HandyNotes

Handy Notes for your maps. This addon is intended to be a small and simple framework for showing notes on your map.

Use /handynotes to access options.

You can add notes to the maps in 3 ways:

- Alt-RightClick on the world map to add a note.

- Use "/hnnew" without the quotes to add a note at your current location.

- Use "/hnnew x,y" without the quotes to add a note at location x,y on your current zone's map.

HandyNotes supports plugins that other authors can write to display their own set of notes on the map. See this link for a list of such addons: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/search?search=handynotes

ABOUT THIS LISTING

This page describes HandyNotes by Xinhuan. The description and screenshots are the author's own, imported from their listing on CurseForge on 26 October 2026: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/handynotes

Mythiq.net hosts no files for it. The download button goes straight to the release file on edge.forgecdn.net, so you are downloading from the author's own host, not from a copy of ours.

The download count, rating and comments on this page start at zero and count Mythiq.net only. The source's own figures are not copied here — they measure a different site, and a number that cannot be checked against our own ledger is not worth printing.

GAME FLAVOUR

This is a WoW Forever build. Forever runs the Cataclysm-era (4.4.x) addon API — a third client family alongside retail and Classic, and a build for one throws Lua errors on the others. Check you are installing into the Forever client.

INTERFACE VERSION

Built against game version 5.5.4, 12.1.0, 2.5.6, 1.15.9, 1.60.1. After a patch, an addon that has not been updated is flagged out of date; most keep working, and the "Load out of date AddOns" checkbox on the character screen lets you try.

DEPENDENCIES

Some addons need a separate library addon (Ace3, LibStub and friends) that is not bundled. If the addon does not appear in the list in game, a missing dependency is the usual reason.

1. Quit World of Warcraft completely. The game reads the AddOns folder at launch and will overwrite settings for an addon added while it is running.

2. Download the archive with the button on this page and unzip it. Take the file marked for Forever — the same project also ships builds for retail and the Classic flavours, and they are not interchangeable.

3. Move the folder — the one with the .toc file in it, not the zip's wrapper folder — into:

the WoW Forever client\Interface\AddOns — its own client folder, separate from _retail_ and _classic_ (the beta installed as _classic_beta_)

4. Start the game. On the character selection screen, click AddOns and check that it is listed and enabled.

IF IT DOES NOT APPEAR

Nine times out of ten the folder is nested one level too deep. Interface/AddOns/Thing/Thing/Thing.toc will not load; Interface/AddOns/Thing/Thing.toc will.

UPDATING

Delete the old folder before unzipping the new one. Unzipping over the top leaves files behind that the new version no longer expects.