A new editor for screen notes, with room for much longer notes

Screen notes are easy to overlook, but they’re a good place to keep what you know about a screen: which cabinet its player sits in, who has the key, which port on the switch it’s plugged into. We’d like more teams to use them, so this release gives them room to be useful. Until now they were a small text box on the screen’s Settings tab, capped at 255 characters and shown as plain text.

Notes now have a tab of their own, under Screens > a screen > Notes, and an editor with a formatting toolbar. They show as formatted text, with headings, bullet and numbered lists, quotes, and links you can click, and Markdown you paste in keeps its formatting. Notes can run to 65,536 characters.

For developers

On API v4.1, notes are the screen’s description field, which now takes up to 65,536 characters, up from 255.