User Story

As a FigJam user, I often use FigJam to sketch out rough ideas (for example, a “fat-marker” diagram). When doing this, I also often want to add notes or write down ideas for specific areas on the canvas, which may contain multiple different elements.

To do this today, I have a few options:

• I can “highlight” the area / elements I want to note with a bordered rectangle or another element, and then attach a note to that rectangle with an arrow, but this obscures the area I’m highlighting.
• I can draw with the pen tool and do the same thing as the above, but this also obscures the area I’m highlighting.
• I can copy the elements in the area I want to highlight, move them to the side, then add notes there, but this isn’t always super easy to do when elements are grouped or locked.
• I can screen shot the area I want to highlight, add the screenshot to the canvas, then add notes to that screenshot, but if I change the area I highlighted then the screenshot is outdated.

What would be great, is if there was a way to “highlight” an area on the canvas but show that highlighted area somewhere else in it’s own moveable element – essentially a view-box element. This would be helpful because it wouldn’t obscure the area being highlight, and would make organizing notes / ideas easier. This could be used for images as well, for example when doing a quick design review or something of that nature.

Thought I’d share this with the community & the Figma team to see what others think