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Annotations

Leave counsel notes on exact text spans — and keep them attached as bills amend.

Create a note

In the Diff Viewer (or bill text views that support selection), select a span and add a comment. Notes are workspace-scoped and can thread as replies. The same evidence resolve path can highlight an annotation’s anchor on the original PDF.

Diff viewer comments panel with anchored notes — Comments stay anchored to bill sections; reply, resolve, or delete from the side panel.

How anchoring works

Each annotation stores an anchor: the exact selected text plus prefix/suffix context and offsets within the provision path. That structure is what makes re-attachment possible when the next engrossed or enrolled version arrives.

Re-anchoring across versions

Exact quote search in the new version’s canonical text.
Fuzzy fallback using prefix/suffix context and a Levenshtein window when the quote moved or was lightly edited.
If both fail, the note is marked orphaned.

Orphaned notes

Orphans appear in an Unanchored notes tray on the bill so nothing silently disappears.
Re-read the surrounding Redline mode markup, then re-select and re-anchor, or keep the orphan as historical discussion context.