Make Dev Mode Annotations Visible to All

Any progress here?

I doubt the Figma Product team look at these forms at all.

I am speechless. 

I am working in a huge hand-off for the development team and basically only the Frontend developers have access to my notes. The PMs, BE, no one else but us can see. I see that I had the same problem as my colleagues, I spend 2 days adding annotations and now I will have to do it all over again and go back to put notes on screen so everyone has access and the PMs can write the tickets. 

This should be more visible from the tool, that only paying users have access before we spend time using it. 

No, they prefer to work on new cool stuff instead of fixing the basics… unfortunately...

It’s simply not a useful tool. Instead I added a annotation component to a utility library that I use instead, in this way all see it.

I will do that! Thanks for the tip. What I did also to minimise the issue with the huge hand-off I just finished was to use the AI Agent to generate all notes on the screen and add pins where they belong to. Not the most elegant solution but it works. Luckily they are not consuming tokens, so I could do it for the whole file.

There the agent was very helpful, still need to get used to use the Agent, it’s a new way of thinking.

+1 as well. Annotations requiring a dev seat is not ideal and definitely needed to be viewable by everyone! This shouldn’t require a dev seat!

2 years later and this is still a much needed improvement, Annotations are awesome but mostly useless if not shareable with View users..

2 years since the launch of this incredible and useless tool... since, after all, no one is going to pay a fortune just to read annotations, such as the PM (Product Manager), PO (Product Owner), Customer PO (Customer Product Owner), BA (Business Analyst), SM (Scrum Master), Dev (Developer), QA (Quality Assurance), Marketing (Marketing Team), etc...

Hi guys !  just thought to add a +1, plus a workaround for anyone who's still experiencing this.

​@aaronjellis point about dispersed documentation is something i’ve also experienced :) 

I built Annotations Manager,  a Figma plugin which adds annotations as real layers on the canvas so anyone can view them, you can also export the annotations if you need add them to a document or ticket.

It's a workaround, not a substitute  native visibility would still be the better outcome and I'd like to see it ship. Happy to answer questions if useful.

Here’s an image of how the annotations looks on the canvas (ps. you can customise the colour based on the type of annotation you add) and yes it does move when you drag frames around the canvas :) 

Here’s the link: https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1588019164844957413

Hi guys !  just thought to add a +1, plus a workaround for anyone who's still experiencing this.

​@aaronjellis point about dispersed documentation is something i’ve also experienced :) 

I built Annotations Manager,  a Figma plugin which adds annotations as real layers on the canvas so anyone can view them, you can also export the annotations if you need add them to a document or ticket.

It's a workaround, not a substitute  native visibility would still be the better outcome and I'd like to see it ship. Happy to answer questions if useful.

Here’s an image of how the annotations looks on the canvas (ps. you can customise the colour based on the type of annotation you add) and yes it does move when you drag frames around the canvas :) 

Here’s the link: https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1588019164844957413

Looking very interesting, I will take a look. I did a component in my library but it’s not that sophisticated as yours.