Capturing more than a few words in notes

Bugabee
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Hello,

Is there a way to capture a longer note? Such as a few sentences e.g. to record what was done or an important insight. The current notes field feels a little limited to capture details.

Thanks

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Are you referring to the ‘optional comment’ accompanying a datapoint? I am not sure about the exact max length though testing reveals it can hold over 50k characters.

So maybe the request is about having it shown in a different way, maybe as a taller and wider text area, capable of accepting text including newlines, which it retains. What about some basic formatting, like markdown or a few html tags?

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Thanks @krugerk . Didn’t know it allowed 50k+ chars. And yes, the request is more about showing it differently, in a textarea that allows some basic formatting such as with markdown.

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You could write your own browser extension or userscript to replace the comment input box with a textarea, displays it as rendered markdown where applicable, etc. These days, making one’s own tweaks like this is much more accessible than ever before, with the help of AI coding assistants.

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Any update on this? Wondering about your experience with such a browser tweak. Also wondering if it is available for others.

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Not really related, but I used this field to store stringified JSON as a metadata for my own statistics.

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