I’m actually trying to throw together a solid proposition for a personal notebook feature. Check out this topic I’ve started 
https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-markdown-notebooks-for-users/313824?u=machinescholar
Your feature request is indeed very similar. 
I’ve combined the topics to group them together so we can more easily gauge their popularity and track their progress. 
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This feature request seems similar to the whisper to self idea mentioned in Wishlist: 'Note to self' in bookmark/reminder - #8 by tobiaseigen
Maybe notes on posts could replace the notes on bookmarks, which would also improve the discoverability of the option to take notes.
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I’ve tried using Discourse’s
- drafts, but it lacks/affects 1) the edit history and 2) the actual drafts.
- messages, but it is not directly in context. (Same for separate notes)
What’s your current workaround?
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bookmarks are a fairly natural fit for something like this can be post or topic, searchable, works for pms - is the main limitation on this right now the single line text field? what else would we need?
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super easy to do with existing pm from a post:
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click the user avatar of the post you want to add the note to
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click the message button
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delete the user in the
tofield and add yourself -
add your note in the message and hit send
alternatively just have a running pm to yourself and post a link the the post in the running pm. have a link to that running pm in your sidebar (this is how i do my notes on every forum).
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I agree, I forgot to include them.
is very limited, I think 100(?) characters and links placed there are not clickable. Where are those limits documented? I’ve searched and can’t find it.
I would need a different tab to visualize comfortably those messages. And something I forgot to say in my first post is all of this is from a mobile user perspective, on desktop there’s enough space to have separate notes/messages visible.
To conclude, thanks for your suggestions @awesomerobot and @Lilly , if there are already existing topics/workarounds dedicated to surpass “bookmark naming” to accept
- more characters
- links
- format
- quotes
- images
- Etc
I would appreciate redirection.
Alternately, is it problematic if I include a link to my dedicated pm in a post? Or how am I expected to navigate to it from a given topic?
I’m currently placing it in the bookmark name but is less than convenient because the pop-up to open the link doesn’t always appear and when it does it opens in the same tab requiring me to open the topic again. All of that is extra overhead that accumulates rapidly and affects my tabs order on mobile.
Maybe a workflow could be to
- create “personal notes” as a draft in topic and then convert to a linked pm instead of the normal step of replying
The option could exist in or near the reply button/options (preferably section 1). That would be helpful, even more so if the link is available in or near the bookmark option (preferably section 3).
Images for reference below.
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Seems very possible with a Theme Component. Just a button at the bottom that links to a new PM. To do that, have a read of this:
Then you can prefill the title and the recipient (yourself).
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Is it problematic if someone else reads your notes? While the link won’t work for most users, an admin clicking the link will be able to read your PM. Of course, they can also do that without the link, but in this case, they might miss that this is your personal message. The link they clicked looked like any other one on the forum.
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I’ve started building this as a plugin.
It relies on a PR to Core to add a plugin outlet:
if someone from the team could review that and merge as appropriate … I’d be grateful 
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@awesomerobot thanks for the approval on a Sunday of all days, you are awesome 
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Plugin published here: Bookmark Notes
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