Not at all and I will give you a better description soon. Hopefully I will have an easy way for you to implement the preferred method.
Have you a working system now?
So how are you setting the ToDo tag in the first place, or how would you like to?
Apart from my offline wiki (my preferred way) Iāve now got 2 tiddlyhost wikis 
ā but sadly I have neither your example, or FRedās working properly, yet.
Iām adding the ToDO tag as needed, to mark tiddlers that I want to complete.
Iāll let you know when Iāve posted up the mess Iāve made on TiddlyHost (in about 4 hours time) ā right now thereās a snake in the house and dogs going ballistic. I did post my ādraftā TW beginnerās tutorial Iāve been writing, not finished yet. The blind leadingā¦ etc. ludicrous I know, but it helps me learn.
It can be important to hear āWords out of the mouths of (TiddlyWiki) babesā, it is so hard for us crusty decade plus users, to have your experience, even guess, ever again.
My test tiddlers are up - and looking very messy.
https://playground-testing.tiddlyhost.com/
@TW_Tones ā the wiki name is quite coincidental. Iāve since discovered you have something similar.
@Anakowi , I havenāt gotten a chance to read through everything yet, but wanted to mention one thing I noticed on your playground wiki - you are using
$:/tags/Macro;
as the tag in your macro, but it should beā¦
$:/tags/Macro
(Without a semicolon)
@Tiddlybob ā Thanks ā that should make a big difference. Iāll have another crack at it later this evening (Australian time).
I couldnāt find the macro tag that I made, but eventually clicked on the tag to edit the āmissingā tiddler $:tags/Macro ā removing the semi-colon.
Thingās are still not working.
Thank you all for your time. Iām very close to ready to give up. Iāll give obsidian a test run, but Iām happy enough to keep using TW5 at my level of understanding, in the way I have it configured, itāll be ok for what I need (for now).
Remove that tag and add $:/tags/Macro
If you install this system-tags-more.json (6.8 KB) the go to the SideBar > more > SysTags you can see all System tags even if not in use and copy them to the clipboard.
- Search for a given system tag on TiddlyWiki.com for more documentation
- This SysTags Addon allows you to click on the tag pill and see what tiddlers are so tagged and a count is on the right.
Not all system tags may be listed if anyone sees any missing please let me know.
Iām not sure where youāre getting stuck specifically, but @tw-FRedās solution seems to address your stated tag-toggling needs.
Looking at your test tiddler here, the problem you were having with the āRepairs Completeā list just comes down to a missing angle-bracket to close your $checkbox widget. Iāve posted the working code below:
<$list filter="[!has[draft.of]tag[repaired]sort[created]]">
<$checkbox
tag="repaired"
checkactions="""<$action-listops $tags="-REPAIR"/>"""
uncheckactions="""<$action-listops $tags="REPAIR"/>"""
>
<$link to={{!!title}}>
<$view field='title'/>
</$link>
</$checkbox>
</$list>
That angle bracket before <$link to={{!!title}}> was the one you were missing. Since the parser didnāt find a closing bracket where it expected it, it seems to have treated the /> of <$view field='title'/> as the end of a self-closing <$checkbox/>, which was what resulted in the stray tag displaying.
Triple quotes are just an alternate way to demarcate a value, similar to single quotes or double quotes. The main advantage of """ over ' or " is that it can enclose a value that already includes single and/or double quotes - so in this case, Fred used standard double quotes for the values of the $action-listops widget parameters, and triple quotes to indicate that the entire action widget should be treated as the value of checkactions.
If youāre still having issues, please post them here and we can continue to troubleshoot.
ETA: I notice youāre using <$link/> in one place and <$link to={{!!title}}><$view field='title'/></$link> in the other. These are functionally identical, so youāre safe to use the shorter form in all cases, unless you want to specify a different fieldās content for the link text - <$link to={{!!title}}><$view field='caption'/></$link>, for instance.
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@etardiff - Thanks for finding my missing bracket.
Yep, I was testing to see if that was causing the display of spillover ātextā from the macro example (shows up on any tiddler with a checkbox).
Initially I used TW-FRedās solution, both check/uncheck actions, only in the 2nd list. It didnāt work properly. Then I put ācheckactionsā in the first list, and this removes the REPAIR tag. Perfect. Then realised I only need the āuncheckā action in the 2nd list. Iām learning!