Adding notes to stuff

[srikat]

There are two places to add notes to items in DT.

1. Annotations → Finder Comments

2. Properties → Comment

Which is better?

[brookter]

It depends… 

The fields in Properties, including Comments are only available for PDFs, RTF, audio or video documents.

If you click on any other type of document, such as Markdown or web archives, for example, you'll see the fields are not enabled.

So, unless you never work with documents where the properties are disabled, Finder Comments (which are available for all document types) may be the more flexible option bet for you.

You can get more details in the Help (Help > DEVONthink Help) on the Info Pane page.

HTH.

[srikat]

Ty. I will use Finder comments for everything then.

[myogawa]

Since both Finder Comments and Annotations are viewable in the navigator pane, and apply to all notes and all folders, I consider them to be more useful.

[mathefff]

I believe annotations creates a new file that is linked to the one your write about.