Sticky notes for Figma Stop Losing Feedback. Leave Notes That Get Read.

Feedback buried in Slack dies. Notes placed on the Figma canvas live with the design, where your team actually sees them.

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Notely

Filter Notes ...Design reviewHero headline: try the shorter oneDavid Zerbe · just nowUse the brand blue on all CTAsRene Schulz · 2 min agoCheckout copy approvedraiken · 5 min agoAdd an empty state hereDaniel Schulz · 12 min agoReady for handoffRene Schulz · 1 h ago

From the Figma Community

“The plugin works perfectly! I recommend it to everyone!”

— MainCost, via Figma Community

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Made for: Design reviews, handoff notes and reminders next to the work.
First step: A Figma file you can edit. Open the example file to explore note creation and organization.
Your options: Start with the Lite tools. Some actions have in-plugin limits or require a paid upgrade.

Keep Context with Design

Place feedback beside the design it refers to.

Cut Feedback Cycles

Provide clear, actionable notes on the canvas to reduce review times.

Branded & Consistent Notes

Use custom templates to maintain brand consistency and streamline your feedback process.

AI on Your Notes

Summarize, rewrite and group notes, or build a retro, 2×2 or empathy map with your own AI provider.

Never Lose Important Feedback

Keep feedback on the canvas and find it again in the note list.

Keep notes close to the work

Open Notely from Figma Actions and add a note beside the work.

A Figma canvas with the Checkout / Cart design: David Zerbe's cursor beside his new yellow Notely note, Guest checkout first, selected while he writes it; beside it, the Notely editor with the note's title, text and colours. — Drawn for this page.

Find the feedback you need.

Search, filter and sort your notes, then jump to one on the canvas.

Notely widened to a board and filtered to this page's yellow, blue and purple notes: six notes such as Guest checkout first and Keep carts for guests?, each with its author and time, and a dot on the filter button; beside it, the filter menu with Show only active page on and the three colours picked.

Notes that look like your team.

Knewave on lilac, for notes that read as if written by hand.

A Notely note styled in the Knewave handwriting font on lilac, over an abstract painting. — Handwritten, set in Knewave.

AI that works on your notes

Optional, and with the provider you choose: Groq, OpenAI, Google Gemini, or a local model in LM Studio or Ollama.

Ask about notes, frames and screenshots

Select notes or a frame, pick a quick prompt or write your own, and paste or drop a screenshot if it helps. Answers land on the canvas as notes. Notes from frame turns a frame into up to twelve notes, and Get design feedback reviews its layout, hierarchy, spacing and UX. How Ask AI works

Workshop boards in one click

Sprint Retro (Rose, Thorn, Bud and Action Items), 2×2 Prioritize by impact and effort, Empathy Map, How Might We questions, and Flow & Hierarchy charts. Each builds its own layout from your notes, a frame or a short prompt. Build a workshop board

Brainstorm maps

Turn a prompt, your notes or a frame into a mind map of notes, with branches and connectors laid out on the canvas.

Rewrite, summarize, group

Select several notes and fix grammar, switch to a professional tone, shorten them or improve and fact check, all at once. Summarize them into new notes, or group them by topic with a header note per group. Summarize, group and rewrite

Your keys, your models

Pick a text and a vision model per provider and see each model's token pricing. Give the AI a Document Context once, and every request knows what the project is about. Set up AI in Notely

Or leave it off

Notes, filters, import and export work without any AI. Switch the AI features off and their buttons disappear.

Pro Version,
aka Buy me a Coffee

Support future development and unlock extra features like Minimal UI, emoji support, and custom scan depth settings.

Notely board in Minimal UI with a Pro licence: each note as a colour dot, title, text and author, three with an emoji, such as Guest checkout first by David Zerbe; beside it, UI Settings with Emoji and Minimal UI on.

Built for Teams

Notely helps teams stay aligned and communicate effectively across design projects.

A Figma canvas with the Checkout / Payment design and notes from four editors, each with their cursor: a question from Rene Schulz, an observation from Daniel Schulz, a next step from David Zerbe and an approval from raiken. — Drawn for this page.

From the community

"As a developer, I used to spend hours hunting down design decisions. With Notely, all the context I need is right there in the file. It's saved our team countless hours."

"The developer is the best! Contacted him and fixed everything! Guys! The plugin works perfectly! I recommend it to everyone!"

"very useful, thanks!"

Pricing Plans

Start creating. Upgrade when you need more.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about the plugin.

What is Notely for Figma?

