Trello – How to Move a List from One Board to Another

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.

I can't tell for sure if you're using the Trello website or the the Trello iPhone app, though I'm assuming it's the web site, given the context.

I recommend you use the app, however. It allows you to tap and drag cards left and right, to different lists, and that works well.

Note that when you click on a card to open it, you can click on the list name, to open up a couple of spinners, to move to a different list, and a different position. However, in my experience, that bit of the user interface is annoyingly buggy, and I gave up using it.

(I just tried it again, and in one of my three attempts, the item I was moving disappeared completely!)