I'd say turn on notifications and remember which discussion area you posted in

If you know the specific member you are looking for you can type that in the search box and it will populate the members for you that either have part of that name or match that name.

If it a specific discussion that you are looking to see comments on I would also attempt to use the top search bar or if it was recent you can look at the activity feed on the activity dashboard and it should be somewhere in that list...somewhere lol.

problem is I can't read my scribbles :)

Ok thanks

Put an @ in the search then type their name

Also if you go to your settings https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/home/my_profile

You can turn on email notifications and get notified when people respond

Also have a look at my post here https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/wayne-wallace/blog/best-way-organize-emails

You may want to look at NoteBooks App

I use it for all my writing you can see me demo it here

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/wayne-wallace/blog/how-to-be-more-productive-at-work

I always write off line in it and then copy and paste into where I'm posting. Once you have the experience of losing a connection and loosing everything you type when you try to post you will do the same thing.

I don't use rapid writer...I used it the other day and I didn't see any benefit to it because I don't use Street Articles at this point. The cool thing about rapid writer is once you write an article you can post directly to Street Articles.
I just a word doc to plan out my articles then copy and paste it.