HandyNotes
Handy Notes for your maps. This addon is intended to be a small and simple replacement for Cartographer_Notes and functions in a similar manner.
Use /handynotes to access options.
You can add notes to the maps in 3 ways:
- Alt-RightClick on the world map to add a note.
- Use "/hnnew" without the quotes to add a note at your current location.
- Use "/hnnew x,y" without the quotes to add a note at location x,y on your current zone's map.
HandyNotes supports plugins that other authors can write to display their own set of notes on the map. See this link for a list of such addons: https://www.wowace.com/search?search=handynotes
Changes for WoW 8.0 / Battle for Azeroth
- Changed to HereBeDragons-2.0, since HBD-1.0 is not compatible with WoW 8.0 / BfA
- All plugins that reference HereBeDragons directly need to adjust as well
- Due to the massive changes in the map and all related logic, HandyNotes 1.5.0 will introduce changes to the Plugin API as well. Changes listed below are preliminary, however they are available in the latest Alpha builds if running on the BfA Beta.
- Removed API: HN:GetMapFile(C, Z), HN:GetCZ(mapFile), HN:GetZoneToCZ(zone), HN:GetCZToZone(C,Z)
- Rationale: C/Z values no longer exist in WoW 8.0
- Removed API: HN:GetZoneToMapID(zone)
- Rationale: Using localized zone names is generally a bad idea, and the old MapIDs no longer exist
- Deprecated API: HN:GetMapFiletoMapID(mapFile), HN:GetMapIDtoMapFile(mapID),
- These have been deprecated and will be removed in the future, but are still provided for compatiblity with existing plugins (data is no longer available in-game, mapping provided by HereBeDragons-Migrate)
- Changed API: HN:GetContinentZoneList(uiMapIdOrmapFile)
- This API can now be called with either a mapFile (legacy mode), in which case it'll continue to return a list of legacy mapIDs for old plugins, or called with a new uiMapID, in which case it'll return a list of uiMapIDs
- New API: plugin:GetNodes2(uiMapID, minimap)
- This is equivalent to the old GetNodes call, except that it handles the new uiMapID type.
- The Iterator should return:
- coord, uiMapID, iconpath, scale, alpha
- Mapfile was replaced by uiMapID, level has been dropped
- The old plugin:GetNodes API is still available and the data is automatically converted, if a conversion is possible. It is strongly recommended to switch to GetNodes2, so you can support new zones!
- Removed API: HN:GetMapFile(C, Z), HN:GetCZ(mapFile), HN:GetZoneToCZ(zone), HN:GetCZToZone(C,Z)
Changes from v1.2.0 to v1.4.0
- HandyNotes now uses HereBeDragons-1.0 instead of the unmaintained Astrolabe
- Plugins which referenced Astrolabe directly should be updated, and ideally not require anything the HandyNotes API does not provide
- New HandyNotes API function: HN:GetContinentZoneList(mapFile), retrieve a list of zones inside a continent (Z -> mapID hash table)
I'll be quoting myself again. And again
The blue skulls (things i already collected) on the map won't disappearing until i close the map and then open again. Any way to fix it?
Thank you for the update , love your addon :D
Since it is update day and the author has once again chosen not to put in an option that allows users to NOT override the TomTom keybind that has existed for ages:
The fix/workaround is further down the comments still, and credits to brunokbcao and durandal42 for making it, so just to put it here for better visibility:
In Handynotes/HandyNotes_HandyNotes.lua, line 473:
Replace:
if WoWRetail then
with:
if true then elseif WoWRetail then
Hi,
first of all, I want to say great adddon!
Could you update it to the latest Classic Era Game Version of 1.15.1?
Would be awesome, thanks a lot in advance!
I realize i lost all my notes today...... I spent the entire expansion adding notes to complete all i needed later and all is gone, I am really sad.
Anyone knows of a similar addon? I canĀ“t use any handynotes addon because this one is not updated and in game i see i need the basic one to use the rest of them. But there are no updates in the last months and no answers so please...i anyone knows...tell us
Any updates planned soon for 10.2.5?
if u can't update your add then can u at least tell us how to do it ourselves
Could you separate these two buttons?"Hide this note" and "Restore all hidden notes". Many times after "Hide this note" I click on "Restore all hidden notes" and start over. It's quite annoying. Thanks
Dude update your aaddon alright. Where at 10.2.5 for christ sake.
How can I change the keybind to add a new note on the map? I've used Alt+RightClick for a long time and I don't wanna change it.
Thanks!
Please update if possible , thanks for this great addon .
First wanted to say thanks for all the work you have done on this addon over the years. Really a great one.
Would it ever be possible to edit the pre-made notes from this and other plugins? So like if I'm hunting old rares I could add info to the note about spawn time or random things? Not even a full edit functionality would be needed, just an additional line or two.
I find myself often having to add extra notes nearby a rare note and the map can get a little cluttered.
Hi,
first of all, I want to say great adddon!
Could you update it to the latest Classic Era Game Version of 1.15.0 (Season of Discovery)?
Would be awesome, thanks a lot in advance!
Does anyone know of an alternative for this? As of today, the add-on isn't working anymore and not showing anything.
Great addon. Please update
Hello there dev,
Is there any update for this lovely addon?Especially for 10.2
plz updatet
Hi, since Dragonflight launched, I am still getting the lua errors for here be dragons cannot be found:
Message: Interface/AddOns/HandyNotes_Vendors/addon.lua:6: Cannot find a library instance of "HereBeDragons-1.0".
Time: Tue Nov 21 17:49:20 2023
Count: 1
Stack: Interface/AddOns/HandyNotes_Vendors/addon.lua:6: Cannot find a library instance of "HereBeDragons-1.0".
[string "=[C]"]: in function `error'
[string "@Interface/AddOns/BlizzMove/Libs/LibStub/LibStub.lua"]:23: in function `LibStub'
[string "@Interface/AddOns/HandyNotes_Vendors/addon.lua"]:6: in main chunk
Locals: (*temporary) = "Cannot find a library instance of "HereBeDragons-1.0"."
We are going into 10.2 has there been a fix to this?