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Would a universal board navigation panel be useful?

  • March 13, 2026
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Robert Johnson
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I have been wanting this feature for years, so I thought I would ask the Community's thoughts.

The Miro board — an infinite canvas. Powerful. But increasingly complex. The only navigation tool? The Frames panel — tucked on the right, limited to Frames only. It's been the same for as long as I can remember.

As boards grow in complexity, the question becomes bigger than Frames: what if you could navigate to any object, any location on the board?

Here's what I'm envisioning:

  • A navigation panel in the left/Spaces sidebar — clicking any item pans to that object on the board (think Alt/Option + 2 to "zoom to selection")
  • Search for and pin any object to this list
  • Create board location links (e.g., a Home or Start view)
  • Add any object to the navigation list directly from its context menu
  • New items would default to the object's name, filename, image alt text, etc. — but could be renamed
  • Reorder items freely
  • Any board participant could use this panel — including Guests and Visitors, not just team members or board owners
  • Pin the tab so the Board navigation panel is open on board load
  • Share a link that opens the navigation panel on board load
  • Create a new Slides presentation directly from the navigation list

Here are some mockups to better communicate the idea:

 

What do you think?

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      Eca
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      • Eca
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      • March 13, 2026

      Appreciate you taking the time to put this together and start the discussion, ​@Robert Johnson! I’m excited to see others in the community to jump in and share their thoughts or use cases as well!

      Eca :)

        This is an interesting approach to the challenges of wayfindinig on the infinite canvas. I feel like the Spaces framework is not too far off and capable of your ideas. Smoothing out the partitions between Teams is very compelling to me. My org has many Teams but there are instances where we want to stitch content together across Teams into org public views.

        Other approaches I’ve played with:

        1. Use the Note sidebar as a navigation tool. Write the sidebar note as a guide filled with Hyperlinks to relevant content on the canvas (formats synced from other boards if needed). The user can read the guide and navigate the board elements by simply clicking the hyperlinks.
        2. Leaning into Focus mode. Documents, Slides, Diagrams can be used to aggregate content and force a particular wayfinding experience. I often embed synced diagrams into documents to give that rich feel with the simplicity of scrolling through a document.
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