Script Studio

Note Board overview: home for unclassified-but-important content

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Plan view's 6th tab is Notes. The Note Board holds everything that doesn't fit the 5 structured tabs — TODOs / ideas / references / interview transcripts.

Slima Script Studio Plan view: 6 top tabs; the 6th is "Notes"

Role of the Note Board

Script Studio's 5 structured data tabs (Characters / Storylines / Locations / Worldview / Scenes) each have clear schemas. But lots of things don't fit them:

  • "TODO: still figuring out E3's climax"
  • "Idea: could A. Smith be a double agent?"
  • "Reference link: [1995 Taiwan lighthouse list]"
  • "Interview log: spoke with former lighthouse keeper Mr. X, he said..."
  • "Question: script consultant says E5 is too slow; how to fix?"
  • "Dialogue fragment: great line I just thought of but no idea which scene"

Note Board is home for these unclassified-but-important things.

Note Board UI

Typical layout:

  • Left column: list of all notes (title + preview)
  • Right: detail editor for the selected note
  • Top: filter / sort / tag

See: Create + detail notes

Note scopes

Notes can attach to different levels:

Level Example
Book / Series Series-wide TODOs, big ideas
Season Season structure discussion
Episode This-episode changes
Scene Per-scene setup / payoff records, scene-level notes

Switching levels filters the note list.

Cross-tab references

Notes can reference other tabs (e.g. [[Character: A. Smith]], [[Storyline: B-story]]) — Slima auto-links; click to jump.

Sort / filter

Usually supports:

  • Sort by time (new → old / old → new)
  • Filter by tags
  • Full-text search
  • Mark as "Resolved" / "Open"

AI Coach integration

Notes go into the AI Coach as book-level context — but typically with lower priority (scenes / dialogue you're currently writing matter more than notes).

To make the Coach focus on a specific note, @ mention it.

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