> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.spott.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Comments

> Discuss a candidate, contact, company, or note where the context lives, and pull a colleague in with an @mention.

**Comments** are the conversation about a record. Instead of asking a colleague about a
candidate in a chat tool, where the question is separated from everything it refers to,
you leave the question on the record itself and the whole thread stays with it.

Comments are available on **Candidates**, **Contacts**, **Companies**, and
[**Notes**](/docs/notes/adding-notes).

## Leave a comment

Open the record and find the **Comments** section. Type your comment and click
**Comment**. Everyone with access to the record sees the thread.

<Frame>
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/spott-docs/nKG-IlBG_HPW_Rhg/images/notes/note-comments.webp?fit=max&auto=format&n=nKG-IlBG_HPW_Rhg&q=85&s=19fc5abb130a7f074979c20e8b1cce2e" alt="A comment thread on a call note, with an @mention" width="1778" height="990" data-path="images/notes/note-comments.webp" />
</Frame>

## Pull someone in with @

Type `@` and start typing. The picker matches **people and records** together, each
result labelled with what it is:

* A **colleague**, to bring them into the thread
* A **candidate**, **contact**, **company**, or **job**, to point at the record you mean

Mentioning a colleague notifies them **in the app, by email, or both**, following what
they have chosen under **Settings → Notifications**. See
[notifications](/docs/settings/notifications).

Mention the person who can actually answer rather than writing an open question: the
mention is what turns a comment into something that reaches someone. Mentioning a record
does the opposite job, giving whoever reads the thread a way straight to the candidate or
job you are talking about, without pasting a link.

## Comments and the AI

Comments are **indexed for [Ask AI](/docs/get-started/ai-in-spott)**, the same as your
other content, so a question like "what did the team say about this candidate" reaches
the discussion and not only the notes.

That is worth knowing in both directions. A decision explained in a comment stays
findable months later. So does a throwaway line, so write comments you would not mind
being surfaced back to you.

<Tip>
  **A note is what happened, a comment is what you think about it.** Notes carry the
  content of a call or a meeting; comments are the team discussing that content. Both are
  searchable, so the split is about keeping a record readable, not about hiding anything:
  keep the debrief in the note and the "can you have a look at this one" in a comment.
</Tip>