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Sticky notes on diagrams

How to add post-it notes to the diagram; Post-it notes on diagram; How to add sticky notes

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Post-it notes/ sticky notes allow you and your users to leave behind ideas, comments, and feedback around the diagrams.

Prerequisites

  • You need to be in the 'draft' version of the diagram. Post-it notes cannot be added to published or other versions.

Post-it notes can be added in two different modes:

Read up on permissions on the Space here.

Add sticky note

From the toolbar menu on the left, drag and drop a sticky note from the note icon. Once you created a sticky note, double-click on it to add text.

Edit sticky note

Editing of sticky notes works differently in edit and in view mode on the draft diagram.

  • Editor in edit mode can edit, move and delete any post-it notes on the canvas

  • Viewer in view mode can only move, edit, and delete their own post-it notes

To edit the sticky note, just click on it. You will see a toolbar with conditional options:

You can:

  • Change color of the sticky note to one of the 18 predefined colors

  • Change font style, size, and other basic attributes of the text within sticky note

  • Tag notes with custom tags to organize your ideas by any dimension.

Filter post-it notes

Right-click on the canvas. This can be done in view mode by any viewer or by an editor in edit mode. You can filter (i.e. show or hide) sticky notes by:

  • User (author of the sticky note)

  • Color

  • Tag

Filtering is not applied to all users that are looking at a diagram. Filtering is only done for the user who is filtering.

For instance, if users A and B are both looking at the same diagram, and user A filters the sticky notes, the sticky notes will hide/show only for user A, not user B.

Conflict management and restrictions

When two users are editing the same note the following rules are applied:

  • Last change wins

  • A change consists of text change or position, size change.

  • When a note is deleted that always wins as an action.

  • When a viewer is editing a note other updates are blocked.

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