Different Comment Types for Different Use Cases

plus +1. this would be so helpful. specifically i want to differentiate between notes / tasks for myself of things i want to revisit and notes for devs about the design specs.

love the color coded suggestion others have made. and the possibility have having some notes private to me only

I’ve been looking at ways to create a change log with references to discussions resulting in the change. However, there is no way to create comment types or categories. Say marking comments as either: Feedback, Note, Comment, Change request etc.

The ability to set status is mentioned too, good idea too!

came to post the same thing… would be very useful. Could even be arbitrary names for more flexibility

The updates to commenting is an improvement from what it used to be, however, there tend to be a lot of comments and no way to easily categorize them based on the topic and intended audience.

I use comments in a variety of ways:

1. Notes for developers.
2. Conversations with other designers
3. Conversations with clients
4. Notes to myself for future adjustments

With the great volume of comments this presents, it can be difficult to find relevant information. Some sort of categorization that can be applied to a comment would really help in sorting through the noise.

Here is a previous thread of the same topic

There are many other similar ideas around this feature but this post seems to have the most votes so I’ll +1 here. My teammates use the commenting feature to make notes to themselves, and as the person who created the file, I get a notification for every, single comment. While I could ask my teammate to use a plugin or find another way, I can’t deny that commenting is asking to be used to make a “note to self.”

Please consider upgrading the commenting system with the suggestions above or an alternative, native way to make “notes to self.” They’re especially needed during design reviews and comments are the natural feature for it — the only issue is that the intended audience for these comments is <self>.

As a heads up, you can change your settings on comments so you only receive notifications on ones that are most relevant to you.

When using the comment tool in the editor, click on the top-right most icon in the comment sidebar panel (looks like two lines with two circles) and select “Mentions and Replies.” That should at least fix the notifications problem for you!

Thanks for the tip! Sounds like a useful feature but unfortunately, it doesn’t fully address my situation since people that comment on designs may not know who to tag for a particular screen in a file (or forget to) so I could potentially overlook relevant comments if I rely solely on notifications of mentions and replies. So I’m stuck filtering through the noise rather than risk missing an important signal. 😐

+1 from me. Definitely needed! 🤩

If the client has commented, you’re not able to edit the client’s comment but you can react with an emoticon.

This is how we categorise comments.

The one pictured is a dev note. You can include emoticons by starting to type a double colon. 🙂

It’s crazy that this hasn’t been addressed in 3 years. Figma, drop the AI fixation and deliver us a few key collaboration features, PLEASE.