# RTF export doesn't honor indented todo lists

**URL:** <https://community.bear.app/t/rtf-export-doesnt-honor-indented-todo-lists/14367>\
**Category:** Bear Bug Report\
**Tags:** bug, export\
**Created:** [December 4, 2024, 10:16am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/rtf-export-doesnt-honor-indented-todo-lists/14367 "2024-12-04T10:16:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![HvdG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f9ae1b/32.png) [@HvdG](https://community.bear.app/u/HvdG)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 10:16am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/rtf-export-doesnt-honor-indented-todo-lists/14367/1 "2024-12-04T10:16:04Z")

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- **Bear Version** : 2.3.6
- **OS Version** : macOS 15.1.1
- **What were you doing** : Exporting part of a note as RTF
- **What happened** : Todo list’s indented items wasn’t indented in the RTF
- **What did you expect to happen** : Indented items in RTF, too

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/bear/original/2X/4/4d3f2319303836ae271521b860d3fb3b56a563de.png)  
 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/bear/original/2X/b/bb413c7bdfe451b668a1f7926ebdb07103649ac2.png)

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**Author:** ![trix180](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/trix180/32/588_2.png) [@trix180](https://community.bear.app/u/trix180)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 1:55pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/rtf-export-doesnt-honor-indented-todo-lists/14367/2 "2024-12-04T13:55:00Z")

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What’s the app you pasted the rich text into? I get the desired result if I paste it into TextEdit or Pages and I suspect this is the target app’s fault.

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**Author:** ![HvdG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f9ae1b/32.png) [@HvdG](https://community.bear.app/u/HvdG)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/rtf-export-doesnt-honor-indented-todo-lists/14367/3 "2024-12-04T15:21:06Z")

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An obscure little Apple app called Mail.app…

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**Author:** ![trix180](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/trix180/32/588_2.png) [@trix180](https://community.bear.app/u/trix180)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/rtf-export-doesnt-honor-indented-todo-lists/14367/4 "2024-12-05T15:36:23Z")

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If I copy the content of this TextEdit file into Mail’s composer you can see the 2 lists are treated differently while having the same indentation. I can also see issues when checkboxes are copied from Notes to Mail.

[test.rtf.zip](https://community.bear.app/uploads/short-url/2yg7pt2R30pWvzzzW0pDZduW1wT.zip) (1.3 KB)

I’ll report this to Apple.