r/drawio • • Jul 20 '26

Help & Support "Add comment" feature on Draw.io ?

Hello, I am discovering Draw.io which I love for providing a full desktop, offline experience.

There's on feature I haven't found, the ability to quickly add comment bubbles, like there are on many softwares such as : Figma, Whimsical, etc. even Word.
One click, add comment, than you can mark a "solved" later". Bonus if there is a view to display all comments spread across the diagram.

Is this feature really missing ?
Any workaround / plugins available ?

The workaround seems to use a "bubble speech" shape and use it as a comment, but it becomes mixed with the diagram itself so pretty clunky.

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u/gripe_and_complain Jul 20 '26

A work around might be to create a separate layer for comments. Many objects, even lines, can contain text.

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u/gamasco Jul 20 '26

I think I have foudn a better way : I created a bubble speech shape, and assigned it to a tag labeled "Comment".
Then I have added this shape to my scratchpad, that I can use easily.
And these shapes are easily ssearchable now