feature request: in-editor notes with zero word count

[alexishuxley]

So I'm writing this fairy tale:

Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Goldilocks. She went for a walk in the forest. Pretty soon, she came upon a house. She knocked and, when no one answered, she walked in.

But I want to add a note to myself regarding a particular sentence:

Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Goldilocks. She went for a walk in the forest. how big is a forest? should it be a wood or a jungle? Pretty soon, she came upon a house. She knocked I could update this version of Goldilocks and make the door open by retina scan and, when no one answered, she walked in.

Okay, above I've just used bold text to highlight my notes to myself. In the scene editor then I can use the highligher tool from the editor tool bar, which is fine, except that the word count increases and I don't want it to because these are notes, not real content.

I understand that the architecture page has a notes block, but that is too far away (logically speaking) from the scene. Those notes are somehow "global", whereas I want to tie some notes tightly to a particular sentence in the scene. Libreoffice's annotations feature provides conceptually what I mean:

I'd therefore like to request that some consideration be given to implementing per-scene notes. Possiblities might include:

1. adding a per-scene 'Notes' block to the scene screen (possibly with side-by-side write access using project explorer)
2. some kind of 'Annotate' tool in the editor toolbar, such that text typed with this tool is visibly differentiated from normal content and does not contribute to the word/character counts.