Same here.
It seems far more in line with Dynalist to let people decide for themselves what is and is not a checklist item.
Just started trying out Dynalist and this is the first negative thing I noticed.
I came to this forum to make this same exact suggestion, and looks like the developers are already working on it. Awesome.
Edit: actually looks like this was posted back in 2017ā¦ any plans to still implement this feature?
Hmm the unresponsiveness of the support/development team is certainly not inspiring confidence in me to make the switch from Workflowy. Guess Iām sticking with Workflowy Pro for nowā¦
Sorry about the late reply!
We did plan to fix this since 2017, but itās a pretty complicated issue with added migration complexity as well. Recently we realized thereās a better solution to this problem, and this time I think weāre closer to making this possible than ever. Stay tuned!
Hi @Erica
Any news on that? I would also love to see an option to having checkboxes only on the same level of indentation.
Thanks, Eberhard
Hopefully soon, although I donāt think the new behavior would be to have it work on the same level of indentation.
Related poll: Desired behavior when adding a checkbox
This is now implemented: https://blog.dynalist.io/psa-checkbox-revamp/
Thank for more flexibility with checkboxes. However it has a big drawback. I collect tasks and ideas in different lists without any checkbox. Then there is a list for today where checkbox for childrens was activated. This was very nice. When I moved an item to the todo list it automatically became a task with checkbox.
With the new implementation i need to do all the checkbox stuff manually. 
Can we get back a way of explicit listes with checkboxes, where all children created or moved into get a checkbox attached? Can there be an explicit non-checkbox-lists where the checkbox is automatically removed from the checkbox?
Unfortunately this seems to need a new property for lists in current implementation, dont it?
I donāt think so, unfortunately. Having both checklist and checkbox is too confusing in the app.
The workaround would be to do a āadd checkbox to childrenā on the parent from time to time, or add the checkbox before sending it off.
Again I really welcome the possibility to change the checkbox per item by will.
But I tried it out for a while now. Not having a checkbox-list is really annoying for me. Moving items from my Backlog to the TodoList, i need to check every item indivudally now. The workaround to use the āadd checkbox to childrenā time by time is very unconvinient.
I wonder, If I am the only, who is uncomfortable with the changed behaviour?
But I have an idea, that could work to introduce checklists again while keeping the individual possibilities. I will create a new feature request.