Comments

Sometimes a cell needs a conversation as well as a translation. Comments let your team discuss specific cells in context.

Commenting on a cell

Open a cell and add a comment from its action rail. Comments are threaded, so replies stay grouped into a discussion, and they appear in a side rail next to the text. An unresolved-comment count surfaces as a badge so open discussions stay visible. When you filter the panel (by file, participant, or search), the badge updates to match what’s visible, including showing 0 on a filter with no matches; clear the filter to see the project’s total again.

Any cell with an open discussion also shows a comment icon in its gutter at all times, even without hovering, so you can scan a file for cells that still need talking through. Hover it to see how many open comments the cell carries (“2 open comments”), and click it to jump straight into that cell’s thread.

In the project-wide comments panel, each thread is labelled with the cell’s reference (GEN 1:1, say), so you can tell at a glance where a discussion belongs.

A thread lives with its cell: the gutter icon stays until the discussion is resolved.

Anyone with a commenter role (or higher) can take part: see Roles & permissions.

Comments are for discussion, not sign-off

Comments and validation are different tools:

• a comment is a conversation about a cell;
• a validation is a reviewer confirming the cell is correct.

A cell can be validated with no comments at all, and a cell can carry an active discussion without being validated. Use comments to raise questions, suggest alternatives, or leave notes for a teammate, and use validation when you’re confident the cell is right.