 I'm a bit, I'm a bit blown away right now. I'm, I'm like stunned, you know, like Elementor 3.7 just rolled out and there's some things I was looking forward to but there was a new feature in there I just wasn't expecting and I'll be honest I slept on it I kind of thought that oh that sounds needed might be a little bit gimmicky I mean that was just my initial thoughts and then then I went tested it out and I was on it all night last night and I'm just blown away right now and this is something that anybody anybody right now that is building websites for clients or even if you're collaborating with a team but especially if you're building websites for clients you need to use this feature like this is an absolute must-have and definitely definitely a game changer I'm not just hyping it up not just cuz I'm a fan of Elementor but this is something I've been using in my design process and using what mock-up designs and I've always wanted to use Elementor and I know there's other tools out there that could do the same thing but I really don't want to add new plugins for stuff and make the site heavier now having something like this baked into Elementor whoo I'm all right cool I'm a bit excited as you could tell and I by the way I'm a huge geek anyway so I always geek out over stuff especially like this but this is something I can see definitely useful that's going to be Elementor notes so I'm going to tell you straight out notes is not a gimmick feature it is nothing like it this is this is a game changing feature this is one of those ones where it's just a it's a very sweet surprise so let's go ahead and start and just do a walkthrough on notes how to use it that way you can start to get familiar with it then I'll break down how you can utilize this and what to watch out for when using this with clients so to start off with we're going to use the site right here as our example and you see right here I got this notes now if you go to your dashboard and you go to Elementor to your settings and you go over to your experiments it's going to be in your experiments and kind of got to go down a bit and you're going to find it right here in notes so if you don't see it go there and go ahead you could just put on active but now since it is a stable version this is stable it's no longer beta you could go ahead and put on default and by default it is active so click on save changes and then from here now you're going to see your notes to use this just go ahead and click on it it's going to put you in notes in the notes view right here so you see whenever you're hovering over anything you could hover over any widget or part of the website right here so let's say you want to add a note here like what would this say all right go ahead and leave a note there and now somebody else could come in and reply to it so you wonder who well let's be a client let's let a client reply to it now you can go ahead and create an account for a client so I'm going to show you how I have that set up right here I created a client account and I have the client logged in right here so we're looking at everything from a client's viewpoint right here and you see the client doesn't see notes right here but if we go over to our site as the admin we could go to the client we could scroll down here down towards the bottom and then here on the Elementor notes you see permissions go ahead and turn that on and update the user all right let's go back over to our clients viewpoint click on that and now the client can see notes and now the client can click on notes and it works the same with team members as well so we go here and now the client can see they got to know now it says 10 right here and that's because I was running tests and I think I have one two three four five six seven eight nine I started deleting them you know this is something hopefully will be fixed by Elementor where they could always start back over at one but we can see here so the client could go back here and they could put it at put the at symbol and now every user comes up so they could tag me or another team member right here at Jeffrey let's put a title so they could tag me right here and what happens is I just got an email I'm gonna show you that in a minute but I just literally got an email saying that hey this client just responded to me they just tagged me if we go back here to the front end you can see everything happens in real time I didn't even refresh the page I could just happen in real time I could go ahead and message back to him at client you know okay then I could reply back to a team member he's probably going to get an email I have to let him know hey disregard the email but let me go ahead and holler at one of my team members are awesome developers Stefano hey can you check this out so you could do this on any part of the website right here you could go over here to the menu you could do it you could drop it down in the footer any single part you could think of you could click on it you know this could work like hey could we change the image here you know what title will we put here could we change the color here so that way the client could go through instead of leaving like a Google Doc or some messy email with just like all kinds of stuff I change this change this change this you can send this over to the client and they could give you a real life list of what they want to do and show where to do it and say a client feels like hey something's not working they could go right to where it's not working like hey this button isn't working you know at Jeffrey and there we go so I mean the level of communication that we could do here and to get feedback and to get clear clarity of feedback this is my I was not expecting this when I saw notes I thought it was gonna be like oh there's a little section where people could write notes to each other I didn't realize that they were doing this right here so I could turn this off and now we're back into regular mode right here you can just go ahead and click on notes or click this off same thing here say if the client they're getting emails and they don't want to keep getting all these emails the client has a bit of control over that the client could go to their profile and then over here they could go to their elementary notes and they could turn off the notifications another thing too I did want to point out that I thought was really good about this I'm glad elementary did this is if we put on notes here so the client could go to our notes but they can't edit them they could edit their own but they can't edit ours so I'm really glad that they did that because if we go to our notes right here as the admin we could edit everything oops not let's go there you see I could edit my text I could even edit the client's text right here so maybe we need to make things clear for our team and there's different situations but at least the client can't go back and you know change anything not to say clients are dishonest or something but you know I'm glad that we could put our information here and not have that messed up so we got that and let me show you then we get an email like this it's very simple straightforward it has a link to the page I'm right now communicating with elementary or see what we