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Isaac Garcia

I use the “N” shortcut to create new sticky notes while I’m facilitating meetings in Miro. 

When I’m zoomed in on a frame, I click in my Miro window and hit “N”. However, if I click in a frame (as I most often do) and the frame is not locked, I end up renaming the frame to “N” without realizing it. All I know is a new sticky note wasn’t created (since the selection box of the frame is invisible while I am zoomed in to add content). 

My request is that Miro would be aware of when I am zoomed in so much that the title for a frame isn’t in view and when I attempt to use keyboard shortcuts to add elements (n, t, s, etc.), rather than rename the current frame, it creates the new element the keyboard shortcut intended. If the frame title is in view, then having text rename the frame would be fine. 

Also, this same situation happens when I am selected on an object (sticky note or text) and it is out of view. I end up changing the text on an object I can’t see, only to wonder why a new sticky note or text box isn’t created from the shortcut. Later, I find out I wiped out text that was meaningful but I couldn’t see when I accidentally changed it. 

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Isaac Garcia
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  • Miro Hero
  • 7 replies
  • June 3, 2024

 


ElvaMiro
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  • June 12, 2024

Hi @Isaac Garcia 

Thanks so much for taking the time to submit this idea and share your feedback. Much appreciated!

Should our team have any other questions, they will be sure to follow up. For those coming across this idea, if you feel it's helpful to have or have additional suggestions, please be sure to vote for it and leave a comment about your use case to help our team scope this request.


Ben Mosior
  • Beginner
  • 3 replies
  • June 20, 2024

This is probably my #1 frustration with Miro at the moment. Happens every single day. I go to use a keyboard shortcut like Isaac mentioned, and it renames the frame. I really wish we could only select the frame by clicking on the border. I love Miro, but this is such a problem for me!


Robert Johnson
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  • 7332 replies
  • June 20, 2024

Happens to me several times each day. While I want to grab a sticky note, text, or shape object and just “start typing”, I could have to double-click on the Frame title to go into rename/edit mode.

This unwanted behaviour currently happens with:

  1. Frames
  2. Cluster frames

But not not happen with these objects that also have “titles”:

  1. User story mapping
  2. Kanban
  3. Code block
  4. Table

Isaac Garcia
  • Author
  • Miro Hero
  • 7 replies
  • June 27, 2024

We could also change the shortcut from just one letter “n” to “shortcut+n” (command+n is used by chrome for new tab). Just something to keep from accidentally typing when trying to use a shortcut. 


Ben Mosior
  • Beginner
  • 3 replies
  • July 3, 2024

My boards are just littered with frames like this. I named them something meaningful, and then come back to this. 😂


  • Beginner
  • 4 replies
  • August 16, 2024

The worst part is going onto someone else’s board and renaming frames - I can’t remember what it was called, and I’ve performed so many actions before I notice, undo is not helpful to resolve the issue. 

The frame name should be a separate clickable entity on top of the frame itself, like an attached text field. 

 

 


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