Highlight and comment on text in task description
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Sophia Kaminski
Would be nice to have the ability to highlight a line or text in a task description and comment on it. Then— it would show a link in the comments section and quote the highlighted text. There would also be an indication that indicates that line or text was commented on.
This makes it easier if you have a lengthy description and team members want to comment on something in particular!
Similar to how notion does this: https://bit.ly/2CcPq3j
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Raina Ahuja
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Task Description Comments
Piyush Aswani
Ability to add comments on task description text like docs.
Currently we can open a ClickUp doc and select some text to add comment on that part of the text, but the same is not available on the task descriptions.
It would be great to have similar comments ability there as well.
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Elias Höfer
Clickup Team why is this moving back! Urgently needed! Communicating about Task Descriptions is so confusing.
Top 3 of what I would like to see from Clickup right now!!
Ivan Villa
Raina Ahuja
Elias Höfer: Can you share any workarounds that you or your team use at the moment (if any)?
Naima Booth
PRETTY PLEASE!! I was so excited to see ClickUp 4.0 today—thank you for all the new features! However, it’s frustrating that while advanced features keep getting added, basic functionality like commenting directly in the task description for easy context and discussion is still missing. This would save me hours every day. Right now, I have to either create a doc just to reference text with my team or copy and paste from the description into comments, which adds unnecessary steps to my workflow. I’d love to see an easier way to reference and discuss specific parts of a task without extra clicks or creating separate docs for small daily needs. Please consider adding this to the roadmap—it would make a huge difference. Thank you!
Raina Ahuja
Naima Booth: Thank you for the excitement around 4.0 and appreciate you sharing your workarounds for this flow. Can you share a bit more about how your team structures their task descriptions? I'd love to learn more.
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Ayla Rose
That’s a great idea, Sophia—having the option to highlight specific lines and comment directly would really improve collaboration and clarity in long descriptions. Just like how https://nikaah.pk/ streamlines wedding planning by letting couples focus on the exact vendors they need, this feature would let teams pinpoint and address key details without losing context. It saves time and keeps discussions organized.
Raina Ahuja
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Elias
In the sidebar task view, I no longer have comments next to my task descriptions. By this (and already before), I do not have the context of the comments next to the comments. It would be great to be able to create comments in the task description (select, create comment; like in docs).
Raina Ahuja
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Sebastian Redling
Comment on task description field and show it in the activity section
Raina Ahuja
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Sam Baron
There is a closed request for this → https://clickup.canny.io/feature-requests/p/task-description-comments
I would really like to be able to add comments to specific text in the task description like we can in a doc. In general I find the feature gaps between docs and task descriptions to be very frustrating. This is where I think Notion has an advantage over ClickUp. In Notion, a page is a page no matter what with all of the same features.
Managing a doc through a task is too much friction when all you need is a one-page doc that supports detailed collaboration.
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Elias Höfer
Ivan Villa
Caroline Lane
How is this still not a thing?
Victor Lai
I was looking for this option today and surprised it is still not a thing!
Angus Innes
This would take our collaboration to another level!
I have to have a doc with pages that represent each piece of copy that we need written so that people can comment and review back and forth. That's great. But I also have to have a task that represents that piece of copy in my list so that I can schedule it and track it's progress. It is a manual and painstaking task making sure that the status of the doc work is updated in the list (because it's not where people are working. They are working in the Doc not the list) That allows confusion to enter and things to fall through the cracks.
It feels like I'm using two apps (docs and tasks) to track my work, where this feature would reduce that to one app to run it all.
If the Task description could function like a Doc where text could be highlighted and a comment added to that text, our process for writing all of the things that we need to have written and reviewed would be changed into a much more streamlined process.
Ivan Villa
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