I’ve seen something similar here before. It’s needed and I think would be useful to many, especially those who create notes for others to see, those collaborating, sharing, and those who would like a simple place to put pertinent minutia’.
I’d love to see comments, however my need is for inline comments, not per note.
I do a lot of thinking in Agenda, developing ideas and arguments, turning rough notes into clear writing. So I often want to comment to myself about my work in progress.
Imagine the Latin text below is my work in progress, and my comments are in square brackets:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit [punchier intro]. Maecenas eleifend risus nibh, vitae pharetra leo maximus ac [expand with exampme]. Etiam nec laoreet lacus. Praesent et lacinia nisi. Etiam finibus neque sapien [rewrite in active tense], non aliquam mauris imperdiet eget. In quis nisi vel mauris efficitur pretium.
Etc.
I’d love if I could write comments in square brackets like that, so I don’t lose the stream of my thoughts, and then collapse the square brackets to leave just a visible indicator of some kind. Hovering the cursor over the indicator would reveal the comment in a bubble, clicking would open it for editing exactly the same as creating it.
I’ve got these in the (long) project list. Thanks for the feedback!
As a temporary workaround, you could possibly use block quotes, and then collapse them using the paragraph above. That might be a little way to the inline comments.
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I agree with the focus value of creating some comments in-line, I do also. As best I can discern, Apple does not support horizontal collapse. Neither @drewmccormack nor @mekentosj have said it couldn’t be done in Agenda, perhaps using css. I’ve been putting comments and refs under a header since they became collapsable. For instance, I’m writing about the cost of widgets and get sidelined about widget design. I can cut/paste as the beginning of a new comment, finish with costs then move on to working the design text which might turn out to be it’s own note and on and on. But a comment more often is only a few words or sentences to self, a short contextual paragraph, or a link (both inline and comments) to a pdf the web or whatever. I’m pretty satisfied with the flow, flexibility, and scalability of the superscript a1, a2, a3…reference which is to the comment and is duped as a tag so spotlight and/or tag manager gets there. I decided yesterday to expand it from project level to category by making the comments section a separate project within the category. At least I can do it as I want until something permanent gets here. I’ve been doing a similar thing with related note links.