Improving the Comments feature

[Jacky_J]

Hi! I have a list of ideas for improving the Figma comments feature overall (generally pertains to both the old and new UI). Would love to hear what others think about these suggestions! Hope I’m not beating a dead horse if these feedback items have already been extensively documented :

1. **Bring back the left/right navigation capability within comment pop-ups (specifically applies to the new UI) ** - I loved this feature in the old UI, and I noticed this was missing in the Figma redesign. I’m not sure why this got taken away, because I really liked being able to press left/right to quickly navigate between comments.
2. When typing/editing a comment, don’t submit comments when the user presses “enter” - I don’t like having to remember to hold down the shift key while pressing enter in order to start a new line. I’ve accidentally saved comments prematurely more times than I can count, and it can get frustrating when you’re trying to type a long comment. I noticed Slack has a setting in their “Preferences” menu that lets you choose which keyboard key(s) will submit your message: “Enter” or “Shift+Enter”.
3. Ability to create multi-level bullet/number lists - My UX design team uses Figma comments to add annotations for the developers, since it’s way easier to track updates/changes during continuous revision/feedback cycles.
4. Ability to save drafts of unfinished comments. - It would be nice if there was a way to save your unsaved comments in some type of “drafts” tab in the Comments panel. That way, if you have to navigate away to cross-reference something related to the comment you’re writing, you don’t have to copy+paste your in-progress comment into a separate notes app/document to avoid the risk of losing all your work.

[Celine_Figma]

Hey there! Thanks for sharing your detailed feedback to the community here!
Some ideas have already some discussions in the community, feel free to vote up the idea there, this helps our team to gauge the overall interest in the Forum. I’ve also linked your topic with the similar one below:

"Enter" functionality on comments

Allow customizing the behavior of “Enter” when writing comments. I would love it to just go to another line and require clicking the “Send” icon, or pressing (⌘ + Enter) to send the comment. I am constantly sending half-finished comments.

Save Draft of Comments Functionality

Did you allready experience the frustration of typing out a comment, then needing to check the name of a frame or another detail outside the comment section, only to lose their entire comment? Ideas When a user begins typing a comment, the system should automatically save a draft of the comment at regular intervals (e.g., every 10 seconds). If the user navigates away from the comment section or the page, the draft should be preserved and restored when they return…

[hollye_westbrook]

We’ve been using the comments for notes to our dev team, i.e. links, and alt text. With email waves, many of these links are the same, but go to multiple developers. Comments copying over with a frame would be a huge time saver, as we’re marking up a lot of the same info repeatedly. Is this a functionality we can look forward to or should we find a workaround?