'Notepad' or similar in Live?

[Citizen]

Hey, just wondering if there is some means by which I can actually make written notes to myself in Live.

You know, like if I have some ideas while I'm working - but don't have time to fully explore them at the time, is it possible to jot these down somewhere in the project, so I can remind myslef when I next work on it?

Photoshop has something like this - it just works a bit like 'Stickies' on Mac OSX. Does Live?

[Tarekith]

Yes, right click on a clip and choose "Edit Info Text". Now when you have the help pane open in Live's lower left corner, you'll see anything you enter here when that clip is selected.

[Citizen]

Oh wow - that is cool! Thank you.

I take it that there is not space for general notes that relate to the whole track, rather than the specific clip to which the note has been added?

I guess, as a workaround, if you had some more general notes for various ideas for the track (ie, not clip specific notes) you could just have a track that was dedicated to 'NOTES'

[Coupe70]

VSTNoteXL has become freeware.
You can even insert pictures.

http://www.proxl.nl/p/vstnotesxl.html

[Tarekith]

I think you can right click on the track header and do the same thing, I can't remember if it only works for Clips.

[Citizen]

I think you can right click on the track header and do the same thing, I can't remember if it only works for Clips.

Yep - works a treat.

You can also do this on the Master track - so you can make 'overall' notes for the project, track specific notes, and clip specific notes.

Awesome. Thanks!

[auditory canvas]

You can also do it with scenes.

[3dot...]

and racks / device presets as well..

[Citizen]

Oh, wow - I'm glad I asked - really handy tip to know.

Thanks to all for contributing to the thread.

[bobland]

Hopefully, we can assign a color to the text box on the next update.

[Tarekith]

My own wishlist is an option to only show user entered text, and hide the default help text.

[regretfullySaid]

There's also a hack to make notes show up in the Project Manager View (with pic support!)

and also if you save notes in a jpg or png format you can load those in their own track and they will pop up when/where they are placed in the Arrangement view.