How to Add Writing Ideas to a Document

Questions
1

I’m writing a world-building document and need to add creative notes outside the main text. However, comments serve other purposes, and I want these creative notes to be flexibly selectable for display in the final output document based on settings.

2

For placing notes outside the main body of text, there are some packages that make it easy utilize the margins. For instance:

For optionally including them in your document you can do something simple like this:

#let include-all-comments = true

#let comment(comment-body) = if include-all-comments {
  //Anything you want for formatting your comment (including using packages)
  set text(red)
  comment-body
}

//Your document where you may include as many comments as you want
#lorem(5)
#comment[Some text]
#lorem(5)

Changing include-all-comments from true to false will prevent any of the comments from rendering in the output document.

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