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Comment on the text ​

A comment can be about a few words of an article instead of the whole card: "is this number still right?", next to the number. Others answer under it, and when it is settled, someone resolves it.

Everyone who can open the board can do this, viewers too. Nobody needs to be able to edit the article.

Comment on some words ​

  1. Open the article full page: open the card and click Expand.

  2. Select the words you mean. A Comment button appears by them.

    Words selected in an article, with the Comment button by them

  3. Click it, write your comment, and press ⌘Enter (Ctrl+Enter) or click Comment.

The words are marked in the text, and your comment sits beside it.

A comment beside the text, with the words it is about marked and an answer under it

  • Select a whole sentence, or a whole paragraph, when that is what you mean.
  • @ mentions someone, as in any comment.
  • On a phone, select the words the way your phone does (press and hold, then drag the ends). The Comments button at the top opens the comments over the text.

Answer and resolve ​

  • Reply answers a comment. The answers stay together under the words.
  • Resolve says the matter is settled. The comment folds away under Resolved, and its words are no longer marked. Anyone who can comment can resolve.
  • Reopen brings it back. So does a new answer.

Click marked words to go to their comment. Click a comment's quoted words to go to them in the text.

The same comments on the card ​

Every comment on the text is also in the card's Comments, with the words quoted above it. It is one conversation, shown in two places. Click the quoted words there to open the article at them.

The same comment in the card's Comments, with the words quoted above it

When the text changes ​

Nothing is written into the article to hold a comment in place. The comment remembers its words, and finds them again each time the article is shown.

WhenWhat happens
The words move: text is added above them, or their paragraph is movedThe comment moves with them.
The text around them changesNothing.
The words themselves are rewrittenThe comment says "The text this was about has changed". It stays in Comments, and beside the text under No longer in the text. Resolve it if the rewrite settled it.
The same words are in the text twiceThe comment stays with the ones it was made on, told apart by what stands around them.

So an assistant can rewrite an article, or five people can write in it at once, and no comment is lost.

Who is told ​

The same people as for any comment:

  • everyone who follows the card (commenting makes you follow it), and
  • anyone you @mention.

The line under their bell quotes the words, and opens the article at them. When someone else resolves a comment of yours, you get one line saying so.

Good to know ​

  • You can comment while you write, too (Edit): select the words and click Comment, as when you read. The marks and the comments stay in view, and the words you chose stay marked while you, or others, go on writing. Words you typed a moment ago are saved first, so the comment is about words everyone has.
  • A visitor with the public link reads the comments and can't add any.
  • Deleting a comment on the text deletes the answers to it.
  • An earlier version of the article, read under Versions, isn't marked.
  • The marks need a current browser. In an older one the comments are all there, beside the text and on the card, without marks in the text.
  • An assistant connected to Kanbanto sees these comments with their words, can add one about words it quotes, and can answer. Resolving is for people. See what to ask.

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