I would like an ingame notepad feature :O

It would be very nice if we could have a Notepad inside the game.

eg. you do a /note and a window pops up, and you can add notes to it that would be saved in a local text file.

Information and the likes and small notes you would like to keep track on, would be nice if you could just pull it out and note down stuff, that you would like to be able to remember or able to pull up.

If you have open macro slots that would probably work great for this. Each macro has 15 lines worth of text, and you get 100 slots per character, and 100 global slots as well.

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Originally Posted by LilimoLimomo

If you have open macro slots that would probably work great for this. Each macro has 15 lines worth of text, and you get 100 slots per character, and 100 global slots as well.

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Or they could add a notes feature, which would be much easier to access or use than relying on macros with limited lines.

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Originally Posted by Rehayem

Or they could add a notes feature, which would be much easier to access or use than relying on macros with limited lines.

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Yeah, they could. And if they did I think that would be awesome. But in the likely case that they don't, the option I described above can be used in the game as we speak. Sometimes when you don't get what you want, you have to be scrappy and find other ways to make the best of things.

Though that reminds me, as someone who doesn't have any free macro slots to devote to such things, another possibility would be to use that feature I never hear anyone talk about...what's it called again...? I literally can't remember. That thing where you can make in-game chat boards, those could probably also be leveraged for notes. Probably some advantages compared to macros and some disadvantages, depending on exactly what your use cases are. So that's another possible solution if CBU3 doesn't make a genuine notes feature.

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Originally Posted by Themarvin

It would be very nice if we could have a Notepad inside the game.

eg. you do a /note and a window pops up, and you can add notes to it that would be saved in a local text file.

Information and the likes and small notes you would like to keep track on, would be nice if you could just pull it out and note down stuff, that you would like to be able to remember or able to pull up.

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That would be super useful if the window could be persistent.

When I'm doing high end duties I constantly have post-its glued to the sides of my monitor to remind me of clockspot, partner, Limit Cut sequence, etc.

Roleplayers would also find this tool really useful to pre-write stuff before is their turn to post. Paragraph RP tends to take quite a while to go.

I'd love this addition!

A notepad would be so good!

A notepad would be great, especially on console.

I do use macros as the next best thing, but they are very limiting.

It would also be nice to be able to add a tracker of how many items you need to collect for something.

A positive bump to the top, it would be a token of appreciation if we could have this marvelous feature.

I would love a feature like this, particularly if you could pin the notes to your HUD. It would pair nicely with the in-game raid planner thing they are rolling out.

I used to use a sticky note app that allowed you to place always-on-top windows with notes so that I could easily see notes during progression, and it was VERY useful.

Is it really that arduous to just tab out and open notepad?

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Originally Posted by CidHeiral

Is it really that arduous to just tab out and open notepad?

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Yes.

+1 for this feature request.

A notepad isn't a bad idea, but they can do better.

The first improvement would be a spreadsheet, just a basic one that can do simple math. It wouldn't be hard to implement. Obviously, you can take notes in a spreadsheet if you want.

The next upgrade would be to offer an in-game web browser. This would let you take notes or run your spreadsheet using a web-based service as well as giving you access to web resources like Garlond Tools, Aryalla's, Lulu's, Icy Veins, Discord, Reddit, X, and so on.

Now I don't want any of these for myself: my spouse and I are PC players and always have at least a second monitor available. But given how heavily we rely on those second monitors, I can see people with only one monitor, such as console users, could use a way to do what I do on another monitor in the game instead.

A notepad would be very nice for crafting purposes... Could write down in-game all the things you need to go get...

You can create your own private Fellowship and use the message board as a note pad.

Some features I would want in an in-game note pad: being able to link multiple items on a page, being able to link multiple map coordinate flags on a page, and being able to link multiple crafts on a page.

Whatever notepad the devs would add to the game isn't going to be as good as whatever notepad you use outside of the game. Spending time on this instead of other things would be time wasted.

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Originally Posted by Rongway

Whatever notepad the devs would add to the game isn't going to be as good as whatever notepad you use outside of the game.

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"Not as good" still beats not having anything at all, which seems to be the situation console users find themselves in.

Another existing feature that's close is /echo. It'll send the text to your chat window, and you can separate it into it's own tab. I use this when making harvesting lists.


The primary downside compared to OP's request is this does not save between sessions.

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Originally Posted by Rongway

Whatever notepad the devs would add to the game isn't going to be as good as whatever notepad you use outside of the game. Spending time on this instead of other things would be time wasted.

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Well you are missing the point then, it need to be as simple as Notepad outside of the game and save to an .txt file or similar that you then even outside of the game can open up in notepad or similar program to add to as well and the likes, I am suggesting this due to that is is a very simple and helpfull feature.

And also what do you mean with as good as whatever outside of the game... if you opened notepad, only thing you can see in it is that you can write plain text in it and that is pretty much it.

It is brilliant for adding notes inside the game, and the bonus to it that you can further edit it outside the game, console users would benefit from it as well, it wont take any server ressources either as it would be a local file on a local system.

You get rid of having to tab outside the game, or switch to another screen as well.

I thought about this when going after rare animals in the island sanctuary because when I came across one I would jot down the time of day, weather, and position. I know there is an outside source with all that info, but that takes away all the fun of going after them.

Then I noticed the new crafting recipes guarantees a capture, and I start thinking, "FFS SE, do you have to effin simplify every single effin thing?"

Anywho, notepad.... count me as a yay.

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Originally Posted by Rongway

Whatever notepad the devs would add to the game isn't going to be as good as whatever notepad you use outside of the game. Spending time on this instead of other things would be time wasted.

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How a notepad can be even 'not as good'? It's just a place to write text. Even the basic windows notepad is extremely barebones, you can't get more basic than that, and that's exactly the suggestion. To have one ingame so we don't have to alt tab to do it, especially when you could have the feature pinned somewhere. Imagine if I alt tabbed to check my raid notes on the fly lol.

But nearly every single computer in the world has notepad. XD

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Originally Posted by Haru304

But nearly every single computer in the world has notepad. XD

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You can't run Notepad on a PlayStation, though.

I feel like the power of an in-game note pad is being underestimated. It could provide more than just a page to write text. Items could be linked on a page, map flags could be linked on a page, crafting recipes could be linked on a page. alarms could be activated from a page, etc. A lot more game specific features than just Word or Notepad apps.

Being able to store item and map links would be pretty neat. That would be a reason to use an ingame notepad over an external.

If you play from the steam version you can open the steam interface wich has a note-pad built in

Regardless, as someone who uses the steam notepad, I believe having the feature baked in-game for all platforms would be a nice QoL improvement, its one of those "I didn't know I needed it untill now!" kind of updates for most people

I would love this feature. Even on pc, having things put together that you can access inside the same GUI/active screen just feels better also. Upvote for this request from me~~

/I am still going to give it a friendly bump again, unfortunately it feels like posts drowns in a figure of speech.

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Originally Posted by CidHeiral

Is it really that arduous to just tab out and open notepad?

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It could be more useful for console players than PC really, but it's still a nice QoL idea.