With Miro, we are able to copy cells from a google sheet/excel, then paste them into Miro where each cell becomes an individual sticky note with respective colors applied.
This is great for transcription and affinity diagramming during research.
I’d LOVE to see this in FigJam 🙂
Being able to bulk add post-it notes manually and via things like excel spreadsheets for user research
Feature request - It would be awesome if we were able to take a list from a CSV or XLS, and paste it into FigJam and have it automatically populate into separate post-it notes to facilitate easy card sort activities and group brainstorming sessions.
Please merge with this ticket as it is a duplicate
Yes! I do it this way in Miro and this is the main reason Im not switching to FigJam for now. I don’t want to write every cell manually 😂
Concur! This is a super valuable feature. They have it in MURAL and Miro. It is the one thing holding me up on recommending Figma for my enterprise. Would love to be able to copy-paste text rows in/out as stickies. Or at least import/export from CSV/text file. (But copy-paste preferred)
I’d love to have that one!
This would be great!! I really need it.
PLEASE!! Need this for affinity mapping for user research (interview notes into excel cells > jamboard > affinity maps > user insights)
Yup, need it for this exact reason
I’d love the ability to do a bulk creation for sticky notes similar to how I can do it in Miro.
I go into bulk mode and can just type and hit enter to create a new sticky note in the sequence to allow for very natural rapid data capture or brainstorming without having to click to create every note (which slows things down a lot.)
Once I’m done, I can either use the keyboard shortcut or just click a “Done” button and all of my sticky notes get created and placed onto the jam board so I can rearrange them as needed.
I can’t do this in FigJam and it’s very frustrating.
Found this earlier answer for bulk import from a CSV or Google Sheet: https://forum.figma.com/t/bulk-add-post-it-notes-function/2925/9
I’m looking for a way to generate sticky notes from data. There’s a video posted in this closed thread, Bulk add post-it notes function. Referencing this YouTube video.
It seems like the functionality has changed. In the current version, pasting or importing CSV data generates a table. This isn’t as useful, at least in my case.
Is there a way to convert table cells into sticky notes? Or another way to import data with the original functionality?
I had the exact same problem! Now when I paste in cells from a different spreadsheet, it goes directly into a table, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to convert it to stickies instead (the way they used to paste into FigJam). The same thing happens if you import a CSV.
It would be great if there was an option to decide how you want to paste the data in (whether you’re literally pasting or importing a CSV); as a table or as stickies.
Looks like this has also changed the way .csv import works. I can’t generate sticky notes from data files any more 😦
Is there a work around? I wanted to generate sticky notes from a csv full of user data.
I also cant copy from excel to generate stickies, this has broken how we use FigJam as a team for now. There should be an option on how you want to copy the data in, as a table or sticky note.
We’re also facing this issue.
My whole team of research has been using the “paste from excel and turn into post-it” functionality since ever but today it disappeared because you introduced tables!
Now all it does is turn the excel into tables and we don’t want that to happen, because we need to work with single post it in order to do affinity mapping, can you bring back this functionality? Please! 😨
My team uses/prefers the sticky notes too. Currently copy/pasting the table data into stickies smh 😂 I hope they make a work around soon!
I am experiencing the same issue. Please bring the CSV import to sticky notes back!
Help please!
I love using FigJam for affinity diagramming when analyzing data. It was super easy to copy Excel cells and paste them as individual sticky notes.
However, this no longer works. It just pastes a table with text. I tried also using the Create sticky from text plugin, and it also doesn’t help.
I really need this feature. Copying and pasting individual cells is not feasible for my work. I feel absolutely handicapped without this feature. Can you please look into fixing it?
Thank you in advance!
Yes, same here. Very disappointed that this feature has been turned off. FYI, both Miro and Mural have this enabled.
Yes please. This is terrible, we were doing the same thing and I was planning on using this functionality TODAY and now my work will take 100x as long 😭
My team has been struggling with the same issue. We are forced to move tools for this functionality alone. I hope they bring this feature back soon.
To paste Excel table data into multiple stickies this workaround worked for me (although still much more cumbersome compared to what it was before):
The plugin won’t work with the new FigJam tables so you have to make sure you’re pasting as text with the appropriate breaks.
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