For fiction writers (me!), the word processor is tremendously faster than writing long-hand in a notebook; thus, my tendency to write with a word processor. However, with a notebook or legal pad it's easy and fast to circle certain passages, underline words, etc., and make arrows, let's say, from these to the margins, where one can write reminders, comments, can mark questionable words (if a meaning isn't precise, for example, mark it so, and do the thesaurus-digging for a whole day's writing at once, rather than stopping, breaking your pace, for each word that needs further definiton), or leave reminders for ANY sort of thing that would otherwise break your pace, disturb your train of thought, etc.)
Atlantis needs something that will allow this sort of thing; big, clubby MS Word has a CTRL - ALT + M hotkey command that instantly sets your cursor in a COMMENT area; it marks all the places where you've inserted comments, making it easy to go back through a day's writing and take care of these housekeeping-type tasks later. This is what I'm requesting.
If there's an easy, fast way to do this that I'm unaware of, please let me know. Hyperlinking, using separate open files for comments....these things are too cumbersome and slow to keep the pace going. A "Footnotes" feature might work, depending on how clearly the notes are marked in the text (for ease of finding them later!)
Peace,
KJ
Some way of Inserting Comments, especially to long documents
Re: Some way of Inserting Comments
Hi, Kojo!Kojo-obgyn wrote: For fiction writers (me!), the word processor is tremendously faster than writing long-hand in a notebook; thus, my tendency to write with a word processor. However, with a notebook or legal pad it's easy and fast to circle certain passages, underline words, etc., and make arrows, let's say, from these to the margins, where one can write reminders, comments, can mark questionable words (if a meaning isn't precise, for example, mark it so, and do the thesaurus-digging for a whole day's writing at once, rather than stopping, breaking your pace, for each word that needs further definiton), or leave reminders for ANY sort of thing that would otherwise break your pace, disturb your train of thought, etc.)
Atlantis needs something that will allow this sort of thing; big, clubby MS Word has a CTRL - ALT + M hotkey command that instantly sets your cursor in a COMMENT area; it marks all the places where you've inserted comments, making it easy to go back through a day's writing and take care of these housekeeping-type tasks later. This is what I'm requesting.
If there's an easy, fast way to do this that I'm unaware of, please let me know. Hyperlinking, using separate open files for comments....these things are too cumbersome and slow to keep the pace going. A "Footnotes" feature might work, depending on how clearly the notes are marked in the text (for ease of finding them later!)
Peace,
KJ
Notes or comments are unsupported yet in Atlantis, but
1) To "mark questionable words", you could use special highlighting or font colour(s), or underline.
2) To add "reminders, comments", you could
a) insert a bookmark where you want to add a reminder.
b) carry the target comment over to the end of your document.
c) create a hyperlink to the source bookmark.
Alternatively, you could
1) insert your comments right where they belong in the flow of text,
2) then format them with a special style or a special formatting brush from the Format Palette.
This would mark your comments out for easy recognition.
3) When you don't need the comments any more, you could easily delete them.
Cheers,
Robert
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Some way of Inserting Comments, especially to long documents
Yes this is something I am looking for also.Kojo-obgyn wrote: For fiction writers (me!), the word processor is tremendously faster than writing long-hand in a notebook; thus, my tendency to write with a word processor. However, with a notebook or legal pad it's easy and fast to circle certain passages, underline words, etc., and make arrows, let's say, from these to the margins, where one can write reminders, comments, can mark questionable words (if a meaning isn't precise, for example, mark it so, and do the thesaurus-digging for a whole day's writing at once, rather than stopping, breaking your pace, for each word that needs further definiton), or leave reminders for ANY sort of thing that would otherwise break your pace, disturb your train of thought, etc.)
Atlantis needs something that will allow this sort of thing; big, clubby MS Word has a CTRL - ALT + M hotkey command that instantly sets your cursor in a COMMENT area; it marks all the places where you've inserted
comments, making it easy to go back through a day's writing and take care of these housekeeping-type tasks later. This is what I'm requesting.
If there's an easy, fast way to do this that I'm unaware of, please let me know. Hyperlinking, using separate open files for comments....these things are too cumbersome and slow to keep the pace going. A "Footnotes" feature might work, depending on how clearly the notes are marked in the text (for ease of finding them later!)
Peace,
KJ
