Organizational Folders for Layers

Yes, this. When I work InDesign, I always use a specific layer for notes and annotations. I can hide or lock it so it doesn’t interfere with my design work. I can kinda do this in Figma, but it is a lot clunkier because of the layers are less structured here.

I’d also like to contribute a couple more ideas to your request for better layer organization.

• Photoshop permits color coding of layers, which would be really useful. I’d really like to be able to quickly differentiate the layers I’m working with. One example is to quickly identify the starting (or other) states of a smart animation, where I have a lot of near-identical copies of a frame.
• I’d also like to be able to pin the top-level frames I’m working in. I tend to create a lot of similar frames when I’m iterating a design and I want a way to easily identify the top-level one where I’m collecting all of my finalized work.

I’m pretty new to Figma, so please forgive me if I’m missing this functionality, whether in core or via plugin.

Yes, please! The layers panel easily gets out of hand with large prototypes/screen flows, and I also need to put developer notes, changelog info, and other annotations alongside the screens. Having the ability to put any layer set (single layer, group, frame, etc.) into a folder would be immensely helpful.

This would be great! I can then group related layers/frames together which would make it easier to select and move around. I could do this with by group layers or put them within the same frame HOWEVER I lose the ability to view the internal frames as a prototype on my phone. This would also make the some of the annotation plugins more useful.