[severtki]

Mike and Christoph,
I'm glad to see someone else is looking for exactly this feature, and so glad to see Mike considering how to implement.  I'm not able to follow all the details of the entire discussion above, but I would just say that it is highly desirable to be able to drop a note in a specific place on a specific page without any additional entries or clicks, and then to quickly navigate through all the dropped notes.

To share my particular use case, in case it's helpful to see another one compared with Christoph's: while conducting or playing through 300 pages of music, I use different color sticky notes to quickly mark a location (color-coding for strings, winds, brass, soprano, tenor, etc.), and then when giving notes to the tenor, say, I quickly browse through all of the red tabs for him.

I really like the idea above of indexing annotations using thumbnails.  In which case, when starting a runthrough or session, the user could begin a new layer for annotations, then mark spots with squiggles of some kind (e.g. B for balance; I for intonation; R for rhythm, etc.), and then afterward, they could access an index of annotations made on that layer by looking through the indexed thumbnails.  I think it could be quite widely useful to view an index of annotations in any case -- what page did I add that # sign, anyway?

I'm with Christoph, in that every second counts because it's in real time, and simplicity is best.  I too have ForScore colleagues who tease me about not being able to drop a sticky note...

In case this is implemented by just dropping a place marker of some kind, instead of capturing a scribbled annotation, then I'll bet some users may want a way of adding a note to the mark for further information.

Thanks so much!
Kirk