Miro should offer a more writer-centric features that would allow writers to use it for creating stories, books, screeenplays. Lots of writers use Miro but it lacks a lot of readymade tools that would make it easier. If Miro added the following tools, it could become as essential to screenwriters as Final Draft is.
Among the writer-centric tools that Miro could add:
- A “writer’s index card” shape that allows you have to a header followed by smaller text. The header appears in large print at the top. This might describe a big scene ie. “Hero Enters the Castle, Fights Dragon”. Below the header, there will be space for smaller text. Here, you’d write a paragraph or more that elaborates on the scene. The smaller text might even be something that you’d need to click on the card to read. This shape would allow formatting tools.
- A story template for the index cards to appear on. The template arranges Miro into 3 columns: Act 1, Act 2, Act 3. Plus areas for “Characters” and “Comparative Titles” and “Scraps” etc. You could even have different one for genres like Rom Com, Action Film, etc.
- An “export cards-to-doc” feature that not only allows you to convert the Miro content into a Word doc, but where it ensures the content will be displayed in the same chronological ORDER that you laid out your index cards. That way, if you had 50 cards (each one containing a scene) you could build your story in Miro then export to Word. but with the confidence that each scene will appear in the desired order.