Notely is a plugin by David Zerbe (RAIKEN) for placing notes on the canvas and organizing them in a searchable list. It can be used for review feedback, handoff context and personal reminders.

How do I install Notely?

Open the Notely Figma Community page using the Open in Figma button, then run it in a file you can edit. The quickstart and linked playground provide a starting example.

Is there a free starting point?

Yes. Notely has Lite tools and paid upgrades. Some actions have usage limits; the plugin shows their current availability. Pro is one purchase on this page: pay what you want, from €4.99.

Is Notely a subscription?

No. Pro is a one-time purchase: pay what you want, from €4.99, with no device limit. The checkout shows the license terms before you pay.

How is a Notely note different from a Figma comment?

A Notely note is editable content on the canvas that you can find through the plugin list. Figma comments provide discussion threads. Choose the format that fits the review rather than treating either as a replacement for every collaboration task.

How do I find a note in a large file?

Use the note list to search and filter, then select a note to navigate to its canvas position. The selected page and scan settings affect which notes are available.

Can I import notes from another tool?

Yes. The importer reads Miro, Asana and Jira exports, Text2Note files and Notely CSVs, and shows a preview before anything is created. Availability depends on the plugin access level; imports are not continuous synchronization.

Does Notely have AI features?

Yes, optional ones. Ask AI about selected notes, a frame or an attached screenshot; summarize, group and rewrite notes; get design feedback on a frame; and build a brainstorm map or a workshop board such as a Sprint Retro, 2×2 Prioritize or Empathy Map.

Which AI providers does Notely work with?

Groq, OpenAI and Google Gemini with your own API key, or a local model through LM Studio or Ollama. You can pick a text and a vision model per provider.

Can I use Notely without AI?

Yes. Notes, filters, import and export work without a provider, and you can switch the AI features off to hide their buttons.

Can another person edit the notes?

They need the appropriate Figma file permissions to edit canvas content. Sharing a link does not grant edit access automatically.

Should I use the Notely plugin or the Notely Sticky Widget?

The Notely Sticky Widget is a separate Figma widget: each note is an object on the canvas in Figma or FigJam, edited from the note itself and synced for everyone viewing the file. The Notely plugin described on this page adds the searchable note list, imports, a paid Pro and optional AI features, and also runs in Figma Slides.

Release Notes & Changelog

Recent product updates and improvements.

V108.12 LATEST

Ask AI message box, workshop boards and simpler links

Ask AI takes screenshots and sends with Enter, workshop boards get their own layouts, and links are simpler.

Attach, paste or drop screenshots into Ask AI and send with Enter.
Workshop boards: Sprint Retro, 2x2 Prioritize, Empathy Map and Flow & Hierarchy each build their own layout.
Links: paste a link to add it and rename what the note shows.
Changing a note's colour, in Notely or in Figma's properties panel, no longer empties its links.

V108.11

Images keep their own proportions

Images are no longer cropped, and a note holds up to six.

Every image keeps its own proportions: wide screenshots stay wide, tall ones stay tall.
Up to six images per note.

V108.10

Brainstorm mindmap and batch grammar fixes

A new AI brainstorm mode and faster grammar corrections.

Brainstorm Mindmap: generate a visual mindmap from any prompt, with branches, ideas and connectors laid out on the canvas.
Batch grammar correction: fix grammar across several selected notes at once.
Professional tone: a correction mode that rewrites your notes in a polished, professional voice.

V108.9

AI can now group notes directly on the canvas.

Cluster notes: Selected notes are grouped and arranged on the board automatically
Follow your intent: Group by topic, color, caption, or similar criteria
More reliable: Local fallback keeps grouping working if the AI provider is unavailable

V108.8

Choose your model

Pick a preferred model per provider and use newer models.

Pick a preferred text model per provider under Advanced options.
Newer models such as GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Flash are available.

V108.7

Note creation & font quality improvements ✨

Place next note: Use arrows (↑→↓←) in "Create another note" to place the next note left, right, above, or below. No manual repositioning.
Font weight preserved: Black and ExtraBold now keep their weight after edits.
Safer font loading: If a font variant is unavailable, Notely uses the closest match.

