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07 Dec, '17
Jacob from Dabble Admin

"Comments (like GDocs)" (suggested by Sunny J. Reed on 2017-12-01), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

13 Dec, '17
Maya Merged

The Ability to leave notes for yourself within the chapters and scenes would be amazing. I find it's easier to access them when they are within the section verses separate from the manuscript.

13 Dec, '17
Jacob from Dabble Admin

"In Line Commenting" (suggested by Maya on 2017-12-13), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

13 Jul, '18
Emily Smith

In line commenting would be ideal. Pretty please!

05 Nov, '18
Tuppence

This would make the editing process a lot easier. There are a lot of times when I'm writing where I'll come to a point where I know I'm going to have to change something later. Currently, I write that down in a note with the chapter name and what I need to change, but it would be so much easier to be able to have a comment right there where I need to edit. As well, it's a lot nicer if your friend who's kindly helping you edit can leave a comment for you instead of changing something

21 Dec, '18
Sam

This is the single-most important feature Dabble is missing. I would love to see this added! It's very useful to leave a note about the thing I need to change and to keep track of whether I've made those changes when editing.

09 Jan, '19
Kim Katil

This. It would be very helpful to be able to quickly note something and move on. Just off the cuff, to make it "more helpful" than what's currently out there, perhaps have a flag attached to the comment? Things like "Rewrite", "Research", "Grammar Fix", "Check Timeline"

28 Jan, '19
Maya

I do a lot of editing with my writing group and this would be a great feature. (Maybe an editing mode would be an option?)

27 Jul, '19
Mary Warner

I do a lot of reworking in my stories and I'd like to be able to comment to say what parts need changing instead of having to do that immediately.

13 Aug, '19
Mark Tomlinson

Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. I want the ability to flag a sentence, paragraph, or scene and attach a comment to it. A real example I'm dealing with; I'm proof-reading a scene and noticed that I changed the POV for one paragraph. So I had to bracket the paragraph in asterisks and add "WRONG POV" to the starred line. Hopefully, I can find these asterisks later. Inline comments, flagging, and the ability to jump between them would make this SO much easier.

22 Aug, '19
Liz Nix

Same! Inline commenting would be so helpful. I use it all the time in google docs and I think this one thing would tip me over to using Dabble 100% for my stories. Thanks for your consideration.

06 Nov, '19
ann

To add on to this, if this is implemented something i would love to see is the option for the comment to be *either* a comment with text *or* just a flag that has a visual, colored marker out on the margin and on the index/navigation side pane! It would be great to be able to flag things with a few simple colors for either tracking or returning to later.

10 Nov, '19
Johannes Rexx

The way I would use comments in a scene is as a synopsis, and as place to save a To Do item for later attention.

09 Dec, '19
Chante'

Even just being able to change the color of text would help to leave notes to self and catch attention when editing. I hope this is a feature that you consider.

14 Feb, '20
Jun Merged

This feature will let us "add comments" the same way we do it in Google Doc

17 Feb, '20
Jacob from Dabble Admin

"A Google Doc style "Add Comment" feature" (suggested by Jun on 2020-02-14), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

26 Apr, '20
Frank Carver

Absolutely. I nearly gave up and went back to google docs because of this. I now have to add my comments into the text with searchable delimiters, but that screws up my word count. Yuck.

07 May, '20
Echo

Please, please add this feature. It's the one big thing keeping me from subscribing.

27 May, '20
Cate

Maybe a (relatively) simple solution(?): When I need to leave myself an inline note now, I add brackets around it & bold the note so I can find it later. If my note could somehow not be counted toward that scene's word count, I would be happy. Could you add a "note" style (just like there's a bold and italics style; it could also be a different color — bold/grayscale, even) that would exclude words in that style from the total wordcount? That would solve 90% of my inline commenting needs. Thx!

27 Jul, '20
Carolyn M Mowchan

Hello Jacob...I love how many votes for this there are! I am almost ready to have readers for my first draft and it would be so much easier to share if I didn't have to send 350 pages, chapter by chapter to Word and then email, chapter by chapter, to readers. When does the consideration move to commitment and possibly happen?

30 Jul, '20
Chet

For now, it might be wise to create a “notes” plot line so you can access it, then bracket and bold the word “notes” in scenes or chapters that have them so you know where they are.

