The Stickers category holds around 190 colour emoji and 32 word badges you can drop straight onto the canvas. They are the informal half of a board: a thumbs up on somebody's idea, a BLOCKED badge on the step that is stuck, an arrow pointing at the thing everyone should be looking at, or a few flowers in the corner because a workshop board should not look like a spreadsheet.
Every sticker lands the way a real one would: on a die-cut white plate with a soft shadow, so it reads as something stuck on top of the board rather than drawn into it. It arrives straight; tilt it yourself from the Rotation menu if you want the scrapbook look.
A sticker is not an icon
Stickers and Icons look like near neighbours in the palette and behave nothing alike:
- A sticker keeps its own colours whatever the theme. A thumbs up stays yellow, an APPROVED badge stays green, however you restyle the diagram. A line-art icon takes your theme's colour.
- A sticker takes no text. There is no caption under it and no editor when you double-click, because it says what it says in its own artwork. An icon can carry a caption.
- A sticker is always its own element. Dragging one onto a shape drops a sticker on top; it never folds into that shape's label the way an icon does.
The eleven groups
The category opens on a grid of group tiles, each showing one of the stickers inside it. Click a group to see everything it holds, and use the breadcrumb at the top to come back.
- Badges — the word pills, coloured by what they mean: APPROVED, DONE, SHIPPED, BLOCKED, REJECTED, URGENT, AT RISK, WIP, ON HOLD, IN REVIEW, NEEDS REVIEW, P0, P1, OWNER?, DISCUSS, OPEN QUESTION, NEW, IDEA, MUST HAVE, MVP, NICE TO HAVE, QUICK WIN, TO DO, DRAFT, PARKED, LATER, OUT OF SCOPE, and more.
- Reactions — responding to somebody else's work: thumbs up and down, clapping, raised hands, a heart, fire, 💯, eyes.
- Feelings — the face set, from delighted to confused to completely done in.
- Status — check, cross, warning, red / amber / green dots, blocked, under construction, new, coming soon, trends up and down.
- Direction — arrows in every direction, pointing hands, map pins, a compass, play, and a chequered flag for the finish.
- Celebrate — party popper, confetti, trophy, medals, cake, gift, crown, rocket.
- Decorate — sparkles, rainbow, sun, snowflake, flowers, hearts in every colour, gems.
- Meeting — timers, calendar, speech and thought bubbles, megaphone, microphone, ballot box, brain, coffee.
- Work — bug, wrench, gear, key, folder, package, laptop, money bag, target.
- People — a person, a group, someone raising a hand, a worker, a detective.
- Fun — robot, alien, unicorn, cat, pizza, dice, a game controller.
Finding one
Search by what you mean, not by the emoji's official name. The catalogue matches on synonyms, so "celebrate" finds the party popper, "wip" finds both the WIP badge and the roadworks, and "thanks" finds the folded hands. A badge also answers to the word printed on it. Search always runs across every group, so you never have to guess where something was filed.
Placing one
Click a sticker to add it to the canvas, or drag it out and drop it where you want it.
Drop a BLOCKED or AT RISK badge over the step it applies to. A sticker always sits on top as its own element, so you can move it away again without touching what is underneath.
A sticker behaves like any other element once it is on the canvas: move it, resize it, rotate it, put it in a group or a layer, and it exports with the diagram. What it will not do is take text or take your theme's colours, by design.
Stickers work especially well with a Reaction round in a workshop: drop a handful of thumbs and hearts near the ideas that landed, then move on. Because a sticker is just an element, everything you place is still there when you come back to the board.
Emoji used to live as a category inside the Icons tab, and anything you placed back then stays exactly as it was — a plain tinted glyph, not a die-cut sticker. New ones come from here.
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