Perhaps the whole point of a fairly detailed written checklist is to get relatively inexperienced students to realise that there are a whole lot of things that should be checked/noted/looked at during different phases of flight.
With experience and familiarity on type, I've replaced a written checklist with mnemonics and now subconciously check, (hopefully all) other items.
eg. 'check windsock on final' is now an automatic action and backed-up with what the aircraft is actually doing.