How to indicate a 'non-quote' sections of a note that's primarily quoted materail?

When I’ve got a file that contains a majority of information that is summary or quotation, I don’t necessarily mark the contents of that note as being quotes with a quote block. But, when I’m in that kind of note and I want to inject my observations or comments, I’d like to set them off. Essentially the inverse of a quote block.

Is there a way to have multiple kinds of quote blocks? I don’t need it to pop or be set off as enthusiastically as a Call Out. And, I don’t want a header for that section. What I would like is if I could have one colour of quote block that would be reserved for actual quotes (Orange in my vault, as they are now) and green ones(?) that would be reserved for my comments.

Or, is there another way to indicate this kind of offset of information that would be distinct and ‘subtle’ like a quote block, but look different.

Are you using Dataview? If so, I would suggest using inline fields, and styling them according to your needs. So if you insert something like: [comment:: My comment] into your text, and this can be dedicated paragraphs, or inserts into other text. And you can make the name shorter too.

This would have the added benefit of you being able to query all of your comments afterwards, if that would be of interest. I use similar strategy to mark notes with question, rephrase, important and/or highlights of various stuff.

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This looks like a good idea. Yes, I’m using Dataview, so this is an option. So far I’ve resisted going to inline fields, but maybe this is the moment I get converted.

I’m using Vanilla AMOLED theme and this is what they look like:

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This is what it looks like in Minimal. Quite a bit leaner/cleaner.

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I’m going start looking for how to format the inline fields via CSS. If anyone has a good inline field CSS they’re willing to share or point me to, I’d appreciate it.

This is what I managed to build as a result of my web hunting:

span.dataview.inline-field-key {
	color: #888888;
	background: #000000;
	font-family: var(--font-text); /* Use the default theme font */
}

span.dataview.inline-field-value {
	color: #888888;
	background: #000000;
	border: thin solid;
	border-right: none;
	border-top: none;
	border-bottom: none;
	font-family: var(--font-text); /* Use the default theme font */
}

And this is what it ends up looking like:
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