V108.6

Resilience & internal cleanup

Note recognition: Is now more resilient to renamed note layers and other out of line occurrences
Page grouping: Notes no longer appear under "Unknown Page" after restart

V108.5

I reworked the note scanner from scratch to run much smoother with less system stress .⚡ Any issues? Let me know 🙏

Pruned walk: Frames are no longer traversed during scans: only sections & groups are checked, cutting scan time drastically
Fixes: Resolved an issue where note changes weren't reflected after scanning

V108.4

Faster first launch & filter fixes

Cold start: Notes on your current page appear instantly, rest loads in background
Smoother UI: No more freezes when opening large files for the first time
Faster scanning: Note detection is quicker
Filters: Toggling filters no longer causes freezes

V108.3

Patch update: startup and refresh reliability

Startup: Warm-cache launch skips automatic all-page background scan
Reopen freshness: Active page refresh now runs after opening from cache
Scan planner: Better page-scope control (skip unknown pages on warm cache)
Images: Detail-view on-demand loading only; no modal image prefetch on startup
Stale cleanup: Deleted notes on current page are removed from warm cache on refresh
Scroll: Selected note card now scrolls to center of the list for better visibility

V108.2

Performance & resilience:

Startup: Cache-first render & parallel loading
Scanning: Fingerprint-based change detection
Fonts: Centralized FontStateManager with fallback
Storage: Auto-cleanup on quota errors
Build: Code health checks and reduced plugin size

V108

Latest (v108)

v108.10: New AI brainstorm mindmap mode, improved batch grammar correction across notes, and a professional tone rewrite option
v108.9 patch: AI can group notes directly on the canvas: by topic, color, caption, or any criteria you describe
v108.4 patch: Much faster first launch: no more UI freezes on large files
v108.4 patch: Faster note scanning on big pages
v108.3 patch: Warm-cache startup now skips automatic all-page background scanning
v108.3 patch: Reopen now refreshes the active page to capture edits/adds done while closed
v108.3 patch: Detail images load on-demand only with lightweight preview caching
v108.3 patch: Selected note card now scrolls to center of the list for better visibility
Faster startup: Cache-first rendering with parallel settings & note loading
Smart scanning: Fingerprint-based change detection skips unchanged notes
Page-aware rescans: Per-page timestamps prevent redundant full rescans
Font resilience: Centralized FontStateManager with robust fallback chains
Storage resilience: Auto-cleanup on quota errors with retry logic
Parallel extraction: Notes within each chunk processed concurrently
Delta updates: UI receives only changed notes instead of full list
Settings caching: In-memory TTL cache prevents redundant storage reads
Document isolation: Document context uses shared plugin data, no cross-doc pollution
Scan guard: Overlapping scans queued instead of running concurrently
Build pipeline: Code health checks, class analysis, optimized Webpack & icon pruning
SVG spinners: Lightweight SVG loading indicators replace CSS animations

V107.7

UI & AI improvements:

AI: Grammar correction, fact check & ideation
Selection: Canvas selection for filtered notes
What's New: Update notices on quick actions too

V107.6

Selection & visibility features:

Select All: New button to select filtered notes on canvas
Visibility: Hide/show note title and content individually

V107

AI & note management:

AI Tools: Brainstorming, Summary & Grammar tools
Batch Edit: Apply AI changes to many notes at once
Sizes: New note size options (tiny → jumbo)

V50

Plugin v3.5

Links in notes, improved links UI
Cache fixes for smoother experience
Local storage caching to avoid storage limits

V47

Plugin v3.5

New editor
Double click to open editor
Performance improvements

V42

Plugin v3.0

UI & transition improvements
Auto Edit Mode bugfixes
Quality-of-life improvements

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Quickstart: leave a useful design review note

A small workflow to try before using the plugin on a larger file.

1. Open Notely in a file you can edit

Open the plugin from its Figma Community page and choose a design file. For a guided example, use the Notely playground linked above.

2. Create a note with a specific action

Use the note creation action and give the note a short title, such as “Checkout error message”. Add the context and the change you want reviewed. Place the note beside the relevant design.

3. Find the note again

Open the note list, search for the title and choose the note to navigate back to its position. Agree on titles and colors with your team so later reviews remain understandable.

Choose the right feedback tool

Use Figma comments for a discussion thread. Use Notely when you want an editable note on the canvas and a list to find it again. FigJam stickies and Dev Mode annotations serve different workflows; check the FigJam guide and annotation requirements when choosing.

Importing existing notes

The importer reads Miro, Asana and Jira exports, Text2Note files and Notely CSVs. Export from the original tool, choose the matching importer and check the preview. Import creates a copy; it does not establish a live connection to the original task.

If a note is missing

Check the current page and scan settings, refresh the note list, and confirm that you are in the right file. File permissions still apply when creating or editing canvas content.