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url: "/commentful/comments/custom-statuses.md"
description: "You can organize your Figma comments into a Trello-style kanban board with your own custom statuses"
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# Organise Figma comments into custom statuses

> You can organize your Figma comments into a Trello-style kanban board with your own custom statuses

## Creating a new custom comment status

[Video](/assets/videos/commentful/comments/add-custom-status.mp4)

Under the **Figma Comments** tab, you can create custom columns for your kanban board under to organize your Figma comments into different custom statuses.

YOu can do this by horizontally scrolling to the far-right hand side of the plugin, selecting your **New Status Icon**, choosing your **New Status Color**, providing a **New Status Label**, and then clicking on the **Add New Custom Status** button to create and save your new status.

Once your status has been created, it will show up as the far-right column next to any existing statuses you've already added.

> **Tip:** The default **Backlog** status will always be present as a default category where any new/uncategorized Figma comments will show up for you to assign their own custom status.

### Editing a custom comment status

You can edit a custom status at any time by clicking on the **3 Dots** icon button next to any custom status label, updating your icon/color/label, then clicking the **Update Custom Status** button to save your updated status details.

### Deleting a custom comment status

You can delete a custom status at any time by clicking on the **3 Dots** icon button next to any custom status label, then enabling the **I want to delete this custom status** toggle, then clicking the **Delete Custom Status** button to remove custom status.

> **Note:** This will only delete your custom status, and **will not delete any Figma comments** already inside of that status; these comments will automatically be moved to the **Backlog** status after your custom status has been deleted.

## Re-arrange custom comment status swimlanes

[Video](/assets/videos/commentful/comments/rearrange-statuses.mp4)

After you've created at least two custom statuses, you can re-arrange them on your kanban board underneath the **Figma Comments** at any time by clicking the custom status column **Label** text and dragging it horizontally left or right to shift it before or after other custom status columns.

Once you've dragged the column where you'd like it to be placed, letting go of your mouse to _drop_ the status will save it in its new ordered location.