The limitation will be from either the Havok lua engine support code, or ESO-added code, and "byte count" is entirely plausible as the limit. That said, you could easily enough test this: find something that encodes to multiple bytes, put 1999 of them into a savedvar slot, and see what is written to disk.

Anyway, short version long, yes, everything including spaces, newlines, etc, uses a "character" as far as the engine is concerned.

@Phuein: Thanks for trying to get more info on this.



Am I understanding you correctly? Are you seriously saying that the base coding for each page counts towards the character limit and not just the information you put (visibly/countably if necessary) down on any given page?

Good question, I'm not sure. Unless I'm mistaken, there's currently no way of knowing when you're over the limit & possibly going to lose the page info. (Short of copying the text from the saved vars into a text editor; since copying it from the Notebook doesn't show you the hidden characters that add up.) Maybe an internal counter could be implemented. Either displaying the number of characters as typed (e.g., 920/1984), or maybe a routine that runs once when the Save button is clicked, then pops a notification if it's over the character limit & refuses to save.

Hmm, I thought the ~2k character limit had been taken care of for some reason. There's a lot of characters that are invisible if they're not pasted into the text editor from the saved vars files, such as carriage returns. I ran into this problem using the old version of Notebook & lost a bunch of info too. Luckily I had Saved Vars backups so it wasn't too terribly much trouble; just figuring out the cause of the behavior. Now, what I do, just to be safe, is copy any info I put in the notebook into a text file, and save it before I reloadUI. I also break up my pages when they look like they're starting to scroll very far off the page, just to be sure it doesn't get too long. Hope this helps others. Remember, we've all got to take responsibility for backing up data we want saved. Relying on just one source, no matter how good it is, is not a good idea.

I was gathering information to try out a build I've never done before. I'd already written down some info on that and then didn't feel like typing out all the rest. So I copied and pasted the information on passives, CP, and rotation from this site Windwalker.
I saved the page, closed the book and logged out to do a manual backup of the SavedVariables.LUA. Since a much-regretted accident, I always do that before and after making changes in some of my add-ons.
Logging back into the game the page (A) with the copied text was still listed but only the title could be read the page itself appeared to be empty and could not be edited. Switching to another -readable/editable- page (B) produced the effect that the information from this page (B) was suddenly displayed on the faulty page (A) when I tried to switch back. The only option was to delete the page and start over.

Edit: The character limit doesn't apply here - I checked with a character count in Word. This copy and paste page was well under the 2000 limit.



This Index/dividers should give you an idea of what I was thinking of. Or if you're using MS OneNote there's a similar structural setup.


-- Update on the page delete situation --

Delightedly , I just found another hand typed two pages deleted and finally decided to take a look at your code. On card 84, one of the deleted ones, I found this .

A nice information to have with one minor and one HUGE problem:

Minor: Why isn't this limit mentioned anywhere in the addon description?

Huge: How am I supposed to know in-game if I've reached the character limit?
There's absolutely no indication if you do reach it. No counter (e.g. 425/2000) and the pages appear to save just fine and as long as you don't log out everything looks good.

Spending time inputting information only to get it erased and then find this kind of comment in the coding ... well it's aggravating and adding insult to injury.

Oh well, I've found a way to get some order that sort of works for me.

Unfortunately while transferring my pages into this new notebook version I stumbled across another aggravation.
I tried to copy and paste some text from a website into the notebook which at first worked. After a relog, I discovered that the page with the copied text didn't contain anything any longer beyond the title and couldn't be worked with in any form. The only option left was to delete the page.
Does copy and paste really "break" the notebook or did I miss some sort of setting?



Not sure how LUA works as I've only dealt with HTML and associated coding, but would index tabs like in a ring binder be a possible option to make sorting easier?

Hello,

so happy that someone picked up one of my most essential outdated addons.
Trying it out right now and so far I like what I see.

My only problem is that you reduced the notebooks from three to one. I assembled a lot of info as well as playing on both the European and US servers, so using just one notebook leaves me with a huge amount of pages that bothers on unmanageable.
So I'm wondering if there is any chance of getting at least one more notebook?

Thanks for your work

I know you already wrote it when I suggested it to you, this was just such a smaller note on the theme of the change log. otherwise, the change log is just an extra information about the addon changes, especially if the user wants to know if he has not played for a long time and the changes have become the addons that he uses but the addon problems after his update and needs to manually download the older version that worked for him

just for something I've told you vocals to use the offer (change) change log where you would only write a short version and what changes you made in that particular version, then the user is better in that orientation