diff --git a/e2e/specs/07-checklists.e2e.ts b/e2e/specs/07-checklists.e2e.ts
index dc5d8c8..64e619f 100644
--- a/e2e/specs/07-checklists.e2e.ts
+++ b/e2e/specs/07-checklists.e2e.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { browser, expect } from '@wdio/globals';
 
 import { canvas } from '../pageobjects/canvas.page.js';
 import { editor } from '../pageobjects/editor.page.js';
-import { clipboardText, reloadCanvas, testid } from '../support/app.js';
+import { clipboardText, eventually, reloadCanvas, testid } from '../support/app.js';
 import { bridge, draft, homeSpaceId, query } from '../support/bridge.js';
 
 /**
@@ -56,11 +56,15 @@ describe('Todo lists', () => {
     // ⚠️ The items sit on a layer above the card button, which is why they can be clicked
     // at all — a `<div>` inside a `<button>` would be invalid HTML.
     const card = await canvas.cardWithTitle(title);
-    await card.$('[data-testid="note-card-item"]').click();
-    await browser.pause(600);
-
-    // Toggled back off: the editor ticked this same item a moment ago.
-    expect((await reread())?.items?.[0]?.done).toBe(false);
+    // The rows are what is left to do, so the first one is not the item the editor ticked.
+    await card.$(testid('note-card-item')).click();
+
+    const done = await eventually(
+      async () => ((await reread())?.items ?? []).map((item) => item.done),
+      (state) => state[1] === true,
+      'the row the card drew to come back ticked',
+    );
+    expect(done).toEqual([true, true, false]);
   });
 
   it('offers a drag handle that says what it moves', async () => {
@@ -99,7 +103,7 @@ describe('Todo lists', () => {
 
   it('carries the Markdown Rust rendered, not one the front end rebuilt', async () => {
     await canvas.openNote(title);
-    await editor.toggleItem(0);
+    await editor.toggleItem(1);
     await editor.close();
     await browser.pause(400);
 
@@ -179,7 +183,83 @@ describe('Todo lists', () => {
     expect(progress).toContain('2');
   });
 
-  /** A card shows two items of a list; a search slides the window to the matching one. */
+  /**
+   * A card has two rows to say what a list is about, and what it is about is what is left.
+   * ⚠️ The progress bar already says how much is done, so a ticked row costs a seat and
+   * pays nothing back.
+   */
+  describe('a list with some of its items already done', () => {
+    const partly = 'Partly done';
+    const finished = 'Nothing left';
+    const seeded: string[] = [];
+
+    async function rows(of: string): Promise<string[]> {
+      const card = await canvas.cardWithTitle(of);
+      return card.$$(`${testid('note-card-item')} .item-text`).map((item) => item.getText());
+    }
+
+    before(async () => {
+      const spaceId = await homeSpaceId();
+      const first = await bridge.createNote(
+        draft({
+          spaceId,
+          title: partly,
+          kind: 'checklist',
+          items: [
+            { text: 'unpack the crate', done: true },
+            { text: 'wire the relay', done: false },
+            { text: 'seal the panel', done: false },
+            { text: 'call it a day', done: false },
+          ],
+        }),
+      );
+      const second = await bridge.createNote(
+        draft({
+          spaceId,
+          title: finished,
+          kind: 'checklist',
+          items: ['drain it', 'flush it', 'refill it'].map((text) => ({ text, done: true })),
+        }),
+      );
+      seeded.push(first.id, second.id);
+      await reloadCanvas();
+      await canvas.waitForCard(partly);
+    });
+
+    // ⚠️ The canvas is shared with every spec file that runs after this one.
+    after(async () => {
+      await bridge.deleteNotes(seeded);
+      await reloadCanvas();
+    });
+
+    it('spends its two rows on what is still to do', async () => {
+      expect(await rows(partly)).toEqual(['wire the relay', 'seal the panel']);
+    });
+
+    it('counts the ones it left out, ticked or not', async () => {
+      const card = await canvas.cardWithTitle(partly);
+
+      expect(await card.$(testid('note-card-more')).getText()).toContain('2');
+    });
+
+    it('gives the row up as soon as it is ticked', async () => {
+      const boxes = await (await canvas.cardWithTitle(partly)).$$(testid('note-card-item')).getElements();
+      await boxes[0]!.click();
+
+      const left = await eventually(
+        () => rows(partly),
+        (texts) => !texts.includes('wire the relay'),
+        'the ticked row to leave the preview',
+      );
+      expect(left).toEqual(['seal the panel', 'call it a day']);
+    });
+
+    it('shows its last items rather than nothing when everything is done', async () => {
+      expect(await rows(finished)).toEqual(['flush it', 'refill it']);
+    });
+  });
+
+  /** A card shows two items of a list; a search keeps the matching one among them. */
   describe('found by an item the card does not show', () => {
     const long = 'Deep list';
 
