LAUNCHED: Generate sticky notes from table data

Agreed, but it’s the only thing I can find that works at all after Figma broke what I consider core functionality.

Thanks for the workaround. But in my case, a tedious alternative to a valued core feature of FigJam

I run in the same issue. The easy copy past functionality of Google sheets rows to sticky notes speeds up my synthesis process extremely. And I consider it as a core function.

The possibility to create tables is also nice and may useful. But in the case of creative workflow in the creative synthesize process, not useful and slow-down the process.

Please provide an easy-to-use workflow to create sticky notes, as it was a possible before introducing the FigJam tables.

As an Idea - Great new Sticky Note > Past clipboard data (sheet rows) > bulk, great several Stickies. If you just past clipboard data without any selection, create a new table or add rows when a table is selected.

Thank you for taking this topic seriously.

I really hope the option to convert cells into sticky notes is brought back. Using a plugin doesn’t properly always and it sucks!

I have found a workaround that’s a bit more reliable. At least, it respects the data better than the plug-in mentioned above. However, it’s EVEN more cumbersome. It uses Figma and two plug-ins, before getting into FigJam.

Get ready for pain…

1. Create a post-it component in Figma.
2. Save the spreadsheet as a .csv file
3. In Figma, use the Bulk Component Instancer plug-in. This will create all the empty post-its, but will not respect the .csv data. It doesn’t handle quotes properly so, it can’t escape commas, new lines, etc. It will probably create too many post-its, but better too many than too few.
4. Next save the spreadsheet as an .xlsx
5. Select the post-its and run the Google Sheets Sync plug-in. This WILL respect the data properly, but it can’t create anything.
6. Check the last post-its and delete the duplicates by hand.
7. Copy and past into FigJam.

All in all, a total pain in the ass, but might help if you’re in a total fix.

This is tragic! I am just starting to synthesize UX research from 19 user tests. The notes are in Excel because that has always worked like magic. Now I face the prospect to creating around 1000 individual sticky notes by copying and pasting. Please bring this feature back! It impacts a lot of your users.

It looks like Mural works for copying and pasting from Excel to create individual sticky notes. It’s a pain to switch apps at this point, but the time savings makes it worth it until Fig Jam brings back this feature

This didn’t work for me

Being able to copy+paste from Google sheets and automatically create sticky notes for research analysis is 95% of my use case for FigJam. Please reenable this critical feature!

This feature is absolutely crucial to my workflow when synthesizing research.

We’ve just switched our organization completely from Mural to FigJam and I’m not being melodramatic when I say this feature is important enough to switch back to Mural for.