Comments

Overview

Comments are threads pinned to the work itself: a block on a Flow canvas, a layer or frame on a Design board, a clip at a moment of a Cinema Studio cut. Everyone in the project sees them live, viewers included, so feedback stays next to the thing it is about.

Leave a comment

1. Press C, or select Comment in the toolbar.
2. Click where the comment belongs.
3. Write it and press Enter (Shift Enter starts a new line).

Where the pin lands depends on the tab:

• Flow: on the block you click, or on the canvas when you click beside the blocks.
• Design: on the layer or frame you click, at that spot inside it.
• Cinema Studio: click the preview to comment on the clip shown there at the playhead. The thread also shows as a marker on the timeline ruler; click a marker to jump to that moment.

A pin follows what it is attached to. Drag a pin to move it. If the block, layer or clip is deleted, the pin stays where it was, dimmed, and the thread says so; Pin here in the thread's menu attaches it again.

Esc closes an open thread; the comment tool stays on.

Threads

• Reply under any thread. Long threads fold: the first comment and the latest replies show, with the rest one click away.
• Type @ to mention someone in the project. They get a notification.
• Mark a thread Done when it is settled, and Not done to open it again. A done thread shows who resolved it.
• Give a thread a Label: Urgent, Needs review or Idea.
• Copy link gives a link that opens the project on that thread.
• History lists every change to the thread, including the text of a comment before it was edited.

You can edit your own comments. You can delete your own comments, and the project owner can delete anyone's. A thread can be deleted by the person who started it or by the owner. Deleted threads can be restored from the list.

The Comments list

Open Comments in the sidebar, or press ⇧C. The list shows the project's threads with who took part, the number of replies and what is new since you last looked.

• Open, Resolved and All pick which threads are listed.
• Search runs across all comments of the project.
• Filter by label, by person (Everyone, Mine, Mentions me), by tab (This page or All pages), or show only Unread or Deleted threads.

Select a thread to go to it: Raelume switches to its tab, brings its pin into view and opens it. The filters you pick also decide which pins show on the page.

A tab with new comments shows a count in the tab bar, in the accent colour when one of them mentions you.

Notifications

• A mention notifies the person mentioned.
• A reply and a resolved thread notify the people already in the thread.

You are never notified about your own actions. Notifications arrive in the bell and as a short notice on screen, and mentions and replies also by email if you have not seen them in the app. Choose what reaches you in Settings › Notifications, with Browser and Email set separately for Mentions, Replies and Resolved threads.

Who can comment

The owner, editors and viewers of a project can all read and write comments. Visitors on a public project link do not see comments.

Comments are not part of undo, and deleting a tab deletes its comments.