How this all works.
A good checklist is just someone’s hard-won experience, written down so you don’t have to learn it the hard way — the surgeon’s pause before the first cut, the pilot’s walk around the plane. This site collects them for the rest of us: tick the steps off right on the page, see where each bit of advice came from, and trust that someone’s keeping it up to date.
Where the checklists come from
An AI writes them, and we’re upfront about that. It researches each topic against sources worth trusting — government agencies, the people who actually make the rules, established expert groups — and lists every one it used, so you can check its work. Nothing gets published until it clears two bars: it has to be safe (nothing that could hurt someone or help them do harm) and it has to be good (real sources, a genuine sense of what matters most, and not a repeat of something we already have).
Then we keep an eye on it. An AI librarian re-reads the sources behind every checklist on a schedule, and when one of them changes something the checklist says, it makes a small, careful fix — it’s only allowed to edit words that are actually there, and every change is saved so you can see what happened and when. Your suggestions get the same treatment: checked against the sources, and used when they hold up.
The short version and the long one
Every checklist comes both ways. Essential shows only the steps you really shouldn’t skip — the ones where getting it wrong is hard to undo. Thorough is everything. It’s one checklist either way, so flip between them whenever you like and your ticks come with you.
Helping out
You don’t need an account. If something on a checklist looks off — or you think we’re missing one altogether — hit suggest an edit on any checklist and tell us in your own words. Everything you send gets read and held to the same bar as the rest: complete, correct, current.
What these aren’t
These checklists are a helpful starting point, not professional advice. They’re not medical, legal, financial, or safety advice, and no checklist knows your particular situation. When something really matters — your health, the law, your money, your safety — please check the steps against the sources we list and talk to someone qualified.
We try hard to keep every checklist complete, correct, and current, and each one tells you where its advice came from. But rules and official guidance change, sometimes faster than anyone can keep up with. Trust your own judgment too. Everything here is offered as-is, with no guarantees, and we’re not affiliated with or endorsed by the organizations we cite.
If something looks wrong, please tell us — suggest an edit on any checklist goes straight to the librarian, and it genuinely helps.