Add and manage comments on Mac
In Merrimo on your Mac, you can pin comments to a panel, a balloon, a page or anywhere on the canvas. Everyone on the story sees them, can reply and react, and can turn a comment into a task.
Add comments in comment mode
Comment mode stays on until you stop it, so you can review a whole page: click, type, post, click the next thing.
- On the canvas, press N, or choose Insert > Comment (N). A banner across the top of the canvas says Click anything to comment, and the pointer becomes a comment pin.
- Move the pointer over the canvas. The panel, balloon or other item a click would pin to is outlined and named, such as “Panel 2 · Page 1”. Over an empty part of a page the comment is pinned to the page, and over empty canvas to that spot.
- Click. A dashed pin appears and the New Comment card opens beside it, saying where the comment goes (“On Panel 3 · Page 1”, “On Page 2” or “On the canvas”).
- Type your comment. To make it a task, select Task, then choose who it is for from Assign.
- Click Post (or press ⌘Return).
- To stop, click Done in the banner or press Esc (they do the same thing), or press N again.
Clicks in comment mode never select, move or resize your artwork. Clicking an existing pin opens its thread.
If you click away from the card before posting, your words aren’t lost: the card closes to its dashed pin, and clicking the pin opens it again. Starting another comment while one is unsent opens the unsent one. Cancel throws a draft away.
You can also right-click anything on the canvas and choose New Comment, or select a panel or page and click the + button in the Comments window.
Read and reply to a thread
Each pin shows the initials of the person who started the thread, in their color. A number on the pin counts the replies, a task shows a checkbox and the initials of the person it’s assigned to, and a resolved pin is gray with a check. Rest the pointer on a pin to preview the comment; click it to open the thread.
- Reply: type in the field at the bottom of the thread and press ⌘Return, or click the send button.
- React, edit or delete a message: move the pointer over the message and use the small toolbar that appears, or Control-click the message. You can edit and delete only your own messages.
- Reactions: click a reaction to add yours or take it back; rest the pointer on it to see who reacted. The smiley button offers five quick reactions, and More… opens the full emoji picker.
- Resolve: click the check in the thread’s header when the comment has been dealt with; Reopen brings it back. A task has a Mark done checkbox instead.
- More: the ⋯ menu turns a comment into a task (or back), assigns a task, shows the thread in the Comments window, and deletes the thread.
Review comments in the Comments window
Choose View > Comments (or press ⌥⌘K) to open the floating Comments window. Its title shows how many threads are open. There is one Comments window: when you switch to another story window, or another window of the same story, it shows that window’s comments.
- Open, Tasks, Resolved: choose which threads to list. Each shows how many there are.
- Filter (the button beside them): show only threads written by you, only tasks assigned to you, or only threads on the page you’re looking at.
- Search finds threads by their text or by who wrote them.
- Threads are grouped by page, in page order. A comment pinned to a spot inside a page is listed under that page. Comments pinned to empty canvas outside every page come after the pages, under “Off the page”, and comments whose panel or page was deleted come last, under “On a deleted item”.
- Click a thread to scroll the canvas to its pin and open the thread right in the list. A task can be ticked off from its row.
- The eye button shows or hides the pins on the canvas (also View > Canvas > Show Comments, ⌃⇧C). Hiding them doesn’t change any comment. Resolved pins appear on the canvas only while the window lists resolved threads.
- The story’s owner can remove all resolved threads with Clear Resolved….