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Basic Arcweave tutorial | Part 18: Comments ​

Learn how to use comments in Arcweave projects, to collaborate with your team.

Video tutorial ​

Watch this tutorial as a video:

⚠️ This video does not reflect the latest updates to Arcweave's UI.

✅ You can play the finished version of the Tutorial Project here and explore its diagrams and structure here.

Create a comment ​

There are two ways to create a comment:

  1. Right-click anywhere on a board and choose Create > Comment.
  2. Drag the comment icon (which looks like a speech balloon) from the bottom toolbar into anywhere inside your board.

Arcweave's project environment. An orange arrow shows how to drag a new comment using the "new comment" icon, at the bottom menu.

Once created, you can start typing your comment right away. When you're done, either click Post, or press Ctrl+Enter (Windows) / Cmd+Enter (Mac).

Manage comments ​

Comments are flexible and can be managed directly on the board:

  • Open a comment by clicking it on the board or the Comments list.
  • Move a comment by dragging it around the board.
  • Select a comment with a rectangle selection. (Clicking opens it.)
  • Cut and paste a comment to relocate it.
  • Reply to a comment to keep a conversation going.
  • Edit a comment or a reply at any time.
  • Delete a reply, or an entire comment thread.

Arcweave's project environment. Two orange arrows point at a comment pin in the board and at the comment in the sidebar. Clicking on either opens the comment.

Resolving a thread ​

Once a thread of comments has been addressed, you can mark it as resolved by ticking the Resolve thread icon. A checkmark will then appear on the comment's icon to indicate its resolved status.

Comments list ​

Arcweave's project environment, with orange arrows pointing at the Comments icon (opening the comments sidebar) and the "create new comment" icon at the bottom menu. An orange rectangle shows two comment pins in the current board, one resolved and one unresolved. A comment pin looks like the speech bubble icon. A resolved comment pin (when visible) is of a darker color than the unresolved one.

You can find a list of all the project's comments by clicking the comment icon in the top-right menu. Any comment you create will appear here.

Clicking on a comment from the list takes you directly to that comment's position on the board.

Resolved comments are marked with a tick symbol in the list as well. If you'd like to omit resolved comments from the list without deleting them:

  1. Click the Filters button in the Comments panel (top right).
  2. Untick Show resolved comments.

This setting also hides resolved comments on the board itself.

Email notifications ​

The Comment notifications icon, at the top left of the Comments panel, manages your email notifications. Choose All comments to receive an email whenever a collaborator posts a comment or a reply, Mentions and replies only, or None.

ℹ️ You can mention collaborators in comments. See the Comments for details.

What's next ​

After getting a taste of collaborating through comments, in the next part of the tutorial you will learn about visits, a function that counts how many times the player has visited an element during play.