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Foreshadow Tracking: setup / payoff notes
Last updated June 10, 2026 · 3 min read
The Notes tab's Foreshadow Tracking column groups your Setup and Payoff notes — mark which scene plants a setup and which pays it off, so a long script doesn't drop threads.
Foreshadow Tracking is a Notes column
Script Studio's Notes tab "By Type" view has three columns: Note, Todo, and Foreshadow Tracking. The Foreshadow Tracking column gathers two note types — Setup (planting a setup) and Payoff (paying it off) — so all your foreshadowing lives in one place.
Why it matters
Writing into Episode 8 of a long series, finding "where did I plant that key prop from Episode 2?" gets hard. Marking foreshadowing with Setup and Payoff notes lets you:
- Mark on a scene: this scene plants a setup (e.g. "an old photo on the lighthouse wall")
- Mark on a later scene: this scene pays it off (e.g. "A. Smith recognises her father in the photo")
- See the whole script's foreshadowing in the Notes tab's "Foreshadow Tracking" column
How to create one
Like any note (Creating notes): in the Write editor, right-click the relevant scene element, make a note, and set its type to "Foreshadow Tracking".
Filter by scope
The Notes tab's "Series / Season / Episode / All" filter narrows Foreshadow Tracking to one season / episode, or shows all of it.
Design intent
Long scripts easily lose track of setup / payoff alignment. Slima moves this from "author memory or an external spreadsheet" to "attached to the scene, tracked centrally in the Notes tab" — lightening the cognitive load of long-form narrative.