Take A Note – Your Personal Notebook Inside WoW

Ever wished you could write something down without tabbing out of the game?
Take A Note gives you a flexible in-game notebook that just does its job: helping you remember things while you stay fully immersed in Azeroth.

Raid tactics, farming routes, weekly to-dos, RP scripts, shopping lists, random ideas - write down whatever you want, whenever you want. Everything stays neatly stored inside the game.

✨ Features

📝 Notes, Notes, Notes

Organize everything in up to 99 categories
Unlimited notes per category
Rename categories (right click) and individual notes at any time
Multi-column dropdown that handles big category lists without becoming messy
Each note can contain up to 32,000 characters - perfect for long guides or detailed planning

⌨️ Smooth, Comfortable Text Editing

Clean multiline text editor
Undo/Redo system (up to 100 steps)
Automatic undo snapshots while typing
Shift-click item/spell/achievement links directly into your notes or drop items directly into the text box
Click anywhere inside the text window to start typing - no wrestling with the cursor

🎨 Make It Yours

Choose any font from LibSharedMedia
Adjustable font size from tiny to massive
Changes apply instantly

📌 Minimap Button

Gives you quick access to the notebook window
Shows a small tooltip with helpful info
You can show/hide the minimap button with /tan mmb show or /tan mmb hide
Use /tan or /tan help to display all available chat commands

🪟 Drag, Drop, Done

Move the window freely
Position automatically saved
/tan toggle to open/close
/tan reset to put it back in the center

📋 Note Mirror Button

Opens a second mirror window that displays your current note in a clean, read-only frame with the same font and font size
Useful as an on-screen reference while playing - keep tactics, RP text, or notes visible without switching tabs
Resizable, movable, transparency adjustable, and remembers its position
You can hide the mirror note options in the normal options menu

🎯 Smart List Handling

Easily sort your notes by holding Ctrl + Left Click and dragging them up or down

🔍 Search Field

A built-in search field lets you type any word or phrase and quickly look through your entire notebook
Use the up and down arrow buttons to jump to the previous or next match across all notes in all categories (hold down the button for auto search)

☑️ Checkbox Tools

Put a checkmark box in a line with Ctrl + Enter or write at the beginning of a line: [ ]
Right-clicking that line will toggle an X in the checkbox; another right-click removes it
Ctrl + Right Click on the list button will check/uncheck all boxes at once - perfect for to-do lists

📡 Share Notes In-Game

Take A Note includes a built-in share system via WoW's addon chat channel. Open it via Tools -> Share.

You can:

Send Note
Send Note as Note Mirror
Send Category

Targets:

Player (Name-Realm)
Guild
Party
Raid

Receiver safety controls:

Enable/disable incoming shares
Allow all incoming, or filter by rules
Allow by name whitelist
Allow by Guild/Party/Raid channel
Manage allowed names in an in-game list (right-click to remove entries)

Category share behavior:

Large categories are split into multiple parts automatically
Parts are reassembled on the receiver side
Receiver selects destination category early
If destination is not empty, a confirmation popup is shown before overwrite

Reliability features:

Chunking, ACK/retry, sequential part delivery
Better handling for bigger transfers
Raid sending restriction: only Raid Leader or Assistants can send to raid

🔑 Keyboard Shortcut

You can assign a hotkey to open/close Take A Note:

1. Press Esc -> Keybindings in the game menu.
2. Scroll to the "Take A Note" category.
3. Click the "Toggle Window" entry and press your desired key to bind it.

💾 How Saving Works (Important!)

There's a Save/Reload button - clicking it will reload your UI.
This is intentional: WoW addons can only write permanent data to disk during a ReloadUI or logout.

You can type as much as you want and everything stays in memory - but the reload ensures the note is actually saved in your saved variables.

⚙️ Small, Simple Options Panel

Lets you configure:

Font
Font size
Maximum number of categories (press enter after you changed the category number)
Show or hide the options in the note mirror frame when hovered
Window scaling - freely adjust the overall size of the notebook window to your preference
Resizable text area - enable or disable manual resizing of the note editor, giving you full control over how much space your text gets. Change the size with dragging the triangle on the bottom right.
Window Transparency Slider: Adjusts the opacity of the entire window - goes back to full transparency when hovered with the cursor
Background Transparency Slider: Controls how transparent the background is, allowing you to tune readability vs. visibility of the world behind it

🧪 Run Code

Take A Note can execute the entire content of your current note as Lua code.
Use Tools -> Run Code to instantly run full Lua blocks - from simple prints to multi-line functions.

✈️ Import & Export System

Quickly share your notes, categories, or entire notebook with other players - or create backups for yourself.

The Import/Export window lets you turn any note into a compact text string that you can copy, paste, send to friends, or store outside the game. You can also import these strings back into your notebook with full control over where the data goes.

💬 Send Notes To Chat

Send your currently open note directly into any known WoW chat channel via Tools -> Send to Chat.

Features:

Automatically splits long text into safe chat-sized chunks
Preserves line breaks by sending your note line by line
Supports notes up to 32,000 characters
Handles chat throttling automatically
Uses Secure Send support for protected chat situations when needed
Supports whispers to Name or Name-Realm

I've set up a small Discord Server for my addons https://discord.gg/j3vQVnWUYv Feel free to use it if you have any problems, suggestions or just a simple feedback - I am grateful for everything!