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Add annotations to the Comment panel

  • May 26, 2025
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Youngmin

In the design handoff process, we use annotations to communicate changes or emphasize specific specs. However, when the design canvas is large and contains many elements, it's difficult to notice the position or even the existence of annotations.

It would be very helpful if, upon clicking the "comment" button, a comment panel appeared on the right side, showing all comments in a list view that can be sorted and filtered. Ideally, clicking on an item in this list would take the user directly to the corresponding location on the canvas.

I suggest considering an update that adds a "tab" or similar functionality to the comment panel for better visibility and navigation of annotations.

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Albert F. Pujals

Agree! It would be great to have the ability to convert annotations into comments. That way, if you want to follow the same workflow as with comments—such as setting statuses, etc.—it would be ideal.

It would also be awesome to:

  • Have the option to check a box when adding an annotation to decide whether it should appear as a comment or not.


Jonathan_Slavuter

Bumping for visibility – I just discovered annotations (through ChatGPT while searching for a plugin that allows me to attach comments directly to elements). TBH, I’m going to primarily be reliant on annotations moving forward as not being able to attach comments to elements is a huge pain-point for me (they’re so much harder to manage, remove, etc… and they are entirely decoupled from version history). 

Being able to search/filter to specific annotations would significantly improve my workflow.