diff --git a/e2e/specs/07-checklists.e2e.ts b/e2e/specs/07-checklists.e2e.ts
index f51558d..8b034fc 100644
--- a/e2e/specs/07-checklists.e2e.ts
+++ b/e2e/specs/07-checklists.e2e.ts
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ import { browser, expect } from '@wdio/globals';
 
 import { canvas } from '../pageobjects/canvas.page.js';
 import { editor } from '../pageobjects/editor.page.js';
-import { clipboardText } from '../support/app.js';
-import { bridge, query } from '../support/bridge.js';
+import { clipboardText, reloadCanvas } from '../support/app.js';
+import { bridge, draft, homeSpaceId, query } from '../support/bridge.js';
 
 /**
  * A todo list has items and no body: `note_items` is keyed by position, so every write
@@ -134,4 +134,67 @@ describe('Todo lists', () => {
     expect(progress).toContain('1');
     expect(progress).toContain('2');
   });
+
+  /**
+   * A card shows two items of a list. Found by a third, it used to show the first two and
+   * explain nothing — the branch that renders a search excerpt sits behind `isChecklist()`
+   * and a todo list never reached it.
+   */
+  describe('found by an item the card does not show', () => {
+    const long = 'Deep list';
+
+    before(async () => {
+      await bridge.createNote(
+        draft({
+          spaceId: await homeSpaceId(),
+          title: long,
+          kind: 'checklist',
+          items: [
+            { text: 'first step', done: false },
+            { text: 'second step', done: false },
+            { text: 'third step', done: false },
+            { text: 'rotate the kubeconfig', done: false },
+          ],
+        }),
+      );
+      await reloadCanvas();
+    });
+
+    after(async () => {
+      await canvas.clearSearch();
+    });
+
+    it('slides its window to the item that matched', async () => {
+      await canvas.search('kubeconfig');
+      const card = await canvas.cardWithTitle(long);
+      const texts = await card.$$('[data-testid="note-card-item"]').map((item) => item.getText());
+
+      expect(texts.join(' ')).toContain('rotate the kubeconfig');
+      expect(texts.join(' ')).not.toContain('first step');
+    });
+
+    /**
+     * ⚠️ The one that would have corrupted data: the template counts within the window,
+     * the position in the note is what gets written. Ticking the first visible box must
+     * not tick the first box of the list.
+     */
+    it('ticks the box it shows, not the one at the same place in the list', async () => {
+      await canvas.search('kubeconfig');
+      const card = await canvas.cardWithTitle(long);
+      const boxes = await card.$$('[data-testid="note-card-item"]').getElements();
+      // The second visible box, which is the last item of the list.
+      await boxes[1]!.click();
+
+      await browser.waitUntil(
+        async () => {
+          const view = await bridge.queryNotes(query({ search: long }));
+          return view.sections[0]?.notes[0]?.items?.at(-1)?.done === true;
+        },
+        { timeout: 10_000, timeoutMsg: 'the matching item never came back ticked' },
+      );
+
+      const items = (await bridge.queryNotes(query({ search: long }))).sections[0]?.notes[0]?.items;
+      expect(items?.map((item) => item.done)).toEqual([false, false, false, true]);
+    });
+  });
 });
diff --git a/src/app/notes/canvas/note-section/note-card/note-card.component.spec.ts b/src/app/notes/canvas/note-section/note-card/note-card.component.spec.ts
index 17f56c1..8157c49 100644
--- a/src/app/notes/canvas/note-section/note-card/note-card.component.spec.ts
+++ b/src/app/notes/canvas/note-section/note-card/note-card.component.spec.ts
@@ -141,6 +141,110 @@ describe('NoteCardComponent', () => {
       expect(text('[data-testid="note-card-hit"]')).toBe('Push the tag');
     });
 
