WoWNotes
Comprehensive note-taking and collection tracking addon for World of Warcraft. Smart alerts, map pins, and powerful organization tools for the modern player.
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Advanced Notes
Create powerful notes with to-do lists, reminders, and smart categorization. Account-wide or character-specific, with real-time search capabilities.
Player & Item Notes
Auto-detect target information and add custom tooltip lines to items for quick reference and better organization.
Zone Alerts
Smart zone-aware alerts notify you of missing mounts, pets, toys, and achievements when entering zones with collectibles.
Map Pins
Persistent world map pins with custom icons, categories, and pin-to-pin routing for marking important locations.
Collection Integration
Seamlessly integrates with mount, pet, and toy collections with detailed progress tracking and zone-specific missing items display.
Hybrid UI
Built with AceAddon-3.0 backend and Blizzard UI framework. Features sidebar navigation, drag-and-drop, and fully configurable interface.
Changelog
Version R5.2602.0823
February 8, 2026
- Secret Value Error Suppression for Midnight prepatch Lua errors
- Timerunning dungeons and scenarios support
- Engineering portals (wormholes, dimensional rippers, ultrasafe transporters) now show in ESC menu
- Random Hearthstone button reliability using proper toy/item attributes
- Add New Note dialog showing stale note data
- Note title editor now saves when clicking away
- Detailed restore failure reasons for Action Bars
- Secret Number to item tooltips (Blizzard internal IDs)
- Vendor highlighting for unknown collectibles (recipes, toys, mounts, pets, transmog)
- Overlay icons for unknown collectibles in bags and bank
- Alert sound when looting unknown collectibles
- Toast notifications for unknown collectibles
- Recipe detection using tooltip scanning
- Recipe Knowledge tooltip settings not saving
- Recipe tooltips now show which alts know/don't know recipes
- Recipe status colors (Known=Green, Unknown=Red)
- Item level inflation after Midnight squish
- Expansion version tracking (auto-invalidates outdated equipment)
- Tooltip item level comparison format (This/Equip/Diff)
- Cursor Enhancer manual profile management
- Three-ring cursor system (Outer, Middle, Center)
- Color pickers for all cursor ring elements
- Separate opacity controls (in-combat vs out-of-combat)
- Mouse trail effect with customizable length and color
- Center marker types (Dot, Star, Cross, Diamond, Ring)
- Cursor Enhancer Midnight 12.0+ compatibility
Version R5.2602.1222
February 12, 2026
- DE locale file with correct data
- Automatic button resizing for multi-language support (all languages)
- Button text overflow in Notes, Catalog, Settings, Alt Setup
- Complete locale translations (English, French, German, Korean, Russian)
- 850+ new localization strings to all language files
- Converted 859+ English strings to locale system
- Missing TOAST strings (deDE)
- Missing/untranslated strings in Korean TOOLTIP/VALIDATION/VENDOR
- All 1,807+ UI strings fully translated in all languages
- Custom Sell Junk button replacing Blizzard default
- Show Blizzard Junk option (disabled by default)
- Shift+Click sell for individual junk items
- Vendor sell/destroy counts exclude protected items
- Mark as Junk keybind toggle
- Mark as Protected keybind toggle
- Profession panel recipe counts showing 0
- Profession panel reads from WoWNotesData_Professions
- First Craft pending indicators in profession details
- Mobile Telemancy Beacon to Portals (Special Items)
Version R5.2602.1320
February 13, 2026
- Suppression for UIWidgetManager and LayoutFrame secret errors
- Junk/Protected keybind chat notifications
- Junk/Protected marking instantly updates bag overlays
- Vendor panel refreshes immediately when marking items
- WoWNotesBags updates instantly with keybinds
- Marking Protected as Junk removes Protected status
- Overlay icons appear instantly without delay
- Pinned notes now persist across sessions
- Pinned notes auto-reopen on login
- Hide when tasks complete option for daily/weekly notes
- Always show on login if tasks remain option
- Zone pins 30-minute cooldown after closing
- Hyperlink help button enlarged and moved to control panel
- Catalog requirement notice for non-Catalog users
- Standalone basic professions database
- Language selector displays native language forms
Version R5.2601.2921
January 29, 2026
- Shopping List button in Item Notes tab
- Tooltips not showing after Blizzard update
- ESC menu portals with secret value workaround
- Right-click Add to Favorites on portal entries
- Profession portals visibility after Blizzard changes
Version R5.2601.2821
January 28, 2026
- Coordinates hide during Pet Battles
- /wn command not working
- ALT Setup error loading
- Staggered load times reduced (2-8s to 2-5s)
- Database Manager detecting all WoWNotes addons
- Clear SavedVariables for individual or all addons
- Multiple confirmation prompts for DB clearing
- Profile system moved to dedicated tab
