# Idea: Automatically convert Comment to Highlight

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/idea-automatically-convert-comment-to-highlight/8728>\
**Category:** Ideas & Features\
**Created:** [May 5, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/idea-automatically-convert-comment-to-highlight/8728 "2025-05-05T16:37:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yuri\_BC](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/yuri_bc/32/8803_2.png) [@Yuri\_BC](https://community.fibery.io/u/Yuri_BC)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/idea-automatically-convert-comment-to-highlight/8728/1 "2025-05-05T16:37:45Z")

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The current Comments are not entities, Highlights are.  
Highlights however require a lot of clicks, not userfriendly for rapid commenting, and have no thread functionality.

Let’s work around that and create a script to automatically conver comments to highlights?  
We need to think how to display a thread in a Highlight then, ideally not using Comments 😉 but another db ‘Comment’ that can be nested.

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**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/idea-automatically-convert-comment-to-highlight/8728/2 "2025-05-05T17:06:07Z")

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> [@Yuri\_BC](#):
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> Let’s work around that and create a script to automatically conver comments to highlights?

I don’t mean to sound rude, but this sounds like a bad idea. Highlights have very specific functionality (e.g. they require a source, can have a target, and are limited in the number of dbs they can relate to). I suspect that using them for comments will give a really bad UX.

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**Author:** ![Yuri\_BC](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/yuri_bc/32/8803_2.png) [@Yuri\_BC](https://community.fibery.io/u/Yuri_BC)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 9:44am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/idea-automatically-convert-comment-to-highlight/8728/3 "2025-07-18T09:44:34Z")

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Thanks for the response—your point is valid. To clarify my intent:

**1. Not advocating for misusing Highlights**

- I agree Highlights aren’t meant for commenting.
- My suggestion was a workaround, not a proposed model.

**2. Real issue: Comments are not entities**

- Cannot be filtered, queried, related, or extended.
- Cannot appear in views or participate in automations.
- No ability to tag, track decisions, or link across contexts.

**3. Threading alone isn’t enough**

- Current Threads group comment chains, but the comments themselves remain UI-bound.
- Lacks metadata, traceability, and cross-contextual insight potential.

**4. Bigger picture**

- Serious teams need structured collaboration tools.
- Current Comments system blocks this.
- A future model where Comments = Entities would align better with Fibery’s data-first vision.

Would love to see this discussed as part of a broader “collaboration primitives” roadmap.