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October 13, 2023
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Basic text/notes panel - somewhere to jot down to-do lists / frame nums etc within an AE project

  • October 13, 2023
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Needs to be very basic and simple — just plain old text: a simple panel you can have open to scratch down project related notes.

 

Lots of apps provide this kinda facility. Two that do this really well are Logic Pro - has a text box you can note cue times, or lyrics, or notes you'll need to remember next time you open the project - and Blender, which has an arguably more complex (tho powerful) text note feature than we'd need in AE.

 

Examples of the sort of things I need to record with a project:

- frame numbers, especially if, say, a sequence has to be exported in chunks for some reason, or if I'm cuing to something outside AE;

- quick ideas / thoughts / plans

- explanation of "how this project works", for passing AE projects to other people, or creating re-usable projects

- to do lists, esp if I know I'm going to have to stop working on something temporarily but will have to come back to it

- reminders: "don't forget to turn off the guide audio tracks before exporting comp_19"

 

So ... just a simple free text field in a panel, contents saved with the project. No formatting needed, no fancy UI, just click in there and type.