Text notes everywhere

In addition to the notes field in every take lane, tracks have a notes field called Description in the Track tab of the Inspector.
ALT+J+I opens the project info dialog which has a large notes area

Vstnotes? http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=11168

Little clip icons like those SoundCloud has would be cool.
 

Most of that stuff is there in one form or another. The problem is, they're not in your face and you have to dig around to find them. The whole point of making notes is to trigger your memory for things, if you have to switch tabs or expand a track to see them, you forget about them and they become useless. The project info screen is huge and has lots of space for stuff but it takes up the entire screen and you have to context switch to use it. If someone hadn't pointed out all the notes locations available, I would never have found them. I still rarely use them because they're tucked away in places I don't normally look, out of sight out of mind.
A couple ideas:
A Show Notes track context menu item that brings up a non-modal notepad view that can be resized etc.
Timeline sticky notes that can be seen by hovering over a marker or something.
Add a notes field on the track like PT.
The Inspector has some empty space above the gain knob, maybe put something there.
 
Edit: Grammar.

The Project Info screen is certainly useful for, well, project info.
But I do like the idea of sticky notes along the way. Maybe just notes attached to markers would be cool.
You're listening to your project, and you notice something that needs attention, or you want to try something different, but you don't really want to break the flow to fix it right now.
Insert marker, right click, type note to self, go.
To an extent, you can do that now with the marker name, but if markers are too close, the text overlaps, and you can't read it.
Good idea.

scook
The Project Info screen opens maximized but does not have to stay that way

I just opened this for the first time in over 10 years and even resizing this window it is 1) linked to the main SONAR UI (which I want maximized) and 2) cannot be floated off the main parent area. If this feature had its own resizing (not linked to the parent) and could be moved to a second monitor (or even the dock) it would be more useful.
 
I definitely like the ability to have a text file that would show all notes created in text fields within a project in one file (dynamically rendered, could be even simple RTF format), as this would allow for timeline-based notes to be very useful.
 
Just a few moments with "Project->Info..." made me realize it had slipped under the radar for so long.

Sounds like a good idea to me. Like Bob I keep notepad files of stuff to do with the project (hardware synth patch plus synth performance notes for example), but accessing it all within Sonar would be very helpful. The current track note in the inspector is useful, but notes per clip, per marker etc. would be much better.

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I just realized that my previous post might have come off as sarcastic; it was absolutely sincere.
I have my own strange way of marking up my own songs after I've made my initial handwritten notes. If I think of two different words that might fit somewhere just right, I write one on the main line, and the alternate right above it. If the alternate wording would change the direction of the lyrics at another point in the song, I insert certain symbols at both places, etc. etc.
 
It's for this reason that I still do all of my initial song writing with paper and pencil. But I love it whenever the gulf between the flexibility of the pencil and the rigidity of the computer is narrowed in any way. So hurray for flexible note taking and stickies!