I love the idea of being able to write notes to myself directly in the document, so I can remind myself what I need to do and still continue writing out my ideas that go into the text. However, I find it visually annoying that the rounded border has to appear around every line of a multi-line comment. I couldn’t find a way to change this behavior.
Yes, we agree, and it is something that we’d like to improve. From what I understand it’s a bit tricky with the text engine to draw a border around the text as a contiguous block instead of by line, but if we can find a way to do it, the end result would be a bubble around the entire annotation rather than around each line within the annotation.
How about just giving us an option to not have the border then?
Hmm, I don’t know about that, then it would just look like red text. Thinking ahead, once we implement revision typing (which automatically colours text according to a revision colour, red being the first revision level) it could making things confusing. The thing with adding a feature is that it is difficult to take it away later on, even if the feature was originally meant to just get around one problem. I’ll ask Lee and see if there is a way to make the border less intense. If it were perhaps half as bold as it is now, it might mitigate the problem for now, and we can always tweak it back up later if it looks better when the whole thing is in a single bubble.
Whatever you come up with, thank you for at least listening to the idea. One other suggestion, if I may, and that is an easier way to remove Annotations. I had to actually read the manual to find out that copying special and then pasting is the way to do it! I feel like removing them should be as simple as adding them.
If you every need someone to test the program hard core, I volunteer. Not only am I a writer, but I do have a background in web design & development. My favorite part of that is quality control, especially when it comes user usability.
Copying without annotations and then pasting is the best way to remove lots of annotations from an entire document when you need those annotations removed in the editor while working on the project, but typically you can just leave them in and then choose not to include them when you compile your manuscript. That’s as simple as checking the “Remove annotations” box in the Footnotes/Annotations tab of compile–in fact, for most presets, this is already checked.
Otherwise, annotations are just like regular text in the editor, so you can simply select the annotation and delete it when you want to remove individual notes, which is probably a more common activity–removing notes as you attend to them.