Inspired by this conversation, I hacked up this functional comment link:

http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2015/04/24/Commenting-in-org-files/

It has a custom link type that exports in html and latex, and when you
click on it, it asks if you want to delete the comment.

John

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On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Vikas Rawal <
vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> wrote:

> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> Why use footnotes when you can use todonotes?
> >
> > Good question!
> >
> > It's personal preference: I prefer footnotes as I am often using narrow
> > margins and anything more than a boxed footnote number is too
> > much...  However, it is trivial to change the export template to use
> > todonotes if that's what Vikas prefers.
> >
> > The key message I was trying to get across is the use inlinetasks to
> > leverage the capabilities of org for TODO management.
> >
>
>
> Thanks all. It has been lovely to see all the various solutions on offer.
> I thought I was posting a lame query, and was feeling a little sheepish
> when I first sent it. But it has been nice to see these various approaches,
> with their little ingenuities.
>
> Wonderful org friends, thank you once again.
>
> Vikas
>