How are you migrating comments from board to board when pasting work?

Why @John,

While we are waiting for a workaround from our power users, I think you can upvote this idea as it is also about exporting a board with comments. Feel free to write a comment there as well to describe your use case in more detail.

This feature is very important. I often use comments as a form of “long-form writing” about a particular board element. For example, I have a sticky note with some abbreviated topic on it; I then add comments to the sticky note to explain my rationale behind the note’s existence, or to simply give more detail. Copy/pasting the sticky note--even to the same board--results in the original comments being lost.

What I’d like to see when pasting elements with comments is an option to also copy the comments. This shouldn’t be forced, but a simple UI dialog with paste options would be useful. Another shortcut may also be a way around this (e.g., CTRL-SHIFT-V).

Having this capability encourages me to 1) continue using the comments feature, and 2) to reorganize/duplicate elements and boards more freely without worrying about losing content.

Another idea is perhaps to add a new feature called “annotations” that are semantically different from comments. Comments could remain tied to an exact element on an exact board but annotations would naturally follow the element as its moved or duplicated.

It’s not a full solution but I use a workaround to preserve comments while splitting a board:

• Duplicate the board
• Remove the parts you don’t want from each board

However, this has some limitations:

• The dates of the comments are reset to the current date
• This won’t allow moving comments to an existing board

the workaround with duplicating the board does not work if I want to move part of my board with comments to another board that also contains its own comments

Migrating comments from one board to another typically involves copying the content of the comment and pasting it into the appropriate section or location in the new techgiddy board. In some platforms or software tools used for collaborative work, comments might be associated with specific elements or sections, so copying those elements along with their comments ensures the context is preserved. If the comment exceeds three lines, consider summarizing or paraphrasing it to fit within the three-line limit if necessary. This ensures that essential information is transferred while adhering to the constraints of the new platform or format.