Paste at Cursor

Overview

The Paste at cursor preference controls where Bizby drops pasted content on the canvas. With it on, anything you paste (a sticky note, a shape, a text block, an image, or a group of items) lands at your cursor and is placed inside a frame you’re hovering over. With it off, pasted content anchors relative to your current selection.

The Two Modes

Paste at cursor (on)

Position: the paste is centered on the cursor’s current page position
Parent: if the cursor is over a frame, the pasted content becomes a child of that frame; otherwise it sits on the page
Best for: workshops, brainstorming, and any flow where you want to point at where content should go

Paste at cursor (off)

Position: Bizby places the paste directly on top of the source, so the copy stacks exactly over the original
Parent: the paste inherits the parent from your selection, so it lands in the same frame as the source
Best for: workflows where you want the copy to start in the exact same spot as the original, ready to drag, resize, or restyle

How to Toggle

Open the hamburger menu (☰) at the top-left of any board
Go to Preferences
Toggle Paste at cursor

The setting persists across sessions and applies to all boards on the same browser profile.

When to Choose Each Mode

Scenario	Recommended mode
Building affinity maps, dropping new content onto specific frames	Paste at cursor
Importing screenshots or content from outside Bizby into a specific frame	Paste at cursor
You want the copy to land directly on top of the original, ready to drag elsewhere	Off
You prefer paste to follow your selection	Off

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