[RESOURCE] Free Editor Notes Addon

This is my first time sharing an editor extension I made so I hope this is the right place. I will also post in the Extensions forum if possible.



I pretty much wrote all the information in the screenshot. If you use this addon be sure to place the "Notes" folder in the root assets folder as I was too lazy to tell it to search all project folders. The Window for this addon can be found under Window>Notes.

If I get enough demand, I will create an extension to this addon for Game Object Notes (Notes you can write on individual game objects) and make them viewable within this window as well as on the Game Object itself.

 

Good job, keep up the good work!

 

Damn, thanks for the share.

I was a bit annoyed that I had to keep text files separate, this is a good solution.

 

Hi there,

first of all: thanks collinpatrick to provide us such a nice thing, I was wondering if Unity provides such Addin built-in, but I cant find anything.
And your extension perfectly adds what I was looking for to start organizing myself for alle the project scopes I would forget otherwise.

[[ IMPORTANT BUGFIX - PLEASE READ (to everyone looking for such a cool tool) ]]

Unfortunately the original script is bugged at one major part: saving the changes you have made to a note sometimes does not work and just drops all of your changes.
This is due to that your noteContent is not updating the notebook.notes List properly at proper times.

I figured out how to fix this bug and attached the script "NotesWindows.cs" to all of you again.
@OP: I just got rid of all the "OnFocus" "OnLostFocus" "OnDestroy" stuff events, which makes the handling less laggy and save the current textarea content in the notebook.notes as soon as you click another Notes button in the list.

I also added a "Save" Button to make it feel more kinda "safer" ;-)

Dunno how this licensing stuff works in such cases, but lemme say for sure that its still owned by collinpatrick and for free!


Still: thanks for all the good work, I am not too experienced in making own Custom Editor Extensions and found it cool to have yours !

KR,
Michael

 

Wow. I was not expecting anyone to actually use it. I have definitely grown as a programmer since I posted this which makes me scared to even look at the code. If there's any interest I could rewrite it from the ground up with more features and stability.

 

To be honest I am super interested, but the tool is currently doing what it should.
The only thing I miss is some sort of "up" and "down" arrow for the single notes in the list, to make organizing easier.
As well as having the search not case-semsitve.
But these are all really minor things to even mention.
It does what it does: making notes in Unity Editor directly possible.
But if you think about your reputation (if interested anyhow) you might create a powerfull notes tool which then could become standard built-in in one of Unities next release some day.
Because IMHO for such a mighty editor - what Unity definitly is - something like a Notes-Feature should/could be one of the basics.

 

PS.: if you are interested in such long-term, I would be happy to review / test your tool and may suggest some ideas if thats what you are looking for.
But dont feel you need to commit, I'm just propounding

 

Yeah. I was thinking of adding the ability to put notes on game objects as well and save the notes using JSON or XML if I ever redo it.

 

Hey collinpatrick,
Thanks for this amazing asset. I was thinking of creating the same kind of thing and stumbled here searching for some inspiration. I will try to learn from this , create my own enhanced version, and will put the link here for your suggestions and guidance, Thanks.

 

Cool! I don't suggest using my code as a reference when making your own. 4 years later and I am cringing at that poorly written code. Feel free to ask for feedback or pointers. I may look into writing a new more robust version myself using Unity's new UI system in a few months now that my life is less hectic. I have a project that is in dire need of a notes tool, so hopefully, I don't come back again two years later to say the same thing.