I have been waiting for this a few years!
I write many comments on the text due to my complicated stories and research. I use comments because it needs to be right next to the relevant part. It makes things really difficult for me that comments are still not searchable. They are in windows!
Patchwork has a read aloud facility for a long time. Why not Papyrus? This is not just for fun - but to have text read aloud makes one notice things in the working and flow of language one can’t always get the same way by reading it.
I don’t have any news on searchable comments, but here’s a neat trick you can do with the Navigator to help out with working with them!
In the Navigator, you can choose what story elements it shows. So if you’re super focused on Comments, but don’t use scenes and events that much, you can set the Navigator to only show comments.
Here’s an example, where I’ve toggled off everything else, but chapters and comments, so the Navigator is just a list of chapters, and comments below them:
