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I have topics as my lists, i.e – PR, Marketing, Comms
Projects are listed as cards under each heading and in turn each card has a checklist.
I'd like to turn checklist items into cards on a Daily To Do list without removing the check list point on the card – how do I do this?
I agree with your friend about not dividing up into separate boards by type of job.
With your examples such as 'Design ideas' etc, I think they really do fit naturally within different lists on the same Board. It's exactly the sort of usage that Joel demoed in multiple videos about Trello.
The only thing I can think of, to help manage very long lists, is to use Trello's Labels system to put categories on cards, and then use filtering. You should definitely give meaningful names to the default labels.
I wrote up some tips on how to use labels recently.
Having said that, fairly early on the Trello on Trello board got huge, and eventually they reduced the scope of it. So it's does seem to be a well-known problem.
There are only up to 5 or 6 lists that can be viewable at the same time.
So the two options would be to use:
In the first option I would imagine it would have to be something like
Here you would need to add up the points manually (Or create a userscript/extenstion see next option).
In the second option you can use this Chrome Extension to take care of your user points and let cards handle user stories. As you said this can be come unmanageable with next up/in progress/review/ so then you would have to keep the tracking cards to the left and the feature to the right on your board. When a new activity appears on a board ensure it is "bubbled" to the left as the most recent feature update. Assigning members can also ensure nothing is forgotten.
Best Answer
This functionality is not available in Trello.
Trello has integrations called Power-Ups. Have a look at the board utility ones, there may be something there that will improve your workflow, such as the The Card Repeater Power-Up which automates the creation of Trello cards for repeated tasks.