Toki's TargetNotes
User Manual
  Installation     Taking Notes     Searching Notes  
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  Misc.  
Installation
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To install, pull the "Toki's TargetNotes" folder from inside the zip file and place it in the "Program Files/World of Warcraft/Interface/Addons" directory. The addons selection menu is found through the character selection screen within WoW.
In Internet Explorer you can click here to open the directory, assuming WoW is installed in the default location and operating system.
Taking Notes
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The slash commands to take notes are /tn and /df. They're synonyms. Click on a target and type the command followed by your note. For example:
/tn this guy is a bastard
The note will then appear in a litle window thing. You can drag the window around by the arrow. Next time you click on the target, you will see your note. You can take as many notes on a target as you want. The last three notes taken for the target will be visible. Older notes aren't deleted, they just aren't shown when clicking on the target. You can still search through them with the search UI.
If you have no target selected, the note is taken for whatever your last target was. Your character is the default when the game loads. Player targets are considered unique per name and server. Legolas may be emo on one server but a total rock'n roll badass on another. Any other type of target such as mobs, NPC's, and pets are unique per name only. Taking a note on one Shattered Hand Consultant will let you see the note on all other Shattered Hand Consultants, and if you take a note on a boss on one server, you'll see it when fighting that boss on another server.
Searching Notes
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The command to search through your notes is /ts. For example:
/ts bastard
This will display the search UI with the search results. You can also bind a key to toggle the search window via the Key Bindings interface. The data that is searched through per target is: So to find that one Gnome rogue you took a note on, use:
/ts gnome rogue

About the search menchanics

TargetNotes uses a prefix search. Three characters is the mininum prefix length, meaning the words you use to query must be at least three characters long to have any effect. This type of search is extremely fast, but its major limitation is that it only searches prefixes. For example, the following won't find gnomes or rogues:
/ts nome gue

Search Window

When you click on a search result, the notes associated with that unit will appear on the bottom half of the window. Right-clicking on a player result will let you /who that player. Click on an individual note to edit it. Click on the [+] button or on an empty note row to add a note. You can close the window with Esc.
Misc.
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If there is a conflict with other addons regarding the slash commands: Open up the "main.lua" file. The commands are at the top of the file on lines 8, 9, and 12. Change them as you need.