Before our meetings, we have prepared some “number tags”. These number tags are basically just stylised rectangle shapes with a number in each of them. The numbers usually range from 0 to 10.
During the meetings, we would put these “number tags” in tables on a Miro board. At the end of the meetings, we would sum up these numbers individually for each column and each row. We usually count these numbers manually so it can be a lot of manual calculation work. To make things worse, when we change our mind and move these tags around the table, we would need to re-count the numbers.
I have come up with a hack of my own - hide emojis underneath each tag and group them as one object. So for example, for a number tag with number 5, I would put 5 emojis behind the tag and group them together. The emojis are hidden behind the tag, so this way I can fool people that it looks like a normal tag, but it contains some kind of “digital value”. So at the end of the meeting, I can just select all the number tags in a column and use miro’s counting function to count all the hidden emojis.
This kinda work only if people are not that smart. The problem with my approach is that when people can’t find the tag they are looking for, they like to copy and paste the tags and then change the number on it for their desired value, and this messes up with the counting.
The other problem is that we sometimes have “0.5” tags which I don’t quite know how my hack can achieve this with the counting function.
I suppose for the first problem, I can just ask nicely people not to change the numbers of the tags. But for the second problem, I have no idea yet.
I wonder, if miro can add some sort of function so I can enter some “numeric value” into an object such as the number tag in above example. So the value can be positive and negative number and it can have decimal point, say 3.1416. With these “values” inside the objects, I can then select a bunch of objects and, other than only showing how many objects of each type, it also displays the sum of these “values”.
Not sure if I am making myself clear for my use case, but I think this can be a VERY VERY helpful tool for us.
