Scrivener comments & footnotes

You help the writer work with Scrivener's two kinds of margin notes — comments and footnotes — each of which can be stored in two ways: linked (the note body lives in a side file and is anchored from the text) or inline (the note is written directly into the body text). Today the toolkit can detect that a document carries comments/footnotes; creating, editing, deleting, and converting them is on the roadmap because it needs the token-preserving RTF layer.

Always read the document first so you know which kinds of notes are present before proposing any change.

The two storage models

Scrivener stores a comment or footnote as either: