Addon's?

[Mythocast]

So I know that there isn't much in the ways of addon's or "mods" for ED but I would do have some questions about any and all existing ones.

I've done searching of course and could not find anything close to what I'm looking for.

In-game Notepad/journal, seriously this would save me a lot of paper.

Last location(s) maybe there is a way to tell what the last system I was in is called but I cannot seem to find it. I would love to have the ability to track where I was before and where I was ten systems before that and if I even bothered to grab scan data as an added bonus. Would be neat. (One of my biggest paper wasters)

Trade tools, I know there are a few trade tools out there I was very excited to see TSE but I'm not willing to dump 100+ dollars on Excel just so that I can use it. Any others like it? I don't even care for overall trade data just data that I collect personally. Would be cool to have an in-game tool that took note of what is going on in that particular stations commodities market and maybe be able to compare it to old data from other stations. This would really help me out with the whole bigger picture thing of trade.

Worse comes to worse I stop procrastinating on my C# studies and use these as projects to learn but I'm a tad lazy and just don't have a lot of time on my hands.

EDIT/ I understand that the three types of tools I'm looking for can and would use up a lot of memory for me that's not a big issue, I'm trying my hardest to fill my HDD to no avail! Help me get there!

 

[jgm]

Here is a list of third-party tools which covers a lot of items that you are after. None of them in-game as it doesn't support addons itself, but if you have a second monitor there are some useful items there.

 

[Slopey]

Both my tool (the BPC from here) and others offer "overlays" which sit on top of ED so you can see key information while in game. Doesn't extend to taking notes in game yet for mine (adding it shortly), but you can add notes about stations/systems and the BPC will say them back to you next time you jump into the system. You can also mark systems visited, partially or fully explored.

 

[Mythocast]

Now we're talking! Thank you Slopey. Will test and post feedback in your thread, from the sounds of it, it is almost perfect.

 

[Insomnia]

I hope that FD eventually will embrace the idea of using mods to it's full extent. Space can be rather empty at times, and with user made content it could get quite interesting. Although I think it's best if all the DLC is released.
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Basic modding should already be accessible though ie making custom 2k, or even 4k textures, volumetric clouds, real nebula textures, ship colors and textures, galaxy textures, planet atmosphere mods etc etc....
Elite could benefit from mods in huge ways.