Notes in Bible Modules

Question

I’ve noticed that if I create a note in a Bible Module it is visible in Preview mode but not in Standard view.
I’m having an MTT translate introductions to Bible stories using the Bible Modules (for both Introduction and text references), and I’d like to be able to ask him questions about the introduction. Since he translates using Standard view and isn’t very computer savvy, he’s not going to be able to change the view to find my questions (with our current work flow & internet availability, I’m very limited in what I can teach). Is there a setting that makes notes in Bible Modules visible in Standard view?
I guess a possible related question is whether notes are tied to the individual book name or to the specified module. That is, if I have the story of Adam & Eve in XXA with this introduction, will the note try to attach to any other module I put in XXA (such as the story of Noah’s Ark)? If this is the behavior of notes, I’ll need to be sure to delete notes once they’re resolved so this doesn’t get confusing.

Answer 1

Unfortunately my experience is that notes don’t work very well with Bible modules. The main problem is that notes were designed to be tied down to numbered verses, whereas in Bible modules there usually aren’t verses and it is difficult for those notes to stay attached. As you say, it also doesn’t seem possible to see the note flags in standard specification view (the only view that is editable). One possible way of working is to have the notes window (“Tools: Notes list” ) open side-by-side with the project window. The notes window should be set to “current book”. At least that way all the notes can be seen along with the bolded text to which each individual note refers to, even if the flags will likely all be in the wrong place.

Depending on your workflow it might be better to put e.g. Noah’s Ark in XXB, at least until most discussions about Noah’s Ark have been resolved. Once Noah’s ark is sorted you could later copy the text into XXA if you wanted it all in one place.

Answer 2

That’s what I’m planning to do with my MTTs over Zoom. Unfortunately, the guy who drafted this and my other MTT are both too green to open the notes list, set it to current book, and work with the comments by themselves.
I actually have the Noah’s Ark story currently parked in XXD and its introduction in XXE. I’ve got a whole set of OT stories that I’m doing individually and as a whole, so it’s worked out for me to make a whole bunch of modules and then create another module that uses the /mod line to string them all together.
If anyone’s interested in the behavior of notes in modules, I have learned that notes are tied to the extra material by 3-letter code. Therefore the same notes I created when the Creation Introduction module was loaded in XXA show up no matter which module I load into XXA. I’ll have to delete these notes if I ever want to create notes for a different module in XXA, and so would you unless a future Paratext version changes this note behavior.