Reviewing

Every item in a project can carry a comment thread: the project, a box, a deck, a card, a hand, a tag group, an outcome. Comments are stored with the project and travel through version control like everything else; they never go into the bundle your game loads.

There’s no separate review mode. Feedback lives on the thing it’s about, and a walk gathers it up when you want to work through it.

Leaving a comment

Wherever an item shows its heading, there’s a comment button beside it: a bubble carrying the number of open threads. Click it and the thread opens anchored to what it’s about.

Messages are signed with the name you gave on first run. Change it under User Information… (in the Storyletter app menu on macOS, or the File menu on Windows and Linux). It belongs to you, not the project, so it isn’t stored in the project files.

Resolving and deleting

Mark a thread resolved when it’s dealt with. That hides it from the walk without losing it; Review ▸ Show Resolved Comments brings resolved threads back into view.

You can delete a single message. Delete the only message in a thread and the thread goes. Delete one message from a longer conversation and a marker is left saying something was withdrawn, so the replies still make sense. Either way the deleted text is gone from the file.

Markers on a canvas

On a deck’s node canvas or a box’s map, Comment in the strip drops a thread onto the drawing itself. Click where it goes; the marker is a small pin you can hover to read and drag to move.

Drop a marker on a card (or, on a map, on a site) and it sticks to it: move the card and the comment moves too. Drop it on empty canvas and it stays where the canvas is. Dragging a marker onto or off a card switches between the two.

The walk

Review ▸ Review Feedback (Shift+Cmd+R) turns on a bar along the bottom that steps through every open thread in the project, one at a time:

• F8 next, Shift+F8 previous. The walk loops.
• The bar names what the comment is about and who wrote it. Click Go to this comment and the editor opens the item and its thread.
• If there’s nothing open, the bar says “No open comments.”

Stepping the walk takes you to each comment, but it won’t take a document away from you mid-edit: an unsaved change keeps its focus, and the bar moves without you.

There’s no writing status in the editor yet (no per-card “draft / needs review / final” state). If you need one today, a tag group is the way to model it.