How to use the Liked, learned, lacked, longed for template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Liked, learned, lacked, longed for template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Liked, learned, lacked, longed for”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Fill each quadrant on your own first. Then read them together and pick one thing to change.”
Fill in each part
- Liked What did you enjoy?
- Learned What do you know now that you didn’t before?
- Lacked What was missing or got in the way?
- Longed for What do you wish we had?
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Liked, learned, lacked, longed for board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

Retrospectives: Guided retros: write alone under a timer, reveal, group, vote and leave with owned actions.

Start, stop, continue
A quick retro: what to begin, what to drop, what to keep, and one experiment.
Hot air balloon retro
A picture-led retro: what lifts the team, what weighs it down, the weather ahead and where the balloon should go next.
Mad, sad, glad retro
A feelings-first retro: what frustrated people, what disappointed them, what made them glad, and one thing to try.
Starfish retro
Five arms for finer feedback than keep or stop: what to keep, do more of, do less of, stop and start.
Mountain climb retro
A picture-led retro for a long stretch of work: the summit we aimed for, what held us, what fell on us and what to pack next time.
Sprint timeline retro
Rebuild the sprint day by day before judging it, so the retro talks about what happened rather than what people remember last.