vNotePad

A lightweight, feature-rich notepad addon. Built with fast, intuitive mouse modifiers.

Whether you are tracking daily to-do lists, organizing raid assignments, calculating DKP, or saving complex item links, vNotePad is designed to be the only in-game notepad you'll need. Built from the ground up with aggressive CPU optimization, sleek UI, and UX—it sits cleanly on your screen with effectively 0.00% idle CPU usage.

✨ Key Features

• Sidebar & Folder Organization: Categorize your notes into custom, collapsible folders via a sleek sidebar. Pin your most-used tabs to the top header for quick access while keeping everything else neatly filed away. You can easily drag-and-drop to reorder both folders and tabs effortlessly.
• Frictionless Quick Controls: Say goodbye to endless dropdown menus and clunky settings panels. vNotePad is driven by a comprehensive suite of smart mouse modifiers—use Shift, Ctrl, LMB, RMB, and MMB to rename tabs, tweak colors, adjust opacity, and manage your notes in a fraction of a second.
• Advanced Search & Highlight: Instantly find what you're looking for with the in-header search tool. Matches are instantly highlighted within the text and marked with visual tracking ticks directly on the scrollbar.
• Smart Chat Integration: Need to share raid assignments? Middle-Click any tab to intelligently spool and paste its contents directly into your active chat channel (Party, Raid, Guild, or Whisper). Massive text dumps feature a dedicated Paste Manager UI, letting you safely monitor progress or cancel mid-paste.
• Trash Bin Recovery: Accidentally deleted a crucial note or folder? The soft-delete Trash Bin safely caches your recent deletions. Simply click the header's trash icon or type /vnp restore to instantly recover your lost data.
• Item & Spell Link Caching: Drag and drop or Shift+Click items and spells straight into the notepad. vNotePad natively supports hyperlink clicks and caches data in the background so your tooltips never break.
• Zero-Lag Undo/Redo: A highly optimized memory-ring history system lets you seamlessly Undo and Redo across your entire notepad using the < and > header buttons without generating UI stutter.
• Deep Customization: Fully scale and lock the window. Use the header buttons to tweak the background color, adjust the text highlight color, and select custom fonts. Natively supports LibSharedMedia-3.0 to automatically import fonts from ElvUI, WeakAuras, etc.

🧠 Design Philosophy

vNotePad was born out of a genuine frustration with the current state of World of Warcraft note-taking tools. For years, the only available addons have been abandonware—clunky, aesthetically outdated, and weighed down by bloated scripts. I set out to build a modern alternative from scratch, anchored entirely by three core pillars:

• Pristine UI: A pixel-perfect, minimalist workspace. The visual design strips away unnecessary borders and heavy textures to provide a sleek, highly customizable interface that naturally blends into your screen without adding clutter.
• Frictionless UX: I eliminated endless settings panels and nested dropdown menus. Instead, vNotePad is driven by smart, intuitive mouse modifiers. Every interaction—from color-coding folders to pinning tabs—is designed to feel instantaneous, effortless, and integrated into your gameplay.
• Uncompromising Performance: Because World of Warcraft processes all UI elements and addon code through a single CPU core, bloated addons can quickly throttle your framerate. Every single line of vNotePad has been optimized. By utilizing smart buffer history and dynamic event hooks, the addon demands exactly 0.00% idle CPU. It only consumes resources at the exact millisecond you interact with it, fiercely protecting your game's performance.

🔌 Compatibility & Addon Support

vNotePad is completely standalone and requires no dependencies to function perfectly. However, it natively hooks into LibSharedMedia-3.0. If you use popular UI overhauls (like ElvUI, Tukui, Plater, or WeakAuras), vNotePad will automatically detect and import your entire custom font library into its own dropdown menu.

🐛 Feedback & Bug Reports

Since World of Warcraft is constantly updating, UI elements can sometimes shift. If you run into a Lua error, notice a bug, or have a QoL feature request, please leave a comment on the CurseForge page.

💬 Slash Commands

/vnp or /vnotepad - show/hide the notepad.
/vnp help or /vnotepad help - in-game to view the help manual.
/vnp restore - to instantly recover your last deleted tab or folder.
/vnp reset - to safely snap the notepad back to the center of your screen if you ever lose it off-monitor.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Where are my notes saved? Are they shared between characters?

A: Your notes, folders, and window settings are saved globally across your entire account. If you log into an alt, all of your notes will be right where you left them.

Q: How do I safely delete a tab or folder?

A: Use Ctrl + Right-Click on any tab or folder to delete it. Don't worry about accidental clicks—deleted items are instantly sent to the soft-delete Trash Bin. You can view and restore recently deleted items by clicking the Trash icon in the header, or by Middle-Clicking it for a quick restore.

Q: If I make a typo or accidentally delete a large chunk of text, is my data gone forever?

A: Your data is protected by a zero-allocation ring buffer history system. Click the < and > arrows in the header to Undo or Redo your latest mistakes. It safely caches up to 50 structural states across all tabs without generating memory clutter or triggering garbage collection stutters.

Q: Is there a way to quickly hide the notepad without resetting its position?

A: Yes! Simply Right-Click anywhere on the top header (without holding any modifiers) to instantly collapse the window down to just the title bar. Right-click it again to smoothly expand it back to its original size.

Q: I have a massive note containing tens of thousands of characters. Will pasting it into the addon cause a lag spike?

A: Yes. Pasting massive amounts of text all at once will cause a brief game stutter while the interface calculates the word wrapping. This happens because World of Warcraft forces all UI elements to run through a single CPU thread. However, normal daily usage, manual typing, scrolling, and editing utilize heavily optimized local libraries and remain completely lag-free. The addon supports up to 50,000 characters per tab.

Q: How does the "Paste to Chat" feature actually work?

A: Instead of alt-tabbing or copying text manually, simply Middle-Click any of your tabs. The addon will intelligently read the text and spool it into chat based on your active window:

1. Active Chat: If you have your chatbox open and are whispering someone or talking in a channel, it pastes directly into that specific target.

2. Auto-Detect: If your chatbox is closed, vNotePad automatically detects your group status and defaults to your Raid or Party channel.

Q: Will pasting a massive strategy guide disconnect me for spamming?

A: The addon features a built-in safety throttle. If you are pasting a large note (over 800 characters) into a private channel (Party, Raid, Whisper), a Paste Manager prompt will appear to ask for confirmation. Once confirmed, it perfectly paces the output by sending one line every 0.15 seconds. Note: Public channels (Say, Yell) are restricted to 4 lines maximum to prevent server disconnects.