The way I do it, if a checklist gets heavy enough that I need to start assigning ownership for each item with a due date, that means the checklist needs to be b

The way I do it, if a checklist gets heavy enough that I need to start assigning ownership for each item with a due date, that means the checklist needs to be broken out into cards. There's a one click feature for this so it's very quick to accomplish. I think of Trello these days like an orchard of ideas. I plant a few idea seeds by rapidly sketching out cards, and some will grow checklists as I copy paste bullets from notes etc. As the checklist items grow in complexity, they fall off the tree and are planted, and so on.. If you're a PMP used to Gantt charts and such, I'm sure that system sounds like some hippy dippy BS, but it works very well on a small scale with a small, mixed-discipline team.