Articles on: Transferring Notes

How do I transfer my notes?

When you receive a new draft of your script, Scriptation's Note Transfer moves every annotation from your previous draft to the new one — in seconds, in the right places.

📝 NOTE: This video shows a slightly older user interface, but the instructions are still accurate.

Here's a common scenario. You have a draft of a script marked up with all your notes — let's call it the Studio Draft. Ding — that's your email, and the Network Draft just arrived. Here's how to bring all of your notes into the new draft.

Open the new draft in Scriptation;
While in the tab for the new draft, tap the Transfer button on the Top Toolbar;

Select the previous draft you want to transfer your notes from. For this example, we'll select "AotTB - Studio Draft":

The Transfer Annotations window now appears, showing the cover pages of both the previous and new drafts, with an arrow pointing in the direction notes will be transferred.

Industry Pro users have three additional Pro Transfer options to choose from, which can be turned on with the toggle switches:

Collate Pages — For note transfer and integration of new page packets, when a fully collated script isn't available;
Compare Scripts — Compares both drafts and generates a scene-by-scene breakdown of script changes;
Transfer Bookmarks — Carries your Bookmarks into the new draft.

With your transfer selections made, tap the blue box (it will say Next or Begin). For users with a single layer of annotations, the transfer has already begun — skip to step 7.

Users with multiple layers of annotations will be taken to the Layer Selection window. Tap the checkboxes of the layer(s) you'd like to transfer, then tap Begin.

📝 NOTE: Multi-Layer Transfer is an Industry Pro feature.

Transfer results

The transfer takes a couple of seconds. When it's complete, you'll see an overview of the results:

Tap OK to view a detailed summary of any Deleted Annotations caused by the rewrites.

📝 NOTE: Auto-Highlights are designed to not transfer — they should be toggled on fresh in the new draft. See Why didn't my character or scene highlighting transfer?.

That's it — your notes are now in the new draft. Now you can make new notes on all the things that have changed!

✅ TIP: Seeing little yellow sticky notes on your script? Those are Changed Annotation alerts, letting you know that script text that had annotations in the old draft has been adjusted in the new draft.

What's Next

My note transfer didn't work. Help!

Why didn't my character or scene highlighting transfer?

I got a pop-up during Note Transfer. Do I tap Preserve or Delete?

Updated on: 02/06/2026

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