How to listen to checkbox event that has been insert into ui using `insertUI` in Shiny-R - shiny

Question

I am trying to build a simple To do list app using Shiny, the application is very simple, there's a textInput where I put things I want to do, and submit it, and it creates a checkbox. What I want to achieve is, if I check the box, there will be a text on the right side that says: "you have done XXX", the XXX is the information of the checkbox.
So far, I have managed to figure out how to insert a checkbox back into the UI however, I have problems in: writing the party of the code that once the checkbox is checked, generate a text which says " you have done XXX"
The two main difficulties is : 1. listen to the inserted UI (each checkbox needs a special id, but I can't write logic in the server components that has indeterministic checkbox id. Also, I can figure out a way to extract the content of the checkbox from the server side, the input$checkbox only gives me true or false value.
This is the code I am working on so far, I am wondering if this functionality is achievable using Shiny-R?
ui <- fluidPage(
theme = bs_theme(version = 4, bootswatch = "sketchy"),
titlePanel("A simple todo App"),
sidebarLayout(
sidebarPanel(
# Date configuration
dateInput("date", label = "Date Configuration"),
# Things to do
h3("Daily Todo", id="start", style = "color:grey", align = "center"),
checkboxInput("checkbox","Submit One Job Application"),
textInput("todo", label = "Other things to do"),
actionButton("todoBnt", label = "Submit"),
br(),
br(),
textInput("learnt", label = "Key things learnt"),
actionButton("learntBnt", label = "Submit")),
mainPanel(
h1(textOutput("timing"), align = "center"),
h1("What have I done",align = "center"),
verbatimTextOutput("value"),
h1("What have I learnt", align = "center"),
h2(textOutput("selected_var"),align = "center"),
p(textOutput("summary"),align="center"))
)
)
server <- function(input, output) {
inserted <- c()
observeEvent(input$todoBnt, {
insertUI(
selector = "#start",
where = "afterEnd",
ui = checkboxInput("chekcbox",input$todo)
)
})
output$timing <- renderText({
paste0("Today is ", as.character(input$date))
})
output$value <- renderText({ input$checkbox }) ##this gives "TRUE" value, I don't think it's right.
output$summary <- renderText({
paste0("I have learnt to ", input$learnt, "!")
})
}
shinyApp(ui = ui, server = server)
I have tried to search answer online, but I think the checkbox in Shiny-R is mainly used to filter graphs etc... So I am not sure if the function I want is actually achievable using the langague. Please help!

Answer 1

Instead of inserting each checkbox separately one option would be to switch to a checkboxGroupInput which you could update in your observeEvent. Doing so makes it easy to get a list of things you have done. However, doing so requires to track the things to do for which I use a reactiveVal choices which gets updated each time a new item is added to the to-do list:
library(shiny)
library(bslib)
ui <- fluidPage(
theme = bs_theme(version = 4, bootswatch = "sketchy"),
titlePanel("A simple todo App"),
sidebarLayout(
sidebarPanel(
# Date configuration
dateInput("date", label = "Date Configuration"),
# Things to do
h3("Daily Todo", id="start", style = "color:grey", align = "center"),
checkboxGroupInput("checkbox", label = "", choices = "Submit One Job Application"),
textInput("todo", label = "Other things to do"),
actionButton("todoBnt", label = "Submit"),
br(),
br(),
textInput("learnt", label = "Key things learnt"),
actionButton("learntBnt", label = "Submit")),
mainPanel(
h1(textOutput("timing"), align = "center"),
h1("What have I done",align = "center"),
verbatimTextOutput("value"),
h1("What have I learnt", align = "center"),
h2(textOutput("selected_var"),align = "center"),
p(textOutput("summary"),align="center"))
)
)
server <- function(input, output) {
choices <- reactiveVal("Submit One Job Application")
inserted <- c()
observeEvent(input$todoBnt, {
selected <- input$checkbox
choices(c(choices(), input$todo))
updateCheckboxGroupInput(inputId = "checkbox", choices = choices(), selected = selected)
updateTextInput(inputId = "todo", value = "")
})
output$timing <- renderText({
paste0("Today is ", as.character(input$date))
})
output$value <- renderText({
paste(input$checkbox, collapse = "\n")
})
output$summary <- renderText({
paste0("I have learnt to ", input$learnt, "!")
})
}
shinyApp(ui = ui, server = server)