How to Easily Un-Squiggle your Lines in Miro | John's Tips 2024W41

Here's a short guide on how to quickly make curved lines less curvy in Miro

Oct 08, 2024

I use Miro a lot. It’s a great tool, and most companies have it.

I also like tidy clean boards and diagrams.

Messy diagrams lead to confusion and incorrect information being passed to the people who need correct information to understand how to deliver the right things.

I’ve wrote a few times now on different ways you can make your Miro boards neater and more useful, which allows you to be more efficient and trustworthy in the information you are trying to convey. I’ll share those links at the bottom.

For this one, its actually pretty simple, but could be one of those “Ahhh” moments, like it was for me when I stumbled across it.

Using this example from my template UML customer journey guide, and focusing on the bold text:

This is messy to begin with but not terrible. But, since this is the source of truth for this project, it changes often and after some changes recently, it now looks like this:

In an effort to clean things up a bit, I now move the boxes to the same height, and I’m left with this big ugly line connecting the boxes.

Your first thought is just to delete it and recreate it, but there is an easier way.

Put simply, you double click all the white dots on the line and it removes the extra inflection points in the curves. Heres a short screen grab of what happens.

Sometimes this is also useful when you just want to make a curved line slightly less curved, instead of deleting the whole thing or making it straight.

Simple right? I think so too. Good Miro.

That concludes another ~~efficiency~~ weekly tip.

Also, as promised, here are some of the other articles that can give you some tips for how to use Miro, or things you can build within Miro with my instructions.