I like that reviewers and co-authors can see comments, but I'd also like the ability to have these not be displayed to readers.  For me, "Readers" are customers and end users, whereas co-authors are other employees of my company.  We might need to make comments and discuss a document in progress without that conversation visible to end users, although the end users are welcome to see the most recent version of the text itself.

This would be as easy as adding a check box to the sharing panel:  "Hide comments from Readers?"

Our team uses Buzzword as a collaboration tool. It's a real drag to constantly have to check my Buzzword account to see if documents have been updated and if there are new comments.

Someone else posted an idea about highlighting new comments -- that's great, but I'd also like to be notified via email that changes have been made to a document in my list.

Workgroup needs to keep comments in a document, but hide them from recipients when either shared, printed, or exported. In addition to hide comments, needs "hide comments on output".

Use case is: group of reporters works on a story. many comments. need to archive comments. output to MS Word and submit to publication. They don't want the publication to see the comments. The current alternative/workaround is to make a copy of the document, delete each comment, then export the copy.

Workgroup needs to keep comments in a document, but hide them from recipients when either shared, printed, or exported. In addition to hide comments, needs "hide comments on output".

Use case is: group of reporters works on a story. many comments. need to archive comments. output to MS Word and submit to publication. They don't want the publication to see the comments. The current alternative/workaround is to make a copy of the document, delete each comment, then export the copy.