A More Detailed Explorer's Codex.

I'm not sure if this has been suggested elsewhere. I like the Codex. I like the idea of it but I feel as though a lot of things are noticeably absent from it. I feel like the Codex should be a one-stop shop for all sorts of neat data. But for the exploration side of the house, I feel as though it's seriously lacking. Especially since everything needed to make the Codex truly great is already in the game but not assembled right. Here's my suggestion for what should be added to the codex:

A list of all the systems I have visited.
A list of all the systems I have discovered first.

The data itself should be sort-able by various criteria: Star type. Number of stars in the system. Body type. Number of bodies in the system. There should be filters and all the other data goodies. I'd like to be able to find all of this in one place. It shouldn't be too difficult, right? EDSM, EDDB and various other third-party sites do a portion of this already. I feel like this is a function I should not have to look outside of the game to find, especially since all of the data is already available through the galaxy map. Putting it all in one neat place would be significantly better than having a thesaurus worth of bookmarks or a dictionary of carpel tunnel-inducing notes.

Respectfully,
CMDR TheEvilGenius
 
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All the new stuff is great.

But it needs additions like this. Some link to player log...

And also info from new tools and codex presented in more than one view. For example, if I'm in a system and quick pull up the nav panel on the left I also want to know which planets I've scanned, mapped, landed on, so I don't have to open the system map or look at hand-written notes or whatever. lots of potential to use color and space to add a few more icons next to system bodies in Nav Panel. And similarly if I have all the system markers turned on my HUD and Explorer mode on then there should be graphical indicators around or on the planets to show some of that info, like the POI markers and orbit lines and distance indicators now.
 
This is basically a request for the Codex we all assumed we were going to get. Consequently it has my support.

I have no idea how FDev came up with this thing they call a Codex. They definitely didn't talk to a single explorer about it.
 
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