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[Feedback Needed] In what ways are you using the "notes" fields?

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Riley D.
Roll20 Team
We're working on some new functionality for the Journal feature, and one thing that may be happening is moving some of the text blobs (particularly the "bio", "notes" and "gmnotes" fields) off of our real-time sync system and onto a different system. What this would mean for API scripts is that you wouldn't be able to access those properties anymore (or at least, it would require some sort of separate function to fetch the value asynchronously). So I'm just curious who, if anyone, is making use of these properties in current API scripts and in what way. I'll then use that info to determine how to move forward in adapting the API to this change if it should come to pass.
<a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/140161/script-store-js-objects-as-json-in-roll20-objects#post-140161" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/140161/script-store-js-objects-as-json-in-roll20-objects#post-140161</a> It's been used to store states of objects, but this is the only real published example I know of.
I was aware of that one...but that was also written before the "state" variable was persisted, which is definitely a much better way to store data than saving to the "notes" field(s). Thanks for pointing that out, though.
only thing I was planning on doing was having a script written that stored status effects in the GM notes of character journals for easy checking of such things between games. Haven't done it yet, cause I have no idea as yet how to write that script.