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Kamil_Zenczykowski
July 28, 2022

Private Writing

  • July 28, 2022
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Multiple tools focusing on retrospective meetings allows to control visibility of text written on stickies, see example from metroretro.io, each user is able to control visibility of their own stickies. It’s extremely practical functionality which seems to be missing in FigJam (i wasn’t able to find any plugin/widget addressing this functionality) are you planning to implement something covering this need?

Example

15 replies

June 27, 2024

It would be great to have this. I want our org to stop using Mural once and for all.

Maria Dziedzic-Bialkowska
New Member
March 7, 2025

​@ntfromchicago thank you so much for the See No Sticky widget! Its comes very handy :) 

I have a question: if I’m creating a figjam for the team, and I want them to add the notes in the See No Sticky mode, do each of the team members has to add their See No Stickies? Or is there the way that I can prepare the figjam board for them?

ntfromchicago
New Participant
March 12, 2025

Thanks for your response Maria.

​@ntfromchicago thank you so much for the See No Sticky widget! Its comes very handy :) 

I have a question: if I’m creating a figjam for the team, and I want them to add the notes in the See No Sticky mode, do each of the team members has to add their See No Stickies? Or is there the way that I can prepare the figjam board for them?

You can prepare the FigJam board for them in advance with See No Sticky widgets as long as you don’t click into them to claim ownership.

Once clicked, there is no way to transfer ownership from you to another person. This is an intentional design to make sure your ownership (ability to show/hide) isn’t easily modifiable in a shared Figma file.

Torsten Volta
New Member
July 30, 2025

This is the last piece missing to really transition from Miro. You simply need privacy to do good retrospectives from time to time. People won’t say everything if you know who wrote it.

 

Please add this! It should be quite easy. Simply hide who is who while this mode is active. It can be simply a visual approach. No need to harden this. 

 

ntfromchicago
New Participant
August 4, 2025

Thanks for the idea. I have explored this, and it is a bit trickier than it appears.

Unfortunately, FigJam and Figma canvases are not conditionally rendered. Meaning, you can't have users see different views of the same object. So if I made stickies anonymous that affects everyone. For See No Sticky! this becomes a problem because if you have a group of 10 stickies, you'd have no idea which were yours and which weren't. So you'd have to randomly click on various items to find yours to make hidden/visible, which becomes even harder if someone else moved your stickies.

In addition, even if I did implement anonymous See No Stickies that anyone could show/hide/edit, they aren't truly anonymous. Someone with enough know-how of Figma's file structure could figure out who created a sticky.

I'm opening to discussing it more, but that is the main limitation that makes this feature tricky to implement from a UX perspective.