Theres a place in the Client Status to include Permanent Notes, so if you re-trained your brain to open the Client Status screen with the button at the very top of the Fed info worksheet before scrolling down, you'd see the notes.....but I dont know of a way to have a popup note appear when opening a client file.

When we had paper files, there was a hot pink sheet of paper on the left side of the file for such things. We called it Notes for Succeeding Years. We have an electronic version of it now but it loses something without it being right in your face.

Depending on what exactly you want the notes for ...

You can double click most data fields and get that little detail worksheet.  Anything you write on the left side will carryover to next year.  And because those notes from the left side are carried over, the data field in the next year shows zero, rather than being blank, so that can alert you that there is a note about that item.

Again, that won't solve all things that you need a note for, but it may help with some line-specific notes.

I always add a note for the name  box if I need a note, then when I open clients I take a quick look if I have any notes for that client, and they carry over year to year

We use "PREPARER NOTES" section. Transfers over to following year's data.

Have you ever used that red exclamation point that appears on the left of the Home Base? It's also used on an entry block by right-clicking for "Missing Client Information."

I don't use it, but does it carry forward from year to year?

@Accountant-Man the  red exclamation point does not carryover

Thanks.

If everyone votes for this 'community idea' it has a chance!

https://proconnect.intuit.com/community/proseries-tax-idea-exchange/allow-user-to-require-proseries-...

Where is this?