@@ -204,18 +284,18 @@ describe('Todo lists', () => {
       await canvas.clearSearch();
     });
 
-    it('slides its window to the item that matched', async () => {
+    it('keeps the item that matched among the two it shows', async () => {
       await canvas.search('kubeconfig');
       const card = await canvas.cardWithTitle(long);
       const texts = await card.$$('[data-testid="note-card-item"]').map((item) => item.getText());
 
       expect(texts.join(' ')).toContain('rotate the kubeconfig');
-      expect(texts.join(' ')).not.toContain('first step');
+      expect(texts.join(' ')).not.toContain('third step');
     });
 
     /**
-     * ⚠️ The template counts within the window, the position in the note is what gets
-     * written: ticking the first visible box must not tick the first box of the list.
+     * ⚠️ A row is not at the place it holds in the note: ticking the second visible box
+     * must not tick the second box of the list.
      */
     it('ticks the box it shows, not the one at the same place in the list', async () => {
       await canvas.search('kubeconfig');
diff --git a/src/app/notes/canvas/note-card/note-card.component.html b/src/app/notes/canvas/note-card/note-card.component.html
index 2843b12..6727321 100644
--- a/src/app/notes/canvas/note-card/note-card.component.html
+++ b/src/app/notes/canvas/note-card/note-card.component.html
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
       <!-- In the flow now that the card is not a button: the items used to be a layer of
            their own, absolutely placed, because a `<button>` cannot hold one. -->
       <ul class="card-items">
-        @for (item of visibleItems(); track $index) {
+        @for (item of visibleItems(); track item.at) {
           <li>
             <button
               type="button"
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
               [class.done]="item.done"
               [attr.aria-checked]="item.done"
               [attr.aria-label]="'notes.checklistToggle' | transloco: { text: item.text }"
-              (click)="onItemToggle($event, $index)"
+              (click)="onItemToggle($event, item.at)"
             >
               <span class="item-box" aria-hidden="true">{{ item.done ? '☑' : '☐' }}</span>
               <span class="item-text">{{ item.text }}</span>
diff --git a/src/app/notes/canvas/note-card/note-card.component.spec.ts b/src/app/notes/canvas/note-card/note-card.component.spec.ts
index 52a5121..509724c 100644
--- a/src/app/notes/canvas/note-card/note-card.component.spec.ts
+++ b/src/app/notes/canvas/note-card/note-card.component.spec.ts
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ describe('NoteCardComponent', () => {
           .map((node) => node.nativeElement.textContent.trim());
       }
 
-      it('slides its window to the item that matched', async () => {
+      it('keeps the item that matched, and spends the other row on what is left', async () => {
         fixture.componentRef.setInput(
           'note',
           createNote({
@@ -204,17 +204,17 @@ describe('NoteCardComponent', () => {
         );
         await fixture.whenStable();
 
-        expect(itemTexts()).toEqual(['Dry run of the release workflow', 'Tag pushed']);
+        expect(itemTexts()).toEqual(['Changelog written', 'Dry run of the release workflow']);
       });
 