+    /**
+     * A todo list has no body, so the branch that renders the excerpt sits behind
+     * `isChecklist()` and was never reached: a list found by its fifth item showed its
+     * first two and `+3 more`, explaining nothing.
+     */
+    describe('on a todo list, which has no body to quote into', () => {
+      const items = [
+        { text: 'Version bumped', done: true },
+        { text: 'Lockfiles agree', done: true },
+        { text: 'Changelog written', done: false },
+        { text: 'Dry run of the release workflow', done: false },
+        { text: 'Tag pushed', done: false },
+      ];
+
+      function itemTexts(): string[] {
+        return fixture.debugElement
+          .queryAll(By.css('[data-testid="note-card-item"] .item-text'))
+          .map((node) => node.nativeElement.textContent.trim());
+      }
+
+      it('slides its window to the item that matched', async () => {
+        fixture.componentRef.setInput(
+          'note',
+          createNote({
+            kind: 'checklist',
+            items,
+            searchHit: { field: 'item', excerpt: 'Dry run of the release workflow' },
+          }),
+        );
+        await fixture.whenStable();
+
+        expect(itemTexts()).toEqual(['Dry run of the release workflow', 'Tag pushed']);
+      });
+
+      it('leaves the window at the head when the match is already in it', 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']);
+      });
+
+      /**
+       * ⚠️ The excerpt is clipped at 160 characters, so a long item comes back with a
+       * trailing `…` and never equals its own text.
+       */
+      it('finds the item behind a clipped excerpt', async () => {
+        const long = 'x'.repeat(200);
+        fixture.componentRef.setInput(
+          'note',
+          createNote({
+            kind: 'checklist',
+            items: [...items, { text: long, done: false }],
+            searchHit: { field: 'item', excerpt: `${'x'.repeat(160)}…` },
+          }),
+        );
+        await fixture.whenStable();
+
+        expect(itemTexts()).toEqual(['Tag pushed', long]);
+      });
+
+      /**
+       * ⚠️ The template counts within the window; the position in the note is what gets
+       * written. Without the offset, ticking the first visible box edits the first box
+       * of the list — a card silently changing the wrong line.
+       */
+      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);
+        fixture.componentRef.setInput(
+          'note',
+          createNote({
+            id: 'note-42',
+            kind: 'checklist',
+            items,
+            searchHit: { field: 'item', excerpt: 'Dry run of the release workflow' },
+          }),
+        );
+        await fixture.whenStable();
+
+        fixture.debugElement.queryAll(By.css('[data-testid="note-card-item"]'))[0].nativeElement.click();
+        await fixture.whenStable();
+
+        const written = setChecklist.mock.calls[0][1];
+        expect(written.map((item) => item.done)).toEqual([true, true, false, true, false]);
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('slides the tags it shows to the one that matched', async () => {
+      fixture.componentRef.setInput(
+        'note',
+        createNote({
+          tags: ['angular', 'ci', 'urgent'],
+          searchHit: { field: 'tag', excerpt: 'urgent' },
+        }),
+      );
+      await fixture.whenStable();
+
+      const tags = fixture.debugElement.queryAll(By.css('.card-tags span'));
+      expect(tags.map((tag) => tag.nativeElement.textContent)).toEqual(['#ci', '#urgent']);
+    });
+
     it('keeps the head of the body when the back end quoted nothing', async () => {
       fixture.componentRef.setInput('note', createNote({ content: 'one\ntwo', searchHit: null }));
       await fixture.whenStable();
diff --git a/src/app/notes/canvas/note-section/note-card/note-card.component.ts b/src/app/notes/canvas/note-section/note-card/note-card.component.ts
index 7c16ea2..973ab2e 100644
--- a/src/app/notes/canvas/note-section/note-card/note-card.component.ts
+++ b/src/app/notes/canvas/note-section/note-card/note-card.component.ts
@@ -114,11 +114,63 @@ export class NoteCardComponent {
     return !hit || hit.field === 'body';
   });
 
-  protected readonly displayedTags = computed(() => this.note().tags.slice(0, MAX_VISIBLE_TAGS));
+  /**
+   * Where a short list has to start for the thing a search found to be in it.
+   *
+   * ⚠️ A **window**, not a filter: the list keeps its order and its length, so what the
+   * reader sees is the card scrolled to the right place rather than a different card.
+   */
+  private windowStart(length: number, at: number, size: number): number {
+    if (at < size) return 0;
+    return Math.min(at, Math.max(0, length - size));
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * ⚠️ The excerpt is clipped at 160 characters, so an item found by a long line comes
+   * back with a trailing `…` and never equals its own text. Compared by prefix.
+   */
+  private indexOfHit(texts: readonly string[], excerpt: string): number {
+    const needle = excerpt.endsWith('…') ? excerpt.slice(0, -1) : excerpt;
+    return texts.findIndex((text) => text.startsWith(needle));
+  }
+
+  private readonly tagWindowStart = computed(() => {
+    const hit = this.searchHit();
+    if (hit?.field !== 'tag') return 0;
+
+    const tags = this.note().tags;
+    return this.windowStart(tags.length, this.indexOfHit(tags, hit.excerpt), MAX_VISIBLE_TAGS);
+  });
+
+  protected readonly displayedTags = computed(() => {
+    const from = this.tagWindowStart();
+    return this.note().tags.slice(from, from + MAX_VISIBLE_TAGS);
+  });
 
   protected readonly isChecklist = computed(() => this.note().kind === 'checklist');
   protected readonly progress = computed(() => checklistProgress(this.note().items));
-  protected readonly visibleItems = computed(() => this.note().items.slice(0, MAX_VISIBLE_ITEMS));
+  /**
+   * A todo list has no body, so `searchHit` never reached its card: the branch that
+   * renders the excerpt is unreachable behind `isChecklist()`. A list found by its fifth
+   * item showed its first two and `+3 more`, explaining nothing.
+   *
+   * ⚠️ Replacing the layer with the excerpt was not an option: these are real checkboxes
+   * a card can be ticked from. The window slides to the matching item instead, and the
+   * boxes keep working.
+   */
+  private readonly itemWindowStart = computed(() => {
+    const hit = this.searchHit();
+    if (hit?.field !== 'item') return 0;
+
+    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);
+  });
+
+  protected readonly visibleItems = computed(() => {
+    const from = this.itemWindowStart();
+    return this.note().items.slice(from, from + MAX_VISIBLE_ITEMS);
+  });
   protected readonly hiddenItemCount = computed(() =>
     Math.max(0, this.note().items.length - MAX_VISIBLE_ITEMS),
   );
@@ -161,9 +213,18 @@ export class NoteCardComponent {
     this.selection.toggleChecked(this.note().id);
   }
 
-  /** Ticking from the card without opening the note: the whole list is written back. */
-  protected onItemToggle(event: MouseEvent, index: number): void {
+  /**
+   * Ticking from the card without opening the note: the whole list is written back.
+   *
+   * ⚠️ The template counts within the **window**, and the position in the note is what
+   * gets written. They were the same number while the window always started at zero;
+   * now that a search slides it, ticking the first visible box would have ticked the
+   * first box of the list instead — a card silently editing the wrong line.
+   */
+  protected onItemToggle(event: MouseEvent, indexInWindow: 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 })),