You could also easily check them via plot lines.

30 Jul, '20
Malcolm

I'm currently browsing a variety of tools for my next novel, and this is SO close, but the problem is that I work a lot with various forms of margin note. If a line's not working for me, I need to be able to quickly and easily make a note as to why, and carry on with my draft secure that whatever problem I was having is one I can easily go back and fix. I need to have my worldbuilding notes up in the right hand pane beside my text, I just need more flexible usage of notes and the side pane.

30 Dec, '20
Chet Sandberg

Alas, also vital to use Dabble as an editing platform.

16 Jan, '21
Tania

This and being able to add images to story notes and the manuscript itself are they only things Dabble needs to be perfect!!

25 Jan, '21
ROLANDO ARCO

Adding notes to one self while writing is necessary. It doesn't have to be exactly like in Word or Google Docs, but something

04 Jun, '21
Linzi

I've only been in here 5 or 6 weeks - and I love, love, love the clean workspace and easy Dabble vibe - but this is the one feature I am missing the MOST from my previous software (scriv). Every time I have to come out of writer space, change windows and go to Google Keep to add a revision suggestion or error note and then hope and pray I can find the right place again, honestly I think about going back. I'm already finding that I'm working more in other places when I know I will need notes because of this one thing.

I'm pretty disheartened to see that the comment feature has been requested for almost 4 years and seems to have the highest number of votes of any feature request and is just 'Under consideration'.

Is there any chance at all of an update on the likelihood of it happening and either why it can't right now or when that might be? (apologies if I have missed this but a search of the forums didn't bring any news on it up)

Thanks - Linzi

26 Jun, '21
Liz Leiby

I've been using Dabble for revising my novel over the last two days and I'm finding that I really wish I had this feature. I love Dabble for drafting, but for revising, there is a ton of stuff (including this!) that would be incredibly helpful.

10 Jul, '21
Geralt

I have used this feature and can attest to its credibility as a versatile tool for dealing with monst- I mean multiple iterations that are currently contending with sometimes up to three other versions, simultaneously, for iteration. If I'm to choose between one edit or another, I'd rather not choose at all; Google docs' comment feature makes the slew of editing all the more worthwhile.

12 Jul, '21
Diana zLeslie

Can you contact me

22 Jul, '21
Rachel

If this feature is added, I would like the option to make comments invisible. I don't know why, but making the comments permanently visible is very jarring to me (see Microsoft Word's comment formatting, for example of what I mean by "permanently visible").

02 Aug, '21
Author E.J. McMaster

Definitely! This would be so helpful since I often need reminders on the side, and sentences highlighted that I plan on editing later. Please add this!

24 Aug, '21
Alex

Please implement! This is such a huge feature that is missing.

06 Sep, '21
Christie n Thompson

I think you could make the comment feature super basic and it would help a lot. right now i put comments in the story body where a) I cannot see them at a glance and b) they add to my word count which i don't want. i resist making themes for these two reasons but it would be immensely helpful if i could make them. really they would mostly be little notes to myself.

16 Sep, '21
Lauren

Please please give us the ability to make notes inline, or just have a general way to note tbd revisions in the text itself.

17 Sep, '21
Elizabeth Barnes

I am a lifetime subscriber waiting patiently (kinda) for a way to add comments or flag areas in my manuscript so I can find them when it is time to edit. Preferably nothing that would mess with the word count goal tracker, cuz I LOVE that!

02 Oct, '21
Linzi

YAY! Just yay!
Before I start asking ... when? Please.

08 Oct, '21
Jan

Love the idea of being able to make inline notes/comments but would very much like this to be accomplished with an editing platform that would allow for changing text color or being able to highlight sections. I am new here and enjoy writing in the program but have found a few shortcomings. Today is the first time that I have had time to peruse the suggestions and I am very disappointed to see that many of these issues have been 'kicked around' with members requesting them since 2017. I sincerely hope that Dabble will be taking these things seriously and implementing needed changes quickly. I think I would like to have a life membership but will see what sort of progress is made in the coming year before I commit. This feature is relatively simple to add in terms of programming. Many of the suggestions that I have read here are not difficult fixes. Can we expect some changes before 2022?

21 Oct, '21
Jacob from Dabble Admin

Comments are in!

22 Oct, '21
Linzi

Thanks SO much Jacob

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