Comments

Comments are notes you pin to a piece of your text: a reminder to check a figure, a question for later, feedback from your supervisor. They sit in a pane beside the document, never in the text itself, so they don’t end up in your exported file. Comments from a Word document come across when you import it.

Add a comment

1. Select the text

   Select the words the comment is about.

2. Choose Comment

   Click the Comment icon on the bar above your selection, or right-click and choose Comment.

3. Write and save

   The text is highlighted and the Comments pane opens with a new comment. Type your note, then click Save or press Ctrl+Enter (⌘+Enter on a Mac).

Save the document at least once before you add comments — a new, unsaved document can’t hold them yet. A comment you leave empty is removed when you save or cancel it.

The Comments pane

Open it with the Comments button at the top right of the document, next to Edit. The button shows how many open comments the document has.

Each comment shows:

• The text it’s about. Click it to jump to that place in the document.
• Who wrote it and when, for example “You · 5m ago”. Comments imported from Word keep their authors’ names.
• The note itself, and a Resolved tag once it’s dealt with.

Open comments are listed first, newest at the top. Turn on Show resolved to see resolved ones below them.

Edit, resolve, and delete

Comments from Word

When you open a Word file with Edit as Markdown, its comments are brought into the Comments pane — see export & import. Multilo keeps:

• The comment text and its date.
• The author’s name (a comment with no name is shown as “Word user”).
• The highlight on the commented words — as long as those exact words appear only once in the document. If they appear more than once, the comment is still in the pane but has no highlight.

Replies in a Word thread come across as separate comments, and every imported comment starts as open, even if it was resolved in Word.

Where comments are saved

The highlight is saved inside your document. The comments themselves — text, author, date, and whether they’re resolved — are saved in a separate file next to it, with the same name plus .comments.json. For example, chapter-2.md keeps its comments in chapter-2.md.comments.json.

If you copy or move the document outside Multilo, take that file with it, or the comments won’t follow.

What comments don’t do yet

• No replies. Each comment is a single note. To answer one, edit it or add a new comment on the same text.
• Not exported. Word and LaTeX exports leave comments out. Send feedback separately, or resolve it before you export.
• Markdown documents only. Comments work in Markdown documents in rich view. A Word file in Word Preview, a PDF, or a spreadsheet can’t hold comments.
• No shared commenting. Multilo works on files on your computer, so there’s no live commenting with other people. Comments you add are shown as yours.

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