Team notes on cues

A team note is a block of text attached to a specific cue for a specific team. When the director advances to that cue, the note appears on that team's output screen. Different teams see different notes — Audio sees the Audio note, Lights sees the Lights note — and teams can't see each other's notes.

Notes are private to the team they're addressed to. You can write frank operational instructions for your sound engineer without them appearing on the video team's screen, and vice versa.

Adding notes

Notes are written when you create or edit a cue. In the cue form, there's a Notes section with a text area for each active team in the room.

Each field is labelled with the team name it belongs to. Leave a field blank if that team has nothing to do for this cue — blank is fine, it just means no note appears on that team's screen.

Notes are plain text only. Keep them short enough to read at a glance the moment a cue goes live. A sentence or two is the practical limit before notes become walls of text nobody reads under pressure.

Which teams see which note

A team sees a note for a cue if:

• Their team is active in this room
• Their note field for this cue is not blank

If the Audio note is empty and the Lights note has text, Audio sees nothing and Lights sees their note. There's no "no note" placeholder — the absence of a note just means nothing is shown.

Who can edit notes

Notes are part of the cue itself. Editing them requires the same permission as editing any other cue field: Director, Associate Director, or anyone with the can_edit_show permission.

Crew members, observers, and Q&A moderators cannot edit cues and therefore cannot add or change notes.

How notes appear on output screens

When the director advances to a cue, the note for the viewing team appears in the notes section of their output screen — below the cue title and timer. The update is instant and real-time; crew members don't need to refresh anything.

If a cue has no note for that team, the notes section is simply absent for that cue.