🔄 Note Transfer Basics

• How do I transfer my notes?

  Move your annotations to a new draft with Scriptation's Note Transfer — open the new draft, tap Transfer, pick the previous draft, and your notes carry forward.Popular

• How long does it take for annotations to transfer?

  Most Scriptation Note Transfers finish in seconds — under a minute even for heavily annotated drafts with images, layers, and lots of notes.Few readers

• How do I transfer my Bookmarks to my new draft?

  Carry every Bookmark — and its custom name — into your new draft by toggling on Transfer Bookmarks in the Note Transfer window.Few readers

📑 Working with Revisions

• Transferring Notes to a New Set of Pages: the Collated Pages Process

  Use Collate Pages to bring revised page packets (blue, pink, yellow, green) into your script and transfer your annotations forward in a single step.Some readers

• How do I insert or import new pages?

  Bring revised script pages into your draft with Collate Pages, or add non-script pages (storyboards, schedules, references) with Add Pages.Some readers

• How do I replace pages?

  Replace out-of-date script pages with revised ones using Scriptation's Collate Pages — it swaps pages and transfers your annotations in a single step.Few readers

• How do I replace scenes?

  Replacing scenes? Use Collate Pages for locked-page packets, or follow our workaround for new-scene packets that aren't part of a full revised script.Few readers

• Will new revision pages automatically be reflected in page color?

  Yes — turn on Scriptation's Revision Colors info layer to auto-color your revised pages (blue, pink, yellow, green, etc.) based on the WGA revision color wheel.Some readers

• Can I transfer notes with a One Liner schedule?

  Yes — Scriptation can import a PDF one-liner and transfer your notes forward to each new schedule version, though accuracy depends on formatting.Few readers

• How do I transfer notes from sides into a master script?

  A workaround for compiling Sides notes back into a master script — reorder, Lock the Sides file, then run a standard Note Transfer.Few readers

📋 After the Transfer

• How does Scriptation handle A Pages and Deleted Pages?

  Note Transfer recognizes A and B pages and Deleted Pages, and brings your annotations forward intact. Here's how each case behaves.Few readers

• What are Deleted Annotations?

  After a Note Transfer, any annotations whose script text was cut appear in the Deleted Annotations summary — view them, copy any you want to keep, and paste into the new draft.Few readers

• Yellow sticky notes appear after a transfer? Changed Annotations.

  Yellow stickies on your script after a Note Transfer are Changed Annotations — flags showing where annotated text was adjusted in the new draft. Here's how to read them.Few readers

• I got a pop-up during Note Transfer. Do I tap Replace or Keep Both?

  During Note Transfer, Keep Both keeps the new draft's existing inserted pages or bookmarks and adds the old ones alongside; Replace will replace them with the old ones.Few readers

🤖 Comparing Drafts

• What is the Analyze tool?

  How to use the AI Analyze feature to compare different drafts of a script.Few readers

• How do I use Compare Scripts?

  Compare Scripts generates a scene-by-scene PDF report of every text change between two drafts of your script — perfect alongside a Note Transfer.Popular

• Is my script private when using Analyze?

  Your scripts power Analyze through OpenAI's API — which is contractually barred from training AI models on what's sent, and retains data briefly for abuse detectionFew readers

🐛 Troubleshooting

• My note transfer didn't work. Help!

  Nine common causes — out-of-date app, wrong direction, flattened PDF, watermarks, file name issues, mismarked pages — and how to fix each.Few readers

• Why didn't my Highlights and other annotations transfer to my new draft?

  If a chunk of your annotations — Highlights, Underlines, Strikethroughs, Squiggles, or marker strokes over text — didn't carry over during Note Transfer, the most likely cause is a flattened source PDF. Here's how to confirm and recover.Few readers

• Why didn't my character or scene auto-highlighting transfer?

  Auto-Highlights don't transfer to new script revisions like regular annotations — here's why, and how to regenerate them in your new draft.Few readers

• Transfer put my old script in the back of my new script? Help!

  If Note Transfer left your old draft appended to the back of your new draft, the cause is almost always a settings mismatch — here's how to recover and re-run the transfer correctly.Few readers

• How do I use Master Edit Mode?

  Master Edit Mode in the Page Manager lets you reassign which pages Scriptation treats as Native script pages — useful for fixing mis-marked pages, Note Transfer crashes, and No Native Pages Detected errors.Some readers

• No Native Pages Detected message? Here's what to do next.

  A "No Native Pages Detected" message during Note Transfer means Scriptation sees the source file as Inserted pages only — here's how to fix it with Master Edit Mode.Few readers

• Transfer is crashing? How to fix non-native page issues

  Fix Note Transfer crashes caused by script pages that were marked as Inserted instead of Native after import. Walks through reassigning pages with Master Edit Mode, prepping the destination draft, and running the transfer cleanly.Few readers