notes

[rogerty]

I want to type notes for me to remember.
The notes should not appear in the output pdf.
I found this way to do it: create a textframe outside the page in Scribus.

Question: Is there anything I should know about this method? Let me know if I shouldn't use it.

[BN_Dev]

Putting items on the pasteboard (or "scratch space" as it's called in Scribus) is not some hack, it's a fundamental workflow that is entirely normal and you SHOULD use it.  Every publication will drag items to and from it as they layout a page, and only the items that are on the page will make it in to the PDF.  Everything on the pasteboard is simply ignored.

A lot of working documents will be littered with eye-catching text frames of notes and reminders, content that still needs to be put in the layout, and so on.  This is the whole reason for it existing.

More professional tools have a mechanism to catch anything left on the pasteboard before export. QuarkXPress has job jacket rules to test for this; Scribus has a preflight check for "Check for items not on a page". Turn that on.

An alternative approach might be to create a new layer just for notes that can appear on the page itself, and make that layer non-printable.  But a lot of professionals don't want to make mistakes so enforcing an empty pasteboard before export means you definitely haven't missed anything.

[rogerty]

Thank you for the answer and giving context about workflow and other software. I appreciate it.