- Backup & Restore complete redesign
- Profiles support WoWNotes settings, Keybinds, WoW game settings
- Auto-apply profiles during Alt Setup
- Shopping List moved to standalone addon
Version R5.2601.1206
January 12, 2026
- OneBag unified replacement for WoWBags
- AutoOpen after login lag optimizations
- Icon size slider in OneBag settings
- Side panel for bag selection
- Redesigned list view and category view
- Third view: BagView (Backpack, Bags 1-4, Reagent, Empty slots)
- BagBar updated to match OneBag system
- Auto-open list expanded to 1300+ items
- Shows unknown recipes, pets, toys, transmogs
- Overlays rewritten using Blizzard native system
- User-controlled Enchant, Gem, Enchant+Gem overlays
- Overlay priority sorting with bypass option
- Default scale 1.5, centered at 100%
- AFK lag issues
- AFK ends when ANY key pressed
- Navigation Arrow accepts /way points
- Toast clicking navigates to target or opens note
- Toast auto-adds map pin
- Vendor filters by item type
- Shopping List duplicates consolidate into single count
- Increase required quantity in Shopping List
- Craftable items identified with CRAFT button
- CRAFT creates sub-list with materials
- Right-click items to send to another list
- Search includes all alts, banks, warbands, guild banks
- Alt login updates ONLY that alt (optimization)
- Database cleanup - claimed mail removed
- Merged duplicate bag data (AltTracker + ItemTracker)
- Professions database consolidated
- DB size reduced: 40 chars 25MB → 1.6MB
- Professions moved to WoWNotesData_Professions module
- Send recipes to Shopping List
- See who knows what recipes
- Duplicate vendor entries
- Item Search category
- Instance collections and filters
- Housing indicators
- Toys and flyouts restore correctly in ActionBars
- AltTracker summary fixes
- Character Data Panel (ilvl, enchants, gems, durability)
- Difficulty filter to LFG panel
Version R5.2512.2501
December 25, 2025
- WoWNotes 5.0 - Complete ground-up rewrite
- Brand new Notes system (Players, NPCs, Zones, Items)
- Pinned windows with full customization
- Weekly and daily resetting task lists
- Tooltip integration everywhere
- Alt Tracker overhaul with clean expandable rows
- Keys, Vault, M+ rating, raid progress tracking
- Currency tracking across characters
- Attention flags for characters needing work
- Catalog system - search items across entire account
- Shows where items drop, who sells them, who has them
- Recipe and profession awareness
- Vendor database builds as you play
- Shopping List with multiple lists
- Account-wide search in Shopping List
- Tooltip and overlay integration for Shopping List
- Import lists from plain text or Base64
- Alerts for loot, vendors, and AH
- One Bag system (WoWBag)
- BagBar for openable items
- Auto Open with safety rules
- Overlays: junk, upgrades, mounts, pets, recipes, housing
- Fully customizable Toasts, alerts, and sounds
- Loot alerts for mounts, pets, housing, recipes
- Instance drops show collection status
- Navigation Arrow system (disabled by default)
- Portal Hub in ESC menu with 200+ portals
- Instance info panel while inside dungeons/raids
- Auto repair, Auto delete, FastForward cinematic skip
- Copy anything or full tooltips
- Coordinates display
- Direct Deposit banking
- Mail and Auction tracking
- Action bar backup and restore
Version R5.2512.2601
December 26, 2025
- Error when closing addon [X] while in combat
- WoWBags Category View
- ALL ALTS view (shows items from all alts)
- AltView Category mode with item categories
- Custom categories: Pets, Mounts, Recipes, Housing
- ActionBars - clicking alt name loads first spec
- UI conversion to Blizzard frames
- Vendor ilvl scaling for older items
- X close button on Vendor panel
- Disable option in Vendor settings
- Reduced Vendor panel size
- Sell options moved to own area
- Better timing when adding new alts (reduces Unknown)
- M+ Rating, Best Time, Highest Key, Run Count, Keystone detection
- Vault progress, color coding, tooltips
- Removed duplicate data collection, added auto-refresh
- DirectDeposit auto deposit/withdraw gold to Warband Bank
- All ToDos visible without scrolling in Notes
- Resize/move lag in Zone Windows
- Reduced spacing between items
- Action Bars expanded to 180 slots (was 120)
- Pet bar support in Action Bars
- Per-character/spec sets in Action Bars
- Search bar in Action Bars
- Lockout tooltip
- Bag ilvl overlays
- Loot alerts last longer, larger, faction-colored
- Toast Zone alerts open Zone Note
- Item Notes explains Caged Pets, text color bug
- Item upgrades show proper paths
- Mark As Complete renamed Skip/Bypass with tooltip
- ActionBar backup/restore
- Removed Toast dropdown position selector
- Movable/lockable alert box (Shift+Lock, Ctrl+Hide)
- Alerts feed from bottom if too low
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Installation
- Download the latest version from CurseForge
- Extract the addon folder to
World of Warcraft/_retail_/Interface/AddOns/ - Launch or reload WoW with
/reload - Configure via AddOns menu or type
/wownotesin chat - Begin using WoWNotes in-game