-      it('leaves the window at the head when the match is already in it', async () => {
+      it('keeps a matched item that is already ticked, which nothing else would show', async () => {
         fixture.componentRef.setInput(
           'note',
           createNote({ kind: 'checklist', items, searchHit: { field: 'item', excerpt: 'Version bumped' } }),
         );
         await fixture.whenStable();
 
-        expect(itemTexts()).toEqual(['Version bumped', 'Lockfiles agree']);
+        expect(itemTexts()).toEqual(['Version bumped', 'Changelog written']);
       });
 
       /** ⚠️ The excerpt is clipped at 160 characters and never equals its own text. */
@@ -230,13 +230,10 @@ describe('NoteCardComponent', () => {
         );
         await fixture.whenStable();
 
-        expect(itemTexts()).toEqual(['Tag pushed', long]);
+        expect(itemTexts()).toEqual(['Changelog written', long]);
       });
 
-      /**
-       * ⚠️ The template counts within the window; the position in the note is what gets
-       * written. Without the offset a card silently edits the wrong line.
-       */
+      /** ⚠️ A row is not at the place it holds in the note; it is what it carries that gets written. */
       it('ticks the item it shows, not the one at the same place in the list', async () => {
         const store = TestBed.inject(NotesStore);
         const setChecklist = vi.spyOn(store, 'setChecklist').mockResolvedValue(undefined);
@@ -255,7 +252,7 @@ describe('NoteCardComponent', () => {
         await fixture.whenStable();
 
         const written = setChecklist.mock.calls[0][1];
-        expect(written.map((item) => item.done)).toEqual([true, true, false, true, false]);
+        expect(written.map((item) => item.done)).toEqual([true, true, true, false, false]);
       });
     });
 
@@ -541,6 +538,66 @@ describe('NoteCardComponent', () => {
       expect(text('[data-testid="note-card-more"]')).toBe('+3 autres');
     });
 
+    describe('having more items than it has rows', () => {
+      function itemTexts(): string[] {
+        return [...fixture.nativeElement.querySelectorAll('.card-item .item-text')].map((node) =>
+          (node as HTMLElement).textContent?.trim(),
+        );
+      }
+
+      it('spends its two rows on what is still to do', async () => {
+        fixture.componentRef.setInput(
+          'note',
+          checklist([
+            { text: 'Relire', done: true },
+            { text: 'Deployer', done: false },
+            { text: 'Annoncer', done: false },
+          ]),
+        );
+        await fixture.whenStable();
+
+        expect(itemTexts()).toEqual(['Deployer', 'Annoncer']);
+      });
+
+      it('falls back on the last done ones rather than drawing nothing', async () => {
+        fixture.componentRef.setInput(
+          'note',
+          checklist(['Relire', 'Deployer', 'Annoncer', 'Archiver'].map((text) => ({ text, done: true }))),
+        );
+        await fixture.whenStable();
+
+        expect(itemTexts()).toEqual(['Annoncer', 'Archiver']);
+      });
+
+      it('counts every item it left out, wherever they sat', async () => {
+        fixture.componentRef.setInput(
+          'note',
+          checklist([1, 2, 3, 4, 5].map((n) => ({ text: 't' + n, done: n === 1 }))),
+        );
+        await fixture.whenStable();
+
+        expect(itemTexts()).toEqual(['t2', 't3']);
+        expect(text('[data-testid="note-card-more"]')).toBe('+3 autres');
+      });
+
+      it('ticks the item it drew, not the one at the same place in the list', async () => {
+        const setChecklist = vi.spyOn(TestBed.inject(NotesStore), 'setChecklist').mockResolvedValue();
+        fixture.componentRef.setInput(
+          'note',
+          checklist([
+            { text: 'Relire', done: true },
+            { text: 'Deployer', done: false },
+            { text: 'Annoncer', done: false },
+          ]),
+        );
+        await fixture.whenStable();
+
+        fixture.nativeElement.querySelectorAll('.card-item')[0].click();
+
+        expect(setChecklist.mock.calls[0][1].map((item) => item.done)).toEqual([true, true, false]);
+      });
+    });
+
     it('shows no language badge, a checklist having no format to announce', () => {
       expect(fixture.debugElement.query(By.directive(LanguageBadgeComponent))).toBeNull();
     });
diff --git a/src/app/notes/canvas/note-card/note-card.component.ts b/src/app/notes/canvas/note-card/note-card.component.ts
index 71456aa..fd9ba02 100644
--- a/src/app/notes/canvas/note-card/note-card.component.ts
+++ b/src/app/notes/canvas/note-card/note-card.component.ts
@@ -129,24 +129,39 @@ export class NoteCardComponent {
   protected readonly progress = computed(() => checklistProgress(this.note().items));
   /**
    * The excerpt cannot replace the layer: these are real checkboxes a card can be
-   * ticked from. The window slides to the matching item instead.
+   * ticked from, so the card shows the matching item rather than quoting it.
    */
-  private readonly itemWindowStart = computed(() => {
+  private readonly matchedItem = computed(() => {
     const hit = this.searchHit();
-    if (hit?.field !== 'item') return 0;
+    if (hit?.field !== 'item') return -1;
 
