Sticky notes

[gwww]

Given the collaborative nature of this tool, having the ability to place notes on the canvas would improve the collaborative abilities.

I would see this as the ability to drop a coloured note on the canvas and to be able to start typing in the note right away.

Implementation wise this could be a coloured rectangle with an initial fixed size and text box. The would be text locked to the rectangle and would have the usual text properties (size, bold, etc).

[lipis]

Basically having a new Text element with a background and stroke?

[gwww]

Nice! Yes. Maybe with larger margins on the background to make it look more like a note vs a part of the drawing?

[lipis]

[lipis]

and I guess they shouldn't be part of any export or anything :) Interesting..

[gwww]

I'd export them as simplest thing possible. Next level is to make export of stickies optional.

[pA1nD]

It could be a valuable feature if the text resizes automatically to fit in the post-it.

[matt-hammond-001]

Another way to get sticky-notes would be to allow text to be placed inside any shape (rectangle, diamond, circle) - e.g. you double click the shape and you can add text within it. The text ideally would word-wrap to fit the bounds of the shape or its bounding box.

Avoids needing a separate tool.

I'd also find this a really valuable addition. I'd consider stickies to be a first-class part of the diagram/canvas, to be exported along with everything else. My use case is using it as a shared whiteboard for planning sessions, where 90% of what goes on the board is sticky notes.

[dwelle]

Another way to get sticky-notes would be to allow text to be placed inside any shape (rectangle, diamond, circle) - e.g. you double click the shape and you can add text within it. The text ideally would word-wrap to fit the bounds of the shape or its bounding box.

You can already do that, plus if you hit Enter while an element is selected, it creates text centered to it.

[vjeux]

You can already double click near the center of a rectangle/oval to write text within in a centered manner.

One thing that I hope we’ll get to is to link shapes together so that if you move the rectangle, it’ll move the text along without needing to select it.

[matt-hammond-001]

You can already double click near the center of a rectangle/oval to write text within in a centered manner.

Ah, I always assumed it was just coincidence and a good aim on my part when I double clicked :-)

One thing that I hope we’ll get to is to link shapes together so that if you move the rectangle, it’ll move the text along without needing to select it.

This is the key part - that the text is, conceptually, inseparable from the rectangle. Creating a separate text label doesn't really make it easy to treat the text+rectangle combo as a sticky-note that you can just move around the whiteboard.

[dwelle]

This is the key part - that the text is, conceptually, inseparable from the rectangle. Creating a separate text label doesn't really make it easy to treat the text+rectangle combo as a sticky-note that you can just move around the whiteboard.

In the meantime, you can select both → rightclick → group selection

[sojusnik]

Is there a reason why this sticky note has a header bar?

I was thinking more of a simple version with some shadow, like:

[sojusnik]

One thing that I hope we’ll get to is to link shapes together so that if you move the rectangle, it’ll move the text along without needing to select it.

One way to implement this could be: If a shape is selected and you use "enter" or "double-click" within that shape to add text, then the text would automatically be grouped with that shape and also word-wrapped.

[AlexStapleton]

One way to implement this could be: If a shape is selected and you use "enter" or "double-click" within that shape to add text, then the text would automatically be grouped with that shape and also word-wrapped.

This is exactly the feature I'm looking for in this tool. The inability to wrap the text inside a shape makes it cumbersome to quickly capture ideas.

[sojusnik]

Another way to capture ideas could be through a mindmap, as proposed here.
Sticky notes are a good candidate for the intended API.

[vmkazakoff]

One way to implement this could be: If a shape is selected and you use "enter" or "double-click" within that shape to add text, then the text would automatically be grouped with that shape and also word-wrapped.

And we also need wrap text inside box. And (maybe) adjust font-size.

[tomdyson]

+1 for this! This is the main thing keeping me in Miro, which does this really well (see screencast).

[locofocos]

IMO the big thing missing here is text wrapping.

Most of the issues people have mentioned so far, there are workarounds that aren't very painful. For people who want sticky notes to look a certain way, they can draw one and save it in their library. Manually creating text and grouping it within the rectangle is doable.

But even if you do those things, not having text wrapping can really be a big pain. Going back to make small changes to the text means manually and painstakingly re-flowing the text by hand. There's really no workaround, so I think starting with text wrapping would give users the biggest benefit at the smallest cost.

Not to downplay the benefit of having first-class sticky notes though! I just think there are smaller victories too.

[itsam]

Hi all, any news on the issue? Thank you in advance

[ad1992]

closing this as we support binding text to shapes now https://twitter.com/aakansha1216/status/1471509326674030592