Stop losing track of your scenes. Hierarchy Notes attaches notes, status badges and TODOs directly to your GameObjects.
Visible in the Hierarchy, floating in the Scene View, and listed in one clickable Overview panel.
A TASK TRACKER THAT LIVES WHERE YOU WORK.
Right-click any GameObject, add a note, pick a status (TODO, WIP, Broken, Final). The row gets tinted, a badge appears, and hovering the note icon shows the full text. Need more detail? Add private Remarks.
longer notes visible only in the edit window and the Overview, never cluttering your scene. Open the Overview panel (Window > Hierarchy Notes > Overview) to see every note in the project, grouped by scene and prefab, filter by status, search, ping, edit. Your TODO list, clickable.
NOTES YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE
Floating labels in the Scene View stay visible next to their objects. No selection needed. Labels are anchored to the visual center of the mesh, display up to 4 lines, and can be dragged to reposition (with a leader line back to the object). Right-click to reset position or edit.
PREFAB MODE & INSTANCE INDICATORS
Annotate inside Prefab Mode. Every scene instance of an annotated prefab shows a compact indicator on its root : colored status bars (one per status present) and a note count. Click the indicator to jump straight into the prefab. Notes survive prefab conversion thanks to safe auto-relink. Orphaned notes can always be relinked manually from the Overview.
CLEAN BY DESIGN
All notes live in ONE ScriptableObject asset, no components ever added to your GameObjects. Zero impact on prefabs, builds or Git diffs. Commit the data asset to share notes with your team. Visual preferences stay per-user.
ROBUST WHERE IT MATTERS
- Full Undo support on every operation (create, edit, delete, move, relink)
- Shift+Enter for line breaks in notes
- Customizable colors, tint opacity, label size and appearance (Edit > Preferences > Hierarchy Notes)
- Safe auto-relink with grace window, no surprise note resurrection.
- Right-click in Scene View: native menu on Unity 2023.2+, Ctrl+Right-Click on 2021.3–2023.1
- Overview navigation : jump between scenes and prefabs without touching the Project window.
- Unity 2021.3 LTS > Unity 6.3 · All render pipelines, Editor-only, never ships in builds