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Mads
February 22, 2021

Quickly go to last visited page and back

  • February 22, 2021
  • 79 replies
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Clicking between two pages is inconvenient – there should be a hotkey for that.

Context — I have components in Page A and need to see the changes I make on Page B. I make lots and lots of small iterations to my design and want to swap between Page A and B quickly to see results.

Solution — A back and forward button (or hotkey) that let’s you jump between pages you’ve last visited and forward again.

      Pinned Reply By djv

      Hey All, thank you for your continued feedback! 

      I’ve passed this topic onto our team for future consideration. Please know that this is on their radar for improvement, but they have no exact timeline to share on when or if it will be implemented. I’ll be sure to provide an update here, if there are any promising updates from the team.

      Thanks again for your patience and understanding!

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      Sebastian_Holzki
      Sebastian_Holzki
      New Participant
      April 22, 2024

      Worst is
      0. having 20+ tabs open (enterprise work default)

      1. accidentally hitting cmd+t instead of cmd+z
      2. closing the “new tab”
      3. ending up on the tab last in the list, instead of the one you have been working on
      4. frustrated search for the tab you worked on
        Tom_Auger2
        Tom_Auger2
        Active Member
        May 10, 2024

        Gotta add my vote here. I’ve inherited a large doc and am refreshing the design system (Page 0) constantly. Right now there are just enough pages that I can mousewheel up to page 0 and then back to the page I was working on. But that is not sustainable.

        I’m so used to IDEs like VSCode or IntelliJ where you have a simple back to previous edit point hotkey. It’s essential for exactly the same reasons.

        How do we get this on the roadmap before my brain explodes!?

          Samer_Jalabi
          Samer_Jalabi
          June 4, 2024

          Come on Figma please implement this!

          Fabrice
          Fabrice
          June 5, 2024

          True, even that would be better than nothing, a proper history navigation would be more general and effective (back and forward buttons like in any browser).

          Julia57
          Julia57
          Active Member
          June 6, 2024

          Definitely need this. For me, it’s not even about time-saving (making it quicker to go back). I often literally cannot even REMEMBER which page I was previously on, so I need to go back, but have no way of knowing where I came from. Happens when I’m working on one thing, the n I spot something that needs fixing, so I go to the component, but sometimes that leads me to fixing something that was NESTED in the component so I end up on ANTOHER page… and 2 hours later I know that I need to go back to the original task that I started with, but no longer know what it was.

            Fred_Tinsel
            Fred_Tinsel
            Active Member
            June 7, 2024

            I found Framehop
            https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1319412441392289036/framehop

            So thanks to @addisonjames for developing this plugin 🙏

              addisonjames
              addisonjames
              June 7, 2024

              Thanks @Fred_Tinsel !
              Reading through everyone’s comments here- I think FrameHop can help solve a lot of the pain points mentioned. It’s free, i just made it to speed up my own process.

              I’m working on an update to it now, so feel free to send me any feedback/suggestions.

                Barbara_Jura
                Barbara_Jura
                New Member
                July 4, 2024

                It would be nice to have a back button when you go through different pages, like components, and then a back button to return to where you were before.

                  thor3
                  thor3
                  July 8, 2024

                  You’re welcome 🙂

                  Franco_Andrade
                  Franco_Andrade
                  Active Member
                  July 24, 2024

                  Happens to me all the time!

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