Event-driven notepad/reminder addon

[HunterZ]

I was thinking it'd be really neat if there were an addon that let you jot down notes and then set them to pop up as reminders to yourself based on various conditions like:
- a specific clock time
- a specific number of minutes in the future
- entering a specific zone
- gaining a level
- having a certain number of an item (farming goals, or reminder to buy reagents)
- opening your mailbox
- visiting the auction house (either entering an AH or talking to an auctioneer)
- visiting a vendor
- visiting a bank

[Skylinee]

This addon would be legendary.

[clarox2]

Neat idea. I would suggest though to try to separate the note part and the conditions part. I could see the conditions part being handled by a separate lib, and the notes part just using that lib as a listener. That way the code can be reused for other purposes, e.g. raid warnings, etc.

[OrionShock]

As for single situation based events like bank,vendor,auction, lvling, mailbox things like that.. could easily be done. but timed and zone based would be a bit more interesting...

[Ydrisselle]

That addon would be a "must have".

[clarox2]

Originally Posted by OrionShock

As for single situation based events like bank,vendor,auction, lvling, mailbox things like that.. could easily be done. but timed and zone based would be a bit more interesting...

I was thinking that the new timer/reminder functions that Blizz introduced could be (ab)used for the timed events. I don't foresee the zone event being too much of a problem either - I'd be worried more about taint than anything else. Which gives me the idea that it could also be set to alert when a certain amount of honor has been farmed.

[HunterZ]

Originally Posted by OrionShock

As for single situation based events like bank,vendor,auction, lvling, mailbox things like that.. could easily be done. but timed and zone based would be a bit more interesting...

Zoning wouldn't be any more difficult to implement, as events are fired when it occurs.

[sylvanaar]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_state_machine

actually, i'm glad i went and actually read the page, this looks cool

http://smc.sourceforge.net/

[Starinnia]

Hmm... This does look interesting. Anyone thought of names yet?

[HunterZ]

Originally Posted by Starinnia

Hmm... This does look interesting. Anyone thought of names yet?

Names might be premature. I just hope someone picks up the idea and runs with it.

Maybe something like Secretary/PersonalAssistant/Reminder/Butler/SmartNotes or something.