Private Comments on Prototypes and Design Files

Do you also have a colleague who leaves endless comments on the file? It happens to me too, but many comments could then be just personal reminders or notes that do not actually serve the team’s work.

Wouldn’t it be useful to integrate a function that allows you to add “private comments” that only you can see? perhaps it could have a different visualization from the classic comments, and would not be visible to all.

Can I make comments visible only to myself? I need to note some inspiration or notes when I work, but I don’t want other people to see it.

Hello Figma,
How are you?
I have been using Figma for quite some time and Figma is much better than other tools but I am facing a problem. When anyone makes a comment on my name, that comment can be seen by others. That comment should be shown only to me i.e. the person assigned to it.

But now everyone can see the comments. If you find my opinion good then work on the above points.

Thank you.
Tejas Varsani

We have the same issue in our ORG, Figma please do something about this I need a quick way of taking notes on my design, something quick and simple like Comments !

Comments Feature really needs a rework.
Fingers crossed for some improvements until Config 2024…

Adding my vote too. Would love to leave our own dev-level comments, but it would clutter the Design and Client comments. Please make this happen!

With Invision going at the end of this year, this is now even more important @figma. Can this be added to the list of functionality, please?

If you are the owner of a file, you will receive email notifications for all comments by default. If you are not the file owner and leave two or more comments on a file, you’ll be notified about all new comments that file receives.

I find it a little bit strange that if I tag some people in the file for a quick question afterwards when I leave comments to myself they all start by default to get notified about all the activity to the file. I understand the reasoning of making sure they are involved in the design process but I was using the function to keep track of some internal thoughts AND design feedback from the team that do not need to be shared with the rest yet. I was not aware about this default I just realised that there were people in the file after I made some comments a couple of times without tagging anyone.

Please add this feature to have team vs stakeholder comment visibility! Super useful.

Hey @figma - has there been any progress on this feature? Keeping a separation between client feedback and internal team feedback is really important to us!