Why dont you use
$watch('todo',function(.....
Or another solution would be to set the todo.done
inside the ng-click callback and only use ng-click
<div ng-app="myApp" ng-controller="Ctrl">
<li ng-repeat="todo in todos">
<input type='checkbox' ng-click='onCompleteTodo(todo)'>
{{todo.text}} {{todo.done}}
and
$scope.onCompleteTodo = function(todo) {
todo.done = !todo.done; //toggle value
console.log("onCompleteTodo -done: " + todo.done + " : " + todo.text);
$scope.current = todo;
}