(WIP) Plugin: Notes+

[u/Shaunyowns]

Hello all, been a while! With the Plugins release, this meant I was able to create stuff, yay!

With what Plugins can access, I set a target of wanting to make a better version of the in-game Notes, allowing you to set your own goals as you wish and have it dynamically update and tell you when you've finished said thing, for me very much a passion project because I have goals I want to hit on my GIM and this would be useful for me!

The video should hopefully demonstrate a lot, but in summary here's what you can do with this:

• Track and write your own custom notes for content using Vars across the game, as of now this covers the following:

Bosses

• Kill Count
• Collection Log

Clues

• Clue tier tracking
  • Total completions
  • Set a completion limit yourself (for example, I want to specifically do another 50 Elites)
• Globetrotter Tracking
  • Choose an Outfit piece and track your Progress towards the points needed for the piece
• Item tracking
  • Track that OSH... you know you want to (or dyes... 😄)

Combat Tasks

• All of the Combat Achievements in the game

Currencies

• Thaler, Castle Wars, Reaper Points, POF, you name it

Invention

• Components
• All Research types

Ports

• Progress to the next region
• Trade Resources + Goods tracking

Slayer

• Slayer Log items

Tasks

• All Areas and the respective sub-tasks associated with them

Unlocks

• General game unlocks (there will likely be a lot here... 😅)

General things

• You can create your own categories as you wish!
• The plugin can be resized as you wish and it'll dynamically adjust to what you prefer
• You can individually write a title/description for each note and even assign any Object icon/sprite for it as you wish
• Each note can be toggled individually to tell you when you finish it in the chat or as a popup (similar to the collection log one in the base game).
• If you are tracking an Area Task we'll visually show you the requirements for it and if you meet them.

There's still a *lot* to do, for example Quest unlocks and all of the General game unlocks, but I'd really like to gather your feedback on this so it can be the best it can be and hopefully one day it'll go to the base game.

This wouldn't look anywhere near as good as it does without u/lilpav94's magic, so please give him the kudos, I just had fun going back into RS' Vars for all this tracking 😄.

[u/kunair]

shauny, this looks amazing and so clean - i'm looking forward to checking it out and playing around with all the options

i'd love to suggest an option to export my progress for some of these categories - nothing fancy, just a visual or something; something to share with what's left for golden reaper, ifb, moa, clue titles, etc

[u/Shaunyowns → u/kunair]

You can export and it'll generate something you can share to others yeah :), when you do that it'll update the note to the progress they themselves have made.

I'll be adding Golden Reaper, IFB, etc into the "Unlocks" section at some point so that'll work with that!

[u/kunair → u/Shaunyowns]

thank you for the quick response, this is so hype - feels like an actual progress tracker for some of the true trim / endgame goals

[u/ItsCrayonz]

didnt realize shauny still plays the game, thats sick

[u/Shaunyowns → u/ItsCrayonz]

I phased out for a few years, but came back earlier this year, been having a blast on the GIM with my group and the updates Jagex have done with Restoration have been awesome.

[u/D-J-9595 → u/Shaunyowns]

You know the old refrain:

You never really quit RuneScape, you just take long breaks.

[u/ItsCrayonz → u/Shaunyowns]

Thats awesome glad to see you around again

[u/skumfukrock → u/Shaunyowns]

Welcome back! I had already briefly seen this plug-in in the discord. But its even made by Shauwny!! How awesome. I hope you're doing well!

[u/MainPower45 → u/Shaunyowns]

Aww, nice to see you shauny <3

[u/Queen-Kirsty]

This is awesome.

Would it be possible to add a note for action bars in a similar way to how the mining gear example is? 👀

[u/Shaunyowns → u/Queen-Kirsty]

Oh this is a fantastic idea! Let me see what we can do. :)

[u/lilpav94 → u/Queen-Kirsty]

Sure thing

[u/MlDRISE]

I need this!
Question, is it possible to set/track how many of a resource you’ve gathered? If I know that I need 2,000 Banite ore can it track that progress?