could do about getting like templates made or being able to adjust our emails I know this is a very beginning of notes but just a heads up I am trying to I'm looking for areas where we could make some improvements I think on the emails it'd be super dope if we can make our own branded our styles and maybe even add in our own notes so hopefully we could do that down the line another cool thing that I wanted to show us let me go to another page here let me go ahead and view it and I want to add a note on this page right here like let me see here can we make this purple and I'm gonna tag team number right here so let's go ahead and leave a note there now if we're back on our home page now if we go to these three dots right here you're gonna see we have other options like this is just showing the current page now let's click on the whole site we click on the whole site now we can see the other page as well so say the client is leaving notes on the about us page a contact page adding notes throughout the entire site we could go here and take a look at all the notes are being added and then to we could just put all notes are only mine there's many people putting notes on here and might be helpful to only look at the ones I'm tagged in and the ones that I am writing and then same thing for resolve and unread and then to we're able to delete our notes as well so I could go in right here and I could delete it or I could go ahead and put it down as resolved so now it's all good that's why we have now this great out this great out bit right over here I'm still not sure what this eyeball does oh maybe it means that okay it's just showing that's okay it just needs to be seen or maybe it's showing us who has seen it hmm alright let me see let's do a little test right here from the client's point of view seen by Jeffery wow okay see a hover over it and it says who's seen it look at that real time I'd even have to refresh the page alright I'm blown away guys I'm geeking out on this video right now but this is some powerful stuff right here wow okay game changing for real cool cool so what else is there to I think that's pretty much it okay so I used to use a tool just like this and I use this right here in vision this was always my go-to tool and we do custom design I'm a UI and a web designer I like to do designs that are strategic and I design things in figma sketch and I always create my mock-ups and my designs which are more high fidelity more high level more bespoke and I create the mock-ups and what I usually do on my design process is I put the mock-ups I put them aside here and envision send them to the client the client uses a tool just like this where they could click on the design saying what they like what they don't like asking questions about it and that always helped out with our feedback and revision process it saved us a lot of time we're able to be more in line with the client and we've always had positive experiences with the client when communicating like this it's so much better than just sending the design to the client and then having the client tried to write down all the feedback instead there's a visual they have more control over it it makes a client more more part of the project so always we did that with the mock-ups now I did find this problem happening whenever I wanted to build a site for a client maybe the site didn't have that big of a budget where we could do a mock-up maybe we just needed a quick turnaround time so we weren't able to get that kind of feedback instead the client just got kind of got to trust the direction and then you know a lot of times it came out good but sometimes you know what happens where the clients like oh my god we're in the wrong direction and they're surprised with it so I see this as a powerful tool especially for the web creators out there that just design inside elements are like they design as you are building the site now a pitfall you want to watch out from this is very important right here when using the tool like this you want to establish before you go through this type of process with the client you want to establish rules and a scope if you allow yourself and the client to get into this this space where there's this constant back and forth it is going to eat up so much time it is going to turn into a long drawn-out process you're going to be facing scope creep so the best thing to do is just define it define that okay here's what we're going to do we're going to build a landing page and this is just an example this is what I would do I would let the client know we're going to build a landing page after the landing page is built you're going to be able to go through using notes and let us know what you like and what you don't like and then we're going to do revision on that and we're going to do x amount number of revisions usually it's about one or two I don't like to do anything more than that the reason why we want to do that is if we start going through each section and letting the client do that they're going to try designing the website on their own you know they're going to be all over the place design a subjective and you know we could always fall into that that space of perfectionism it's a pitfall it's a trap so you want to be careful of that make sure you define how it's going to go before going and then this is really important this is why I liked as well let's go back over here let's go let me go back to the back end right here to my dashboard I'm gonna go back to Elementor to my settings to my experiments to my notes and this is what I would do I would turn this thing off turn it off constantly that way the client all of a sudden it's like damn all right no time is done all right open up times of windows for the notes don't leave those notes open all the time because you're gonna have the client on there all the time I could see that happening already I've been through it before you know I've been through it before with the design process and it was a learning experience the one thing I learned from you know communicating this way with designs when I'm doing it with Envision is to set a certain number of rounds you know rounds per page or per whatever scope and then to have a window of time open for it that way we go through the feedback and revisions and we finalize that as quickly as possible well I'm excited for this feature how about you how do you feel about this I'm interested to hear your thoughts how do you see this could help you out inside your workflow drop them inside the comments I'm interested to see other people's ideas and ways that they could utilize this to because I think we're just scratching the surface right here this is one of those game changers I don't say that often I said that with the global styles I saw the global styles was a game changer this is I mean the few game changers I saw when elements are built headers and footers and you know the theme builder that was a game changer global styles that was a game changer notes this is the new game changer right here I'm speechless I just I just want to drop my mic right now walk away all right cool I look forward to hearing your feedback see you again soon with more element or stuff and web design related content all right thank you