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Hello everyone! I’m working on a new app for Miro called Formulas and I’d love to get feedback from the community here.

The Formulas app brings your Miro board to life by enabling board items to dynamically change their values and colors based on the other items in your board.  

Check out the video below for the full pitch, but here are some examples of what the plugin can do:

  • Run calculations like Sum or Average against the items in your board
  • Create a sticky that changes its background color to red automatically if it has a negative number
  • Make a text block that combines the text of all items inside of a frame.
  • Keep the value of a sticky in sync with another sticky or text block on the board.
  • Count the number of dots in frames as a custom voting exercise

 

 

I’m nearly happy with the basic functionality of the app currently, but I don’t have a clear idea of real-world use cases, so please tell me what you think. Do you think this app is just a fun gimmick or would it help with something you do every day in Miro? Let me know!

I’m almost done with the finishing touches, and then I’ll share private beta links with anyone in the community that would like to try and share feedback / feature ideas.

Thanks!

- Vedran

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This is exactly my use case…..would be very interested in this feature

I WELCOME your app! It’s sorely needed. Yes, you can integrate Google Sheets or MS Excel, but it’s not a smooth process and it looks clunky at best. Having some rudimentary calculative abilities would AWESOME to have right in Miro itself. So a big thank you to you, ​@Vedran.

My use cases are multiple. I provide training and consulting services. In the process I facilitate many strategy sessions with executives, but also do more fundamental stuff at the team level.

An example, in a recent exercise we covered several methods to prioritize software product feature development. In this instance I showed MOSCOW, RICE and WSJF. It was extremely tedious to put in all the numbers, and then manually calculate results. Having your plugin would have been fantastic. Furthermore, it enables opportunities heretofore untapped. For example, if your plugin auto-magically recalculates products and sums, I can now have a great discussion around “what ifs” and nothing will slow me down. I don’t do that today, because I cannot keep subjecting people that pay me to my clunky manual calculations.

Another thing that’s often missed is when people have to sit there and watch me muddle through some manual calculations, their minds begin to wander and I begin losing my audience. That’s of concern, because getting people re-engaged takes time, and time is something I typically am always short of. Google Sheets, BTW, is not the answer, because the aesthetics are horrible. Same for linking to Excel.

I also REALLY liked your demo with the voting dots. I do. so. many. voting. sessions… Especially when I have a bunch of senior decision-makers who are using the Double Diamond to converge on a cogent problem statement and then repeat the process to get to an actionable solution. The automatic and highly interactive vote count you demo is also something I would immediately put to good use.

I hope you can bring your baby to market because I will definitely be an early adopter. Many thanks.

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