Divi Notes lets you leave feedback directly on the element it's about, inside the Visual Builder. Pin a note to any section, row, column, or module, assign it to a teammate, @mention people, and talk it through in a reply thread. When the work is done, resolve the note.
Notes are for the people building the site. They never appear on your live pages and never change how a page looks. Use them for design feedback, client reviews, handoff instructions, or reminders to yourself.
Open Notes
You can open Notes in two ways:
Click the Notes icon in the left sidebar.
Press Shift + C. Press it again to close Notes.
The badge on the icon shows how many open notes the page has. It turns gray when you've read all of them.
To hide the icon, open Builder Settings and uncheck Notes under Sidebar Icons.
Add a note
Right-click an element on the canvas or in the Layers panel.
Click Add Note.
Type your message in the Note field. Type @ to mention someone.
Optionally, choose an Assignee and a Category.
Click Submit.
Your note appears at the top of the Open tab. You can also click the Add Note button at the bottom of the Notes modal, then pick the element from the Element list. The list includes elements on your Canvases.
Note: Save the page after adding the first note to an element. Divi stores the link between the note and the element with the page. If you leave without saving, the note stays in the list but shows as on removed item, even though the element is still there.
Find notes on the page
The Notes modal lists every note on the current page, with the most recent activity first. It has three tabs:
Open - Every open note on the page.
For Me - Open notes assigned to you or that mention you.
Resolved - Every resolved note on the page.
Use Search notes... to search note and reply text, people's names, and element names.
Click the filter icon to narrow the list by one of these:
Read Status - Unread or Read.
Follow Status - Following or Not Following.
Notifications - Muted or Unmuted.
Assignee/Tag - The person assigned or mentioned, or Unassigned.
Author - The person who created the note.
Category - The note's category.
Element - The selected element, or a type of element such as Sections or Modules.
Only options that match a note in the current tab appear in the menu.
See notes on the canvas
While the Notes modal is open, elements with open notes show a numbered badge on the canvas. The Layers panel shows the same badge even when Notes is closed.
Click a badge to see that element's notes. If the element has one open note, its thread opens. If it has several, the list narrows to that element. You can also right-click the element and choose View Notes.
Hover over a note in the list to highlight its element on the canvas. Click the note to open its thread and select the element.
Reply to a note
Clicking a note opens its thread, which shows the original note, every reply, and a history of assignment and status changes.
Reply - Type in the reply field and click Reply. Type @ to bring someone new into the conversation.
Assign - Use the Assignee field under the reply box. The change saves right away, without a reply.
Category - Click the category at the top of the thread to change it, or click its X to clear it.
React - Click the smiley icon below a message to add an emoji reaction. Click a reaction to add or remove yours.
Edit or delete - Use the icons on your own message. You can edit your messages while the note is open. A deleted reply shows Reply deleted in the thread.
Resolve a note
When the work is done, resolve the note in one of these ways:
Hover over the note in the list and click the check icon, or click the check icon in the thread header.
Type a message and click Resolve with Reply.
The note moves to the Resolved tab, where its text, assignee, and category are locked. To bring it back, click the check icon again or use Reopen with Reply.
Use the note menu
Right-click a note in the list, or click its three dots, to open the note menu:
View Thread - Opens the thread.
Edit - Edits your own open note.
Resolve or Reopen - Changes the note's status.
Resolve With AI Agent - Hands the note to the Divi AI Agent.
Mark Unread - Marks the note as unread for you.
Go To Element - Selects the element and scrolls to it on the canvas.
Copy Link - Copies a link that opens the Visual Builder on this note. Paste it into a chat or email to point a teammate straight to it.
Mute Notifications - Stops all emails about this note.
Permanently Delete - Deletes the note and all of its replies. This can't be undone.
The menu in a note's thread adds Follow and Unfollow, so you can get emails about a note you're not part of.
To act on several notes at once, hold Cmd / Ctrl and click each note, or hold Shift and click to select a range. Right-click the selection to resolve, reopen, mark, mute, or delete them together. This works the same way as multi-select on the canvas.
Organize notes with categories
Categories show what kind of feedback a note is. Divi includes Design, Content, Development, Accessibility, and Question.
Administrators can change this list. Open the Category dropdown in the Add Note modal, or click a note's category in its thread, then click Manage Labels.
In the Manage Labels modal, you can:
Click Add Label to create a label.
Click a name to rename it.
Pick a color, including one of your Global Colors.
Hover over a label to reorder or delete it.
Click Save when you're done. Labels apply across your whole site. Deleting a label removes it from notes on every page, but the notes themselves stay.
Choose your email notifications
Divi emails people when something happens on a note they're part of. Each email shows the site, the page, the element, what happened, and who did it, with an Open in Divi button that takes you straight to the note.
To choose what you get, click the bell icon at the top of the Notes modal. These settings are personal and apply to the whole site.
Turned on by default:
Assigned or unassigned
Mentioned in a note or reply
Replies to notes assigned to me
Replies to notes I follow
Turned off by default:
Replies to notes I created
Notes I created are resolved or reopened
Notes assigned to me are resolved or reopened
Notes I follow are resolved or reopened
You follow a note automatically when you create it, reply to it, get assigned to it, or get mentioned in it.
To silence one note, choose Mute Notifications in the note menu, or click Mute this thread in any email about it. A muted note still shows up in your For Me tab.
You never get an email about your own actions. Reactions, edits, and category changes don't send email.
Note: Divi sends these emails through WordPress, so your site needs to be able to send email.
Resolve notes with the Divi AI Agent
The Divi AI Agent can do the work a note asks for. Click the AI icon on an open note, or choose Resolve With AI Agent from the note menu.
The Agent reads the whole conversation and makes the change on the page, following your usual approvals. It then replies in the thread with what it did and resolves the note. If it can't finish, it explains why in a reply and leaves the note open.
Select several notes to send them all in one task. The Agent handles each one separately and resolves only the ones it completes.
You can also ask the Agent in chat to add, edit, assign, or label notes for you.
Control who can use Notes
Notes has three permissions in the Role Editor, under Divi → Role Editor:
View Notes - See notes on pages the user can edit. Without it, the Notes icon, shortcut, and menu items are hidden.
Add and Reply to Notes - Add notes, reply, react, assign, and resolve.
Manage Notes - Delete anyone's notes and replies. Only administrators have this by default.
You can assign or mention only people who can edit the page and use Notes. Customers and subscribers are never listed.
How notes work with other features
Deleted elements - The note stays, and the list shows it as on removed item. You can still read and reply to it. Undoing the deletion reconnects the note.
Copied elements - Copying or duplicating an element doesn't copy its notes. Cutting and pasting on the same page keeps them.
Undo and history - Adding, replying to, or resolving a note isn't part of the builder's undo history.
Theme Builder - A note on a header, body, or footer element belongs to the template, so it appears on every page using that template.
Components - A note on a Component stays with that one instance on that page.
Loops - A note on an element inside a loop applies to the whole repeated element. Its badge shows on the first item only.
Responsive views - Notes belong to the element, not a breakpoint. If the element is hidden at the current breakpoint, the thread shows Hidden at this breakpoint.
Preview mode - Canvas badges are hidden, but the Notes modal still works.
Wireframe view - Canvas badges stay visible.
Divi Library and export - Notes aren't saved to the Divi Library or included when you export a layout.
Notes refresh every 30 seconds while the Notes modal is open, so a teammate's new note can take a moment to appear.