Ask AI about your notes and frames
Select notes or a frame, pick a quick prompt or write your own, attach a screenshot if it helps, and get the answer back as notes on the canvas, a design review, a brainstorm map or a workshop board.
Goal
Turn notes and designs into summaries, ideas, feedback and new notes without leaving Figma.
Before you start
- An AI provider set up in AI Settings.
- Optional: notes or a frame selected on the canvas, as context.
Steps
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Select what the AI should read Select one or more notes, or a frame, on the canvas. You can also ask without a selection. When something is selected, the top of the Ask AI sheet says so, for example 'Including 2 selected notes' or 'Analyzing 1 selected frame'.
With notes selected, Ask AI says how many it includes (step 1). - Open Ask AI Click the Ask AI button (the sparkle) in the footer, next to Create Note. With several notes selected, 💬 Ask in the selection bar opens the same sheet.
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Pick a quick prompt or write your own Click a quick prompt to pick it (it turns white), or type your own request. A picked prompt is sent as it is, or with what you type in the box. 🎨 Get design feedback and 📥 Notes from frame need a selected frame. 📝 Summarize notes, 💡 Name ideas, ✨ the writing prompt (it starts as Improve & fact check, and its arrow opens Grammar correct, Professional tone and Make it less verbose) and 📂 Group notes need selected notes. 🧠 Brainstorm map and the workshop prompts (🔄 Sprint Retro, 📊 2×2 Prioritize, 👥 Empathy Map, 🤔 How Might We, 🌳 Flow & Hierarchy) work with a frame, with notes or with the prompt alone. Prompts that do not fit your selection are greyed out.
Prompts that do not fit the selection are greyed out (step 3). -
Attach a screenshot if it helps Paste an image, drop it on the box or click Attach image. Click a thumbnail to see it full size. Press Enter to send.
An attached screenshot shows as a thumbnail in the box (step 4). - Choose the provider The list next to the button shows the providers you set up. Pick one, or choose Manage AI providers… to open AI settings.
- Click Ask AI Notely sends the request and adds the answer to the canvas as new notes with the caption AI: up to three notes, or up to twelve when you use Notes from frame.
- Know the special answers Get design feedback puts a design review on the canvas, with the sections you chose in Vision Settings. Group notes sorts the selected notes under a header note per topic. Brainstorm map builds a mind map of notes joined by lines. The workshop prompts build their own board layout; see Build a workshop board with AI.
Tips
- To rewrite notes in place instead of getting new notes, select them and use Improve writing in the selection bar.
- Save a Document Context in AI Settings so every answer knows what the project is about.
Result
The answer sits on your canvas as notes (or a review or a map), and Show only AI notes in the filter menu lists the AI notes.
If something goes wrong
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'Set up an AI provider to use Ask AI.'
No provider is saved. Notely opens AI settings: add a key or a local model and save.
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'Please enter a prompt'
Type a request or click a quick prompt. Brainstorm map is the exception: with notes selected it runs without a prompt.
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'Select at least 2 notes to group'
Group notes needs two or more selected notes. Prompts that mention group, cluster, categorize or topic are treated as a grouping request too.
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I selected a frame and got notes instead of a design review.
A selected frame is only reviewed when you use Get design feedback or ask for feedback in your prompt. Any other request uses the frame's text as source material.
Common questions
Where do Ask AI answers go?
Onto the canvas as new notes with the caption AI. Turn on Show only AI notes in the filter menu to list just those.
How many notes does one answer create?
Up to three. Notes from frame can create up to twelve, one per item it finds in the frame.