Can we get an in-game sticky note/reminder function?

It would be cool if the devs could implement a small window, a resizable, moveable, HUD element where we can type in plain text up to 255 characters (same as a single macro). Sometimes, I want to write myself a reminder as a sort of a to-do list for things in game. Other times I want to take notes about mechanics in a new fight without having to resize my window and open another application or even write things with pen and paper. This could also help other people for learning new fights if they could write things in the window like "if I get green mark goto A, if I get red mark goto B" etc. You might be saying "then people would just copy and paste an entire encounter's textguide into it!", but people can technically already do this anyway using a series of macros with the /echo command, so why not streamline it all together?

Write is as a macro, name it Notes.

Code:

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/echo This is a note I am writing to myself.

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You can put it on a hotbar and bam, instant reminder as when you click it you'll get "This is a note I am writing to myself" right there in chat!
If you set it to macro #0 you can even include the command to open your macro list and edit it any time as it'll be the first one open.

Code:

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/macros
/echo This is a note I am writing to myself
/echo It's pretty neat!

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Originally Posted by Canadane

Write is as a macro, name it Notes.

Code:

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/echo This is a note I am writing to myself.

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You can put it on a hotbar and bam, instant reminder as when you click it you'll get "This is a note I am writing to myself" right there in chat!
If you set it to macro #0 you can even include the command to open your macro list and edit it any time as it'll be the first one open.

Code:

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/macros
/echo This is a note I am writing to myself
/echo It's pretty neat!

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Is there a way to write that where I don't share my note with the party when I click on it?

/echo just sends it to your chat, not the party chat. You'd need to use /p for that to happen.

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Originally Posted by Mhaeric

/echo just sends it to your chat, not the party chat. You'd need to use /p for that to happen.

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You don't "need to use /p" to accidentally send things to party chat - you just need to forget to put something else.

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Originally Posted by ItMe

Is there a way to write that where I don't share my note with the party when I click on it?

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The easiest way is to set up your "sticky note" macro in advance with /e (for "echo") at the start of every line to ensure that particular line will always display as echo text regardless of your current chat channel.

I have a blank one saved as a template and I'll copy it to another slot if I want to start taking notes.

All that said, what I'd really like (separate to the note macros which I use for longer-term things) would be the ability to create custom quest objectives that go in your journal and show up in that section of your UI. If I want to craft a thing I could set up a shopping list as an objective - "obtain Item X 0/3; obtain Item Y 0/1" and then those get ticked off as I collect the items. Once I have everything, that objective is complete and it moves onto the next objective "craft an Item Z".

Not sure if it would be possible, but it would be great.

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Originally Posted by ItMe

Is there a way to write that where I don't share my note with the party when I click on it?

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As others have said, /echo only gives the message to yourself.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

You don't "need to use /p" to accidentally send things to party chat - you just need to forget to put something else.

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And for my tangentially related nitpick to your tangentially related nitpick, that is only the case if your default chat is set to party.

Yes, I am award of the macro work-around, I included it in the OP. I'm asking for a window where you can input 255 characters of plain text and pin it to the HUD so it's always in view and won't be pushed away like macro text would in the chat log. You could fill it with notes, to-do lists, etc.