-    const items = this.note().items;
-    const texts = items.map((item) => item.text);
-    return this.windowStart(items.length, this.indexOfHit(texts, hit.excerpt), MAX_VISIBLE_ITEMS);
+    const texts = this.note().items.map((item) => item.text);
+    return this.indexOfHit(texts, hit.excerpt);
   });
 
+  /**
+   * Two rows, spent on what is left to do. ⚠️ A matched item keeps its seat whatever its
+   * state — it is why the card is on screen — and a list with nothing left falls back on
+   * its *last* items, the top of a finished list saying the least about where it ended.
+   * Each row carries the position it holds in the note, which is what gets ticked.
+   */
   protected readonly visibleItems = computed(() => {
-    const from = this.itemWindowStart();
-    return this.note().items.slice(from, from + MAX_VISIBLE_ITEMS);
+    const items = this.note().items;
+    const seats = new Set<number>();
+    const matched = this.matchedItem();
+    if (matched >= 0) seats.add(matched);
+
+    for (const [at, item] of items.entries()) {
+      if (seats.size >= MAX_VISIBLE_ITEMS) break;
+      if (!item.done) seats.add(at);
+    }
+    for (let at = items.length - 1; at >= 0 && seats.size < MAX_VISIBLE_ITEMS; at--) {
+      seats.add(at);
+    }
+
+    return items.map((item, at) => ({ ...item, at })).filter((row) => seats.has(row.at));
   });
-  protected readonly hiddenItemCount = computed(() =>
-    Math.max(0, this.note().items.length - MAX_VISIBLE_ITEMS),
-  );
+  protected readonly hiddenItemCount = computed(() => this.note().items.length - this.visibleItems().length);
 
   protected readonly copyText = computed(() => noteCopyText(this.note()));
 
@@ -180,17 +195,12 @@ export class NoteCardComponent {
     this.selection.toggleChecked(this.note().id);
   }
 
-  /**
-   * ⚠️ The template counts within the window; the position in the note is what gets
-   * written. A search slides the window, so the two are not the same number.
-   */
-  protected onItemToggle(event: MouseEvent, indexInWindow: number): void {
+  protected onItemToggle(event: MouseEvent, at: number): void {
     event.stopPropagation();
-    const index = this.itemWindowStart() + indexInWindow;
 
     void this.notes.setChecklist(
       this.note().id,
-      this.note().items.map((item, at) => (at === index ? { ...item, done: !item.done } : { ...item })),
+      this.note().items.map((item, index) => (index === at ? { ...item, done: !item.done } : { ...item })),
     );
   }