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[Disclaimer: sorry to invoke any other associations by machines or humans than intended by me using the terms "notes" and "comments"..! I'm not talking about musical notation, harmony notes or forum commenting]

Feature: a simple way to leave brief notes, comments or highlights inside a project. I imagine this as a sort of layer over/markup independent of the project UI, to be hidden, deleted, perhaps even previewed from outside, without having to load the project (eg stored in the project song's folder).
Some use cases:

• Notes to self with ToDo's, reminders, instructions. Instead of sticking post-its to the monitor at the right pixels. Would be handy to save also to devices, samples, clips etc independently from a project

• Highlight a novel section, effect, button etc in a collaborative project. ("New tracks added"; "Check this knob, instead of the obvious one" etc) Should snap to UI elements

• Highlight a recording to markup certain parts ("this part is crap, skip"; "check these peaks"; "Here's that alternate bridge!" etc) and add a brief comment. Should apply to audio, midi, automation etc alike, and as well to source elements (original takes, samples, midi clips) as processed tracks and compositions

• Comment on a note, resolve it, perhaps with some kind of notification to the involved user(s). With UTS timestamp of course (but without building an entire online collaborative engine aka google docs or a forum )

I imagine this in a simple way just having some kind of textmarker with a tiny snippet of text to add, snapping to a UI element or spot inside it (them pixels again). In a significantly more fancy way I could see walkthroughs or a dedicated guiding UI layer accessible to users. (And an entire tutorial industry jumping on it, selling in-DAW guidebooks...)