"Notes" (Cheatsheet) for documents?

[LostInTranslation]

It just happened again, that I have to create the first edition of what will become a regular publication.
I got an extensive briefing from the client, which is the "rulebook" for my work.

It would be really handy, to have these notes available at all times inside Publisher.
There is a "Notes" panel, but that is not what I mean.

I am looking for a way to have notes "attached" to a document, but never visible in (or part of) the actual document.

Right now, I am just inserting an extra page at the end and place the notes there. It is not a perfect solution though.
Is there a better way to do this?

[firstdefence]

Notes are a much requested feature but notes doesn't exist... yet!

you mean like indesign has? https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/quick-tip-how-to-use-notes-and-add-comments-to-indesign-cs5-documents--vector-4681

[firstdefence]

Just had a look at the Beta's and there is no "note" sorry couldn't help myself on adding a Notes feature.

 

[firstdefence]

Also...

 

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, firstdefence said:

Just had a look at the Beta's

There are no active betas at the moment, so no reason to look at them.

The next beta would be for 2.0.5 or 2.1.0, whenever it arrives.

[thomaso]

On 2/2/2023 at 7:45 AM, LostInTranslation said:

I am looking for a way to have notes "attached" to a document, but never visible in (or part of) the actual document.

Right now, I am just inserting an extra page at the end and place the notes there. It is not a perfect solution though.
Is there a better way to do this?

As a workaround to notes or alternative to extra pages you could place your note in a text frame in the workspace area (left / right of your pages).
To make it visible for every spread you place it on a master page which gets applied to all wanted pages. Unfortunately, as master object it will appear by APub's default at the bottom of the layers hierarchy on every page.

An even more limited workaround would be the "Preflight Comment". It gets added to a specific object (e.g. a page number / on a master page). It displays only 3 lines of its containing text and requires the arrow keys to scroll because of lacking scrollbars and being a not resizable panel.

[MikeTO]

4 hours ago, thomaso said:

An even more limited workaround would be the "Preflight Comment". It gets added to a specific object (e.g. a page number / on a master page). It displays only 3 lines of its containing text and requires the arrow keys to scroll because of lacking scrollbars and being a not resizable panel.

You can get a fourth line of text with the Default font size and see 14 lines in the Preflight panel. If you make the panel wider you can see a lot of text.

But line breaks will be removed when creating comments like this so you'll have one big paragraph of unformatted text.

[Old Bruce]

10 hours ago, LostInTranslation said:

I got an extensive briefing from the client, which is the "rulebook" for my work.

It would be really handy, to have these notes available at all times inside Publisher.

I would just use a Master Page named Notes or Rulebook and paste/place the notes into that.

[thomaso]

22 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

You can get a fourth line of text with the Default font size and see 14 lines in the Preflight panel. If you make the panel wider you can see a lot of text.

But line breaks will be removed when creating comments like this so you'll have one big paragraph of unformatted text.

I said "even more limited" because in fact is hardly useful for a client's briefing summary.

But your hints made me curious: Do you have a way to change the font size in the Comment panel?
And, widening the Preflight panel doesn't do anything useful to me:

[MikeTO]

6 hours ago, thomaso said:

But your hints made me curious: Do you have a way to change the font size in the Comment panel?
And, widening the Preflight panel doesn't do anything useful to me:

The Mac version offers a large UI font size option. With it set to Large I can see 3 lines in the Comment dialog but 4 lines with the Default size.

With regard to widening preflight, that must be a difference between Mac and Windows - here's a ridiculously long comment. This isn't new in v2.

[thomaso]

1 minute ago, MikeTO said:

With regard to widening preflight, that must be a difference between Mac and Windows

We are both on mac. Maybe it happens in certain macOS only.

[MikeTO]

1 hour ago, thomaso said:

We are both on mac. Maybe it happens in certain macOS only.

Must be. Your screenshot is from v1 but I did try it in v1.

[LostInTranslation]

19 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

I would just use a Master Page named Notes or Rulebook and paste/place the notes into that.

This is exactly what I ended up with and for my purposes, it works well enough.
Since I obviously don't use this master in the document, I don't have to worry about it being printed and still it's always at hand.