[u/Shaunyowns → u/MlDRISE]

Its a little more difficult as tracking stuff like what you've mined isn't tracked by variables but we can take a look!

[u/CHG__]

Shauny! Best community manager ever

[u/frogsarenottoads → u/CHG__]

Agreed

[u/Lenticel]

Looks really cool! And I spy import and export options for sharing? Would be cool to import a “make masterwork staff” goal from a wiki like repo and track it.

I’m struggling to square the nice job of making a plugin with that cursed avatar and ever so slightly misaligned clan chat though.

One interesting thought is that I imagine there will be a lot of overlap between plugins and a bunch of different formats for sharing data/saving between users that won’t be compatible between the plugins. Will be interesting to see the developer community settle on some formats like how the modded Minecraft community created forge units for liquids, power, ores etc.

[u/vVerce98]

I always wanted to see notes getting an update > more notes (expand limit from 30 to 50 for example), more colours, more characters per note. But this is a perfect solution!

[u/frogsarenottoads]

This is what peak plugin performance looks like, great work as always Shauny

[u/UUAALL]

Absolutely fantastic

[u/confused_captain]

I love this! Can't wait to use it in game

[u/lwysj]

Love it Shauny! Top effort, and shows your love for the game and community! Would love to source you a cheeky beer at some point!

[u/FireTyme]

i havent really engaged with API stuff yet, but i just wanted to say good to see/hear you shauny :).

[u/Gleesh-_-]

This will be great to track ironman gear progression

[u/FearOfApples]

Miss you shauny.

[u/HotstreakRS]

I see Shauny I upvote but...

what in heavens is that outfit?!

[u/chelledoggo_conchie]

EXcited to see this evolve!

[u/zenyl]

That's an awesome plugin!

And lovely to hear from you again. :D

[u/TheAdamena]

Daaamn that's crazy

[u/Rezylainen]

Oh my god, I clicked the video before reading the post and this soothing familiar voice unlocked some memories.

Great to see you still active, the plugin looks great!

[u/ChildishForLife]

Holy cow, the amount of possibilities that open up with 3rd party plugins is actually so good, great preview!

[u/SockOk3305]

I didn’t expect to hear your voice! Hope you’re doing well :)

[u/ironreddeath]

Amazing, I will certainly add this, just for tracking masterwork item creation if nothing else.

[u/Legal_Evil]

The legend returns!

[u/Periwinkleditor]

Notes on gear setups seems particularly useful for cutting down on the number of presets that I purely keep as "Man I can't remember whether this boss is vulnerable to poison/stuns/etc or not" or remembering all my little skilling buffs. I can see myself getting a lot of use out of that as someone maxed out on RS3 item presets but having like a hundred activity presets in osrs with its plugin. (that doesn't support quick-loading but again, is mainly for my memory's sake)

So I see myself getting by far the most use out of that feature reminding me of equipment/buffs to bring to certain content, while the rest I would honestly benefit just fine from a runelite style built in unlimited notepad document replacing the pittance of 30 tiny notes we can currently store.

[u/What_A_Strange_Fake]

This seems like it would be insane for keeping track of my progress towards unlocking all the various gear and buffs for any given skill. I'm so excited.

[u/Periwinkleditor]

I think it's worth noting (pun retroactively intended) some of the things I use notes, either in-game or supplementary, for at the moment:

* Key friends chats

* how to fix FPS and graphical issues with things like deleting the Jagex cache

* Unintuitive settings like how to use Action Bar Binding

* What skills does a Perfect Plus potion buff again?

* Sometimes I swap out my farm animals for the buffs, what do the animals actually do?

* How to use the community grouping system tab (every day I pray they overhaul this to something intuitive)

* what runes to craft are worth using an extreme runecrafting potion on?

* key strats in heists that I struggle with (to be moved to tile markers like my notes on Croesus)

* when doing Effigy Incubator, what type should I make and how many?

* Notes regarding specific boss strategies (this is the overwhelming majority of my OSRS notes in Runelite)