Can we please be able to put a note for friends?

[TheVigilant]

If possible, can we please have the option to put a note for friends in the friend list? We get to add many players to our friend list and sometimes I forget things about them that I'd prefer to have typed in a note for them. I found this to be very useful in another MMO game and I'd be happy if it was also available in FFXIV.

[Jeeqbit]

It would be helpful, but what you can do is make several categories to describe how you met them and assign them that.

I have one for new players, one for unsynced content, one for savage, one for hunters, one for linkshell/free company and one for friends. I find assigning them these categories helps me remember how I know them if it's been a long time. I assign it based on how I found them so linkshell/free company takes priority over the others.

[Adamantini]

That would be great. I mean, I have several friends who are addicted to change their character names, and every time I got confused, and I end up excluding them from the friends list, because I don't know who they are.

[IckeDerTyp]

I'd like a general in-game note book feature!

But FL comments would be a good start ^^

[ItMe]

OP I love the idea.
This would be very helpful.
If someone on my friends-list takes an extended break, when they come back we can pick right back up where we left off.

That would be great. I mean, I have several friends who are addicted to change their character names, and every time I got confused, and I end up excluding them from the friends list, because I don't know who they are.

Oh man SAME.
The note idea would really help with this.

[Destati]

That would be great. I mean, I have several friends who are addicted to change their character names, and every time I got confused, and I end up excluding them from the friends list, because I don't know who they are.

This. Runescape had (or has) a feature that will tell you what a friend's previous username was if they decided to change it, and having something like that here would be extremely helpful I think.
As someone with the memory of a goldfish, it gets to be quite a bit distressing trying to remember who someone was or how/where I met them.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

It would be helpful, but what you can do is make several categories to describe how you met them and assign them that.

I have one for new players, one for unsynced content, one for savage, one for hunters, one for linkshell/free company and one for friends. I find assigning them these categories helps me remember how I know them if it's been a long time. I assign it based on how I found them so linkshell/free company takes priority over the others.

Oh wow, I never actually thought of using this feature for this exactly. Thanks, I really should do this too!

[Starshower]

I've been wanting this feature for so long! Sometimes I only interact with someone on my friends list once, and then forget how I met them... Or sometimes they were a good friend, but they changed names and I have no idea who they are anymore. Being able to write a note on the friends list would be amazing for that!

[Rasler_Heios]

I support this suggestion. Like some of the previous replies, I have resorted to creating friend groups (one for those I've met via FC, those I've met via mentorship/NN, those from content like Eurka, HOH and PotD, etc.) It helps when I try to narrow down when remembering who is who. The problem occurs when players change names. In the last two weeks, I ran across three players who are in my friend list and I am sure they changes their names yet I don't know them (one was actually from my FC who switched to another FC).

I know this would be low in impact and low in priority in comparison to the many other stuff that the devs are working on, but this would be a nice QoL.

[Jeeqbit]

The most common problem is definitely renames. A lot of people become lalafells and use a lalafell name and there is no chance I know who they are after that.