I am surprised that this feature, as implemented in Trello, for example, has still not been implemented (as of December 2024). There are already a huge number of posts about it, like this post here.
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Asana doesnāt have to implement everything, and in that specific case, it might be a feature they donāt want to do. This is only my opinion, as I said above, there are already subtasks to cover your use caseā¦ Adding checkboxes would make things very very confusing, and would hurt accountability because you couldnāt assign those to someoneā¦
our office just started using Asana and many of us would love to be able to ācheck offā some of our tasks within the larger task. clickable checkboxes would be perfect for this. why not at least make it an option?
annā¦d same here, make the checkbox people, senior devās show your powers, build it in 30minā¦
Because the more options you have, the more complex the tool becomes. The more complex, the slower it can evolveā¦
Thatās partially true, because there is much more than just ācodingā you have design, tests, documentationā¦ See š¦ If Wishes Were Unicorns: Why Asana Might Not Have Implemented that Feature Request (and other thoughts about Asana feature development and product strategy) for reference
Lol there is literally a checkbox for comments here!!! 
It is a formatting preference, minimize the risk if a subtasks gets wrongly removed (so many times have seen this happen!), people saying oh the subtask is not showing up in my board, bla bla blaā¦ oh but I want to understand the whole context, I donāt know what I am being asked just by looking at the subtask.
This is for scaling purposes, you cannot always have small teams working so closely in one project at a timeā¦ it is overkill having to be chasing parent tasks, and not having a quick workaround to understand if it has been done or not.
Here is the design haha 
