Two reports from the same device pass. **The exit is a checkmark.** It shipped as the word "Done" one commit ago, on the argument that a tick in a NOTES app reads as a checklist item to anyone who has used one. Overruled by the operator, and the filled treatment is what settles the objection anyway: a tonal button in the note's own colour is plainly a control, where a bare glyph beside a checklist would not be. It carries "Done" as its content description, so the argument survives where it actually mattered — read aloud. **Starting a checklist wrote an empty item**, purely so the section would have something to render. That left a blank row with the always-present add-row beneath it — two empty fields, and the caret in the lower one. Whether a checklist is SHOWING is view state, not a row in the store: the toolbar reveals the section and focuses the add row, and nothing reaches SQLite until an item has words in it. EditorAction.AddChecklist is gone rather than repurposed (rule 22), which makes the first real item the action that can create a body-less note — a note named from its first item, which the core already does.