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[AzeaBraxi]

As title, an addition I always wish for when playing is an in-game notepad.

A new tab in the Intel screen where the player can write down whatever they want to remember. (Where they stashed goods, locations of nice planets, plans etc.)

Sure it isn't hard to keep notes yourself, but it takes you out of the game and hurts the immersion, finding notes can take time/be a hassle, it would keep notes in a single place, it would make sure you didn't mistake notes from a different playthrough as the ones for the current playthrough.

It is only a small thing, but it always bugs me.

[Vanshilar]

I wish for the same thing! Especially since, depending on work and RL, sometimes it may be weeks or months before I can spend time on the game again, and by then I'll have forgotten what I was doing. It'd also be great to have a save game notepad, i.e. one that shows when you mouseover the save game in the loading screen, so you can put notes like "this is when I'm about to fight fleet X" or "this is me trying out this particular fleet build" etc.

In the meantime there's the Captain's Log mod which provides much of this functionality. It's definitely worth using!

[Grievous69]

Come on Alex, we won't have a 1.0 without an in-game mini Excel

Jokes aside it really would be nice to be able to write something somewhere convenient and readily available + markers.

[Jackundor]

yes please, i want this

hell, i'd even like to be able to make notes and stuff on the map and do stuff like being able to measure the distance between two points and so on, though that is maybe better left to modders...

[Serenitis]

100%.
Everything needed to play a game (at least somewhat) effectively should be inside that game.
Writing stuff down got thrown out of my window of acceptable 'requirements' in the early/mid 90s. And good riddance.

At the absolute minimum, even just a flag/icon you could put on a star on the intel map would be enough to let you know there's <something> you want to revisit there.

[LinWasTaken]

10'000% agree. especially if it were to be a small popup whenever you mouse over an individual system that had a note on it.

[Kakroom]

Captain's log, cycle c+219.3.28.

Encountered a terran world on the verdant Valefar starsystem. I foresee excellent potential in stripmining this place and filling it with Jangalan slaves. However, the local Vtuber nexus will need to be appeased before we send our boomer fleets to bombarding the planet from orbit. Allocate at least 6,000,000 strips of latinum for superchats in the coming weeks.

I support this suggestion

[Drazan]

100% percent agree. Lot of times i had found good planets in starsystems but forgot where, or rare enemies from mods.

[montaropdf]

I would also like to have some note taking functionality in-game, along with custom markings on the map

[ravenmore]

Pardon the necromancy, this is just the first thread I found about this...

After playing Dredge (of all things) I realized how much I miss custom map markers. Or at least an in-game notepad.

Found a useful abandoned carrier, wanted to remember where it is, had to alt+tab and create a note file. I mean it's not terrible, but would be neat.

If it has to use existing systems perhaps a way to create your own Intel?

[Killer of Fate]

i loved the Deus Ex notepad so much, even though I never used it. Such a basic and yet wondrous feature

Just imagine being able to write a journal about your character and then being able to like post it to lore or something...

[Dadada]

We'll get bonked for necroing. ^^
But our prayers were heard: https://fractalsoftworks.com/2024/04/10/save-load-ui-autosave-intel-map-markers-and-more/

For now:
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=20161.0 <- I use this one
There is also: https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=26122.0

[ravenmore]

Of course I would necro a post about something already in the works

Officially hyped!

[Dadada]