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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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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!

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

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. 

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

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. 

 

 

This has been an annoying issue for me as well, so I searched for a workaround. As far as I know, Miro hasn’t fixed it yet.

 

For now, my temporary solution is to use BetterTouchTool (or any app that can create custom shortcuts). I mapped Opt+Z (or any key you prefer) to trigger a sequence: press N and then do a left click.

 

So whenever I want to post a new sticky note, I just hover my mouse over the spot where I want it and press Opt+Z — without clicking on the frame itself (because that would only rename the frame instead). I’ve found this workflow to be quite effective.

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