Add per-item commenting
Akin to the commenting system in Google Docs, it would be nice to be able to have comments and discussions around the items in a list to enable more interactivity between users in a shared document.
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Hello Peter,
Thanks for describing your workaround, I see the pain :(
Could you please let me know, why don't you use notes for such question/answers discussions of the content? Our notes are more like comments, and initially, they were developed for such discussions.
I understand that it won't solve permission issues and won't place comments on the side, but at least you won't need to close tasks/hide completed etc. for printing.Thanks,
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Peter Thompson commented
Kirill, Sashika - The biggest boon with comments in google docs is having the content and the discussion linked but separate, and having a historical thread of the message maintained so impetus for changes are available for future readers.
I'm using a workaround wherein I use nested list items with tags-based icons to denote list items as "questions" and "answers", and I close the item when the issue is resolved.
But this has several shortcomings, compared to systems like that in google docs.
-the commenting is in my content, not alongside it
-if I want to perform a "clean" export or print of a list, I need to change the list's settings to hide completed items (resolved comments), and perform a search to filter and show open comment tasks so I can collapse them manually. A lot of effort to do this every time, then unhide complete items
-in order to allow users that should be read-only users to comment and ask questions in context, I need to make them editors. This ENDANGERS my content, especially as there are (very useful) plethora of key commands, and only a one-action undo. If a client or collaborator isn't familiar with the powerful keyboard action and shortcuts, they can completely hose a list before realizing it, and then they can't reverse their changes. -
From what you write I see that you suppose adding another level of commenting in the right sidebar (there could be an option to view existing notes in the right sidebar, but it is not your idea, right?).
I'm afraid, I don't see a use case for such functionality so far. Why have different levels of comments for different groups of people?Or your main point is to allow commenting of read-only lists? Than your request probably duplicates this one: http://checkvist.uservoice.com/forums/2121-general/suggestions/548517-let-clients-comment-even-in-read-only?ref=title
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Wayne Moses Burke commented
I think I may have not been clear.
I am not recommending additional inline commenting. What you currently have with notes is fantastic. What I'm discussing is a meta-level of commenting. GDocs commenting system changed recently (maybe 6 months ago?) and is not really inline anymore, it's effectively in a right hand sidebar, with pointers to the place in the text that the comment references.
For CheckVist, I see a similar solution, although it would not require character level pointing, just task level. This extra level of commenting could be opened to a different audience from those that have the list shared with them so that they could comment on it on a line-by-line basis without being able to change the list itself.
It may not be the direction you want to head, which is absolutely cool, but I wanted to make certain my recommendation was clear.
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I should admit I don't see how could we add both notes and comments in the Checkvist. Inline comments and collaboration in GDocs are nice, but Checkvist is outliner and not text processor. For individual list items you can collaborate using notes. Adding comments for fragments of the text in list items sounds cumbersome for me.
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Wayne Moses Burke commented
Well, not quite.
I see notes as additional information about how to accomplish the task at hand, but if there is a question or discussion about the task list (or outline), comments can provide a non-linear method of highlighting these things and then allowing a discussion to occur around them.
Does this make sense? If not, it may be worth a look at how Google Docs has implemented commenting in their text documents. I have yet to see it done better for collaborative creation.
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Adminsashika (Admin, Checkvist) commented
But you can add notes to the selected list items (nn shortcut on the selected item or Add notes command from the Actions menu).
Seems like it's what you're requesting?