Hello Lucid community. My name is Zach, I am a UX designer here at Lucid. I’m trying to get a quick answer to a question.
When you copy and paste someone else’s sticky note, lets say its my sticky so it says Zach Luker in the in the bottom right, should the new sticky note have...
1) the original author (Zach Luker) OR
2) The person who copy+pasted’s name
Why do you feel this way?
the person who copy + pasted
our team’s experience is we copy/paste not for the content inside but for the shape, size, and color of the sticky to fit what we have going on - it’s easiest to grab and then insert your own content - here’s an example - we turned off the author display because it just kept displaying the author of the first sticky in each section
I agree with
It definitely should be the name of the one who copied and pasted the note. We frequently copy and paste stickies to get the same color, format etc. and as of now the “author name” feature is basically of no value for us at all.
I can’t believe this even needs to be asked. The person who copied it. Hands down.
Just came to post a couple of product requests and this was one of them. I do understand the current default behaviour, but do not use it this way most of the time. I wonder if it could be “smarter” though. So perhaps the behaviour could stay as it is, but then the first edit makes that person the new owner? Or maybe copy and pasting an existing sticky comes up with a context menu giving the option to retain the existing author or not.
Or perhaps there needs to be an alternate feature, like maybe a dynamic cloning? The copy could be linked to the original and updates with it? Ability for the original author to lock the content?? So many use cases, it will be hard to determine default/expected behaviour…
Keep up the good work!
Thank you for all the great responses. Looks like its fairly unanimous that people want it to change to the person who copy/pasted. That is not how it currently works today, today you get the original author, we did add the feature that if you right click a sticky that has been copied you can claim the sticky and change it to your name. After the great responses here I think we will reconsider. I will take this back to the team.
Thank you so much for all the great feedback!
I would propose a mixed approach - when the note is copied, the author should stay the same (for example if we just copy multiple notes to further organise them without loosing the original author), but once someone else changes the content of the copied sticky note the author should be updated.
We had another situation recently where the current sticky note behaviour caused an issue.
Someone sent one of our users a link to a board, asking about some sticky notes where they were the author. The user didn't even have access to the board and had no recollection of creating these.
In this case, someone had copied sticky notes between boards, completely changed the note content and it was still assigned to the original creator.
Our preferred behaviour is:
Additionally, some kind of indication such as an icon, popup or “last changed by…” message would be useful.
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