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Turn off sticky note drop shadows

  • Jayesh Joshi

People I work with (myself included) routinely turn stickies into rectangle shapes, because the drop shadows on the stickies are problematic.

  1. They create a large false margin around the note
  2. The margin is irregular (deeper at the bottom)
  3. They make alignment of stickies unsatisfactory 
  4. Connecting lines float a distance away from the sticky while they attach directly to other objects
  5. It looks old fashioned and clunky! 

Stickies are the unit of thought in Miro, but they display poorly.

Please can we have the option to remove the drop shadows globally or for a board?

Alternatively update them to behave like stickies in Zoom whiteboards so that the drop shadow doesn’t create peculiar margins.

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  • New Here
  • 1 reply
  • March 25, 2025

Hi Team Miro,

New here, and loving your product. Have been a long-term user of Cardboard.it and Microsoft Whiteboard. And must say, Miro is up there now on my list of mapping and productivity tools.

As Gordon makes the case above, it would be great if we are given the option of a strictly 2D rendering for sticky note grids. I, like most, use the feature for thought-jotting and composition, and ideally would prefer a minimal well-defined square that snaps-to-grid, to a Ui/UX rule that make it visually “realistic” with drop-shadow etc. Unfortunately, the Switch Shape Type option calculates the shadow into the measurements whist transforming the notes, and Im left with a grid of rectangular stick notes with uneven inline space between notes along length and breadth  

Thanks


Eca
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  • Mironeer
  • 2087 replies
  • March 26, 2025

Thanks so much for taking the time to submit this idea. Our team will review this and it’s open for votes and comments. 

 

For those coming across this idea, if you feel this would be helpful for you or your business, please be sure to vote for it and leave a comment about your use case to help our team scope this request!

Thank you again for helping make Miro better!


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