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Is there a way to create a sticky (or some other kind of object) pre-populated with the creation date and time? I know this information is available if you right click → info, but I want this info directly on the object text so you can easily compare with the date and time of other objects. 

I’m highly technical, so I don’t mind building this using the Web SDK or Rest API, but:

  1. I don’t know if the Web SDK or Rest API provides the ability to do this, and it’s a non-trivial time/effort investment to find out.
  2. If there’s an easier way to achieve this, I’d rather go that route.

For additional context, non-technical users will be creating lots of these stickies over time, so it needs to be convenient to repeatedly create stickies with the current datetime. My preferred behavior would be to have a special sticky pad, and each time you drag a sticky off it, it’s pre-populated with the current date/time. 

Howdy ​@Daniel Kaplan 

Good news and bad news:

BAD NEWS: In general, nothing out of the box, not as far as I know. Not for all shapes. (Maybe there is something like “smart stickies” so I don’t want to rule out that possibility).

GOOD NEWS: Easy as pie with the Miro WebSDK - and in fact this is the DEMO app that they give you!

For people that don’t know about it, Miro has an incredible developer program - best I’ve seen for a such a huge product like this. Dedicated website. Excellent documentation. Getting started videos. Boilerplate code - even a Python version so you can work with Miro using Python. Then the best part: a Discord site where you can interact with Miro software developers!  No kidding, I reported 1-2 strange things I did not understand, the the Miro developers themselves confirmed it was a bug in Miro!

BAD NEWS: Once you get started it is addictive.

GOOD NEWS: You will be the hero of all your friends because you can easily -- very easily -- build apps that do amazing things!

Good luck!  Ken

 

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