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A perhaps silly but effective (for me) way I'm doing this is to add a line of comment text as a folder or filename in the filter section(s). As long as its text is not an actual file or folder name, FFS will ignore it.

Oops, sorry I missed that before.

Just noticed, that if I made and saved a change within the GUI, the comments I added outside of the GUI (using Notepad++) were removed.

Plerry, I've been trying your idea as a work-around. It appears to be working. I've been able to add comments as their own lines or add them inline after a specific command with a space in between. However, I have no experience with XML - is the inline method supported? I've read some articles ...

I also would like the ability to add notes to a job configuration - perhaps another tab in the Synchronization settings window, a note field for each folder pair line. It would help to remember the rationale for the pair and especially the filtering. I've not been able to see where/how to add ...