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Using Notes

Notes let you leave context, reminders, and to-dos inside your screenplay without touching what prints. A note sits in the flow of the script while you write, and disappears entirely from printed and exported output.

Inserting a note

Any of these inserts a note at the cursor:

  • Format ▸ Special ▸ Note
  • *⌘\ / Ctrl+*
  • The Note button in the toolbar

In Fountain text, notes are written inline as [[ your note here ]].

The note chip

Every note carries a small, always-visible chip with its controls — you don't have to hover to find them:

  • Delete — removes the note and its text. EpicDraft asks you to confirm first, since the note's contents go with it.
  • Subject link — connects the note to a page in your Library.

Linking a note to a Library page

Link a note to a character, location, or note page in the Library and it surfaces on that page — open the character's page and the note is right there, with a jump back to its spot in the script. It's an easy way to collect scattered thoughts about a character or location in one place.

Attaching or detaching a subject never edits the note's prose; the link is metadata, and the words you wrote stay exactly as they are.

Synopsis

A Synopsis is a separate element for a one-line summary of a scene — insert one with Format ▸ Special ▸ Synopsis or ⌘Y / Ctrl+Y. Like notes, synopses never print; they're there to help you see the shape of a scene at a glance while drafting.

A synopsis describes whatever comes after it. Put one above a scene heading and it is that scene's summary; put one above a run of action or a conversation and it is a brief for that passage. (Fountain's own convention, a synopsis directly under a heading, is read the same way.)

The AI reads them too. Every AI surface that looks at your script — inline suggestions, commands, chat, the scene list, the outline map and coverage — is told the synopsis for the scene it is in and for the passage it is writing. So a line like = Mara finally admits she was wrong above an empty scene is the brief the AI works from when you ask it to write that scene.