I’m currently setting things up for my community and am doing quite a bit of copywriting (lots of first, second, third and fourth drafts… :sweat_smile: ). Some of the content is starting to look decent, but there are bits and pieces that still need to be finalised. For example, I’ll write a note “in…

[תמונה] stephtara: Is there a feature/plugin/something in Discourse that can help me keep track of all these “copyediting notes” I’m leaving all over the place? Perhaps you can bookmark them with a custom label? You can also set a reminder.

[תמונה] stephtara: is there a way, when we’ll be ready to go live, to “purge” edit history for a topic and remove responses that were back-and-forth about the work in progress cleanly? Yes: [image] As for the responses, you mean replies, as post? Then sure you can remove posts, unless I mi…

[תמונה] Canapin: Then sure you can remove posts, unless I misunderstood something. I was under the impression that when you removed replies it remained visible that a reply was there at some point and had been removed. Not the case? Thanks for your responses! Bookmarking is an idea but I thi…

[תמונה] stephtara: Not the case? Only admin and moderators can see that posts were deleted :slight_smile: But I think you refer to the “(This post was deleted …])” you sometimes see, those posts, deleted by their author, are removed after 24h (can be changed in settings).

[תמונה] stephtara: I maybe also just need to highlight the places in the topics where the notes are to make them visible at a glance Do you want those highlights public or private? If public, you can use <mark></mark>. If private, you can use a [wrap] that will highlight text only for admins…

[תמונה] Canapin: Do you want those highlights public or private? If public, you can use <mark></mark>. for the moment public is fine!! Thanks… I’ll try that. [תמונה] Canapin: If private, you can use a [wrap] That could come in handy, what is a Wrap content

[תמונה] stephtara: That could come in handy, what is a Wrap content Yeah sorry that was a bit vague: you can customize content using special tags to which you add custom CSS rules: [תמונה] Customize posts' contents with your own styles Developer Guides R…

Oh perfect! Going to dust off my 20-year-old CSS skills :sweat_smile:

If you wish to have inline notes in posts, you could use footnotes, perhaps? Then simply remove them and hide the edit history like what Canapin said above.

Is there a way to track topic content that I'm marking as "will require future editing"?

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stephtara (Stephanie Booth) 16 בפברואר,‏ 2026,‏ 6:10am 11

Oh, footnotes? How does that work? Sounds like a good idea!

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Is there a way to track topic content that I'm marking as "will require future editing"?

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