"Rohit Patnaik" <[email protected]> writes:

> Right now, if I have the following: [...]

Rohit, thank you for describing the feature with such precision, and a
clear example, leaving no space for "What do you mean?" back and forth.

I wonder, why not use no check mark for optional items?

- [-] Parent
  - [X] Child 1
  - [ ] Child 2
  - Child 3

Child 3 is optional and can be marked as done with

  C-u C-c C-x C-b C-c C-c

or some shorter key binding, if desired, of course.

If that is not good enough, we also have

  org-checkbox-statistics-hook.

While we could add a new checkbox state that does not affect statistics,
such as "[?]", I am not sure if such a feature would pull its weight.

Rudy
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