Sorry folks, just been through the ringer and come out somewhat worse for wear. I remember recently an addon mentioned which allows you to add notes to parts of the flow. A bit like the comments section of an open node. But the search didn't yield much exciting - for me. I'm sure SOD's LAW will …

Oh found :slightly_smiling_face: [image] doc-red A plugin for Node-RED which helps to documentate and enhance your workspace.

No, that is out of the box. Somewhere we (other people and I) were discussing things and I mentioned how I use a * to indicate I have added extra comments. It was mentioned an add-on to allow extra comments to nodes/groups and other stuff.

Add a node annotation if the info property is set dev ← add-doc-annotation ouvert 09:59AM - 13 Nov 24 UTC (UTC) [image] knolleary …

That looks a bit like what I mentioned above.... doc-red. I am not (yet) that confident (no offence to Nic) to do all that complicated stuff I see. The one doc-red seems familiar and is easily installed. (Still confused) :confused: :wink:

Were we discussing this recently? By memory is foggy at best.

[image] Info icon for nodes with description? Feature Requests I don't document much in node red (or enough), but when I do, it's not easily visible. And because I do it so rarely, and perhaps I'm not alone here, I don't really expect to look for documentation. Which means…

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What "addon" is it so you can put notes on nodes/groups/etc?

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What "addon" is it so you can put notes on nodes/groups/etc?

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