Creating a custom note field/display

I have the need to display some schedulers notes (TEXT) that would be tied to activities. I have already explored using notebook items and that is great but you only seem to be able to display them in the Gantt Chart view. I want to be able to display a custom note column (scheduler adds text notes & edits as necessary - eg. Completion was delayed due to power outage)I was wondering if this is eaily done via User defined fields? I have not used that function of the software yet. So in summary I want to be able to display an activity description, start/finish date, variance to baseline and lastly a column for notes. I don’t want to display any Gantt chart info only data. Let me know if you have a solution.