LAUNCHED: Generate sticky notes from table data

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April 22, 2021
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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 🙂

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Veronika_Monohan_SHE_HER

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!

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Mike_Burshteyn-Dang

Yes, same here. Very disappointed that this feature has been turned off. FYI, both Miro and Mural have this enabled.

Jess_Meister

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 😭

Dharmesh_Ba

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.

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Dylan_Clendining

To paste Excel table data into multiple stickies this workaround worked for me (although still much more cumbersome compared to what it was before):

Select 1 column of data in Excel and copy
Paste as text into Word, Notepad, etc.
Select and copy all text
Paste into FigJam as text
Select that textbox and run Create Sticky From Text plugin

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.

Joe_Wheeler

Thanks for the workaround. Agree it’s a cumbersome process.

Unfortunately, it also splits text at every period which doesn’t handle data with more than one sentence, or data without periods. You may get more, or less stickies that you’d want, if you’re not careful.

I guess it should possible to edit the plugin source so it splits on new line, or carriage return instead.

Cy11

I have the same issue!
This is annoying, I used to copy tables and paste them into sticky notes to do affinity mapping at FigJam.

please bring back the feature 🥲 🥲

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Melinda_Black

This development surprises me. As a researcher myself, I’m curious if you did user interviews about the feature before making such a change. It’s a critical part of my team’s workflow and has already slowed us down.