How to use enhanced paste

Paste tables, text, or images from Excel, Google Drive, Miro, or Mural straight into a journey map, where they land as cards across a lane.

Bring content in from outside Smaply without rebuilding it card by card. Copy a table, a block of text, or an image from another tool, paste it into a journey map, and Smaply spreads it across a lane as cards you can then rearrange.

This covers pasting clipboard content into a lane as new cards. To paste a whole lane you copied from another map, see How to copy lanes across journey maps.

You can paste from Excel, Google Drive, Miro, and Mural, among other apps. Tables and text become text cards; images and screengrabs become image cards.

How to paste content into a journey map

There are two ways to start a paste:

• From a lane menu - Open the lane's three-dot menu and click Paste content.

• With the keyboard - Press Cmd+V (Mac) or Ctrl+V (Windows) anywhere in the map.

1

Start the paste

Copy your content in the source tool first. Then, in the journey map, either open a lane's three-dot menu and click Paste content, or press Cmd+V / Ctrl+V.

The lane menu, with Paste content selected

If you press the shortcut with nothing on your clipboard yet, Smaply shows a prompt with the supported source apps and the Cmd + V hint, so you know what you can paste and how.

The paste prompt and its supported sources

2

Choose the destination lane

The Paste content window opens with a Select lane dropdown, already set to the lane you triggered the paste from. To send the cards elsewhere, pick a different lane from the dropdown. The Clipboard content preview below shows the cards that will be created, so you can check the paste before committing. Click Paste to confirm, or Cancel to back out.

The Paste content window, with a preview of the cards

Important: Extra content piles into the last column

If the pasted content has more items than the map has columns, the overflow is added to the last column rather than creating new ones. The window flags this with Excess content will be added to the last column. To spread everything out, add columns to the map before you paste.

3

Rearrange the new cards

Smaply adds the content as new cards spread across the lane, one item per card, filling left to right. From here you can move, edit, or delete them like any other card. For the card toolbar and details panel, see How to add and edit cards.

For a worked example, here's a paste straight from Miro:

How to paste an image or screengrab

Pasting a copied image or a screengrab creates an image card. Copy the image in another app, or take a screengrab, then paste it into the map the same way: from a lane's Paste content menu, or with Cmd+V / Ctrl+V. It lands as an image card in the lane you choose.

For more on working with image cards once they're on the map, see How to use image cards.

Related topics

How to copy lanes across journey maps

Copy a whole lane, cards and all, and paste it into any other map.

How to add and edit cards

Add cards, edit their content, and manage tags, personas, and comments.

How to use image cards

Add an image to a card and adjust how it fits.