Steamgifts User Notes v0.6

Have ever seen the little blue heart next to a name (assuming you are using Psycho345s great Blacklist/Whitelist Indicator script) and thought: "Who the hell is that and why is he on my whitelist?". No? Well, I did. So I created a little user-script that lets you save notes for other users.

The script adds a "Notes" icon on the profile page of a user, right next to the "Visit Steam profile" button. On hovering over the button, it shows all the saved notes for this user. There are different types of notes:

  • Basic Comment
  • Added to whitelist
  • Removed from whitelist
  • Added to blacklist
  • Removed from blacklist

Every time you add or remove somebody from you blacklist or whitelist, the script asks you for a little comment stating the reason for this decision. If you don't feel like typing in a reason, you can just ignore or dismiss the input box. The script will save the action and a default comment like "Added to Whitelist". This way, you always have a complete history of your actions regarding this user.
By clicking on the "Notes" icon, you can add a basic comment that is not bound to any action.

The code is open-source and available on GitHub - contributions are welcome!

It is a userscript, so you'll need Tampermonkey (if you are using Chrome) or Greasemonkey (Firefox)

To install SG User Notes, just follow the right link below and click on "Install"
Due to unresolvable compatibility issues, there are dedicated scripts for Chrome and Firefox at the moment. I am working on getting this fixed.

Install SG User Notes v0.6 for Chrome

Install SG User Notes v0.6 for Firefox

The script should update automatically, but you can trigger an update manually in the Tampermonkey / Greasemonkey interface or by following the appropriate "Install" link and reinstall the newer version. Your saved notes won't be affected by this.

Planned Features:

  • Interface to edit / delete notes
  • Synchronize notes via Dropbox

Update 15.05.2016: Release v0.6

New Features:
Added notification feature
I added a mechanism to display notification to inform users about new releases and fixes. This was necessary because the broken update mechanism in 0.5 Chrome instances required a manual reinstall.

Update 11.05.2016: Release v0.5

New Features:
Added "User Notes" settings page in account settings
I included a settings page, which can be found at your account settings below the link to your blacklist.

Added Import / Export functionality
I added the Import/Export feature many of you wished for. You can find it on the new settings page.

Change icon appearance and show badge if there are notes present
It is now indicated on the notes icon how many notes you have for a user.

Reverse User Note order
If you'd like for the newest user note to be always at the top of the list, you can now reverse the user notes order in the settings by checking the option "Newest note at the top"

Changelog:

  • v0.6 ( 15.05.2016 )
    Added notification feature
  • v0.5 ( 11.05.2016 )
    Added "User Notes" settings page in account settings
    Added Import / Export functionality
    Change icon appearance and show badge if there are notes present
    Reverse User Note order
  • v0.4 ( 02.05.2016 )
    Splitted into two different scripts for Chrome and FF
  • v0.2 ( 01.05.2016 )
    Firefox compatibility
  • v0.1 ( 01.05.2016 )
    First Release
7 years ago*

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Neat. Sucks that SG++ lost all of my labels... I planned on cleaning up my blacklist eventually, but looks like I can't do that anymore.
Also, screenshots would be neat.

7 years ago
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Same here. I had to delete my cookies to fix a redirect loop and after that they were gone. For now I've switched to Excel to keep track of my BL.

Is is possible to backup my notes with this script or could the same thing happen here ?

7 years ago
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Check the new version, you can now export and import your notes.

7 years ago
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Cool. I will check it out :)

7 years ago
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What if this one lost them too?

Joking aside, why SG++ lost labels for all users? Does anyone know that?

7 years ago
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I've lost mine before that but could it have something to do with the switch to https?

7 years ago
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Yep, it's because of the https!
Check out my other comment, you can still retrieve them!

7 years ago
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Thanks a lot. It did work but I only got a few tags back. I didn't loose my tags due to the https change (well I probably lost them again) but a few weeks earlier I couldn't access the site due to a redirect loop and deleted my cookies (and looking back into the instructions apparently site data) to fix it. I guess that's how I lost them.

7 years ago*
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You probably can still retrieve you old tags, assuming you didn't delete your local storage on Chrome or something on Firefox!
Check out this comment for Chrome or this one for Firefox

I got mine back on Chrome following this!

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make a backup copy of webappsstore.sqlite in FF's profile folder

Well, if I even remotely knew what this means, it would be nice.

7 years ago
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I feel you buddy :D Luckily for Chrome it was a lot easier (although it was a little annoying that all the paths are different in german brilliant idea MS) but that stuff is like black magic to me.

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3 years ago*
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Check the new version, you can now export and import your notes.

7 years ago
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Works perfectly! Thanks for putting the time and effort into making this!

View attached image.
7 years ago
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I get a download error when trying to get this script using Greasemonkey on Firefox 46.

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+1

7 years ago
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I found the bug, so you can install it now, but the script seems to not work in FF atm. Not sure why. I'm currently looking into this.

7 years ago
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It should work now. Check again.

7 years ago
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Works now. I downloaded it. There seems to be a bug tho. I am unable to remove someone from my whitelist/blacklist. When i click on the whitelist/blacklist button in the profile of a user who is already in it, it is simply loading and loading. I let it for about 5 min before i refresh the page and still didn't do anything.

7 years ago
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Damn, you're right. Wait a sec

7 years ago
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I don't know if you fixed it or it got fixed by itself because i removed SG++ but thanks a lot! It's now working perfectly!

7 years ago
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You should switch to the FF version of the script for the moment, or else the next update will break it for you again. I'm sorry for this, I wasn't aware that Greasemonkey and Tampermonkey are not fully compatible. Looking for a fix, until then FF users should use the dedicated FF script.

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ok, i did. Thank you for the effort you put in!

7 years ago
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nice, is there any chance this could create a file to import/export the notes?
losing all the tags is terrible (already happened once on sg++ last year). ;_;

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+1 to this!

7 years ago
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Check the new version, you can now export and import your notes.

7 years ago
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nice, thanks a lot :3

7 years ago
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Please have a look at the entry post - you may have to reinstall if you are on chrome and already updated. Sorry.

7 years ago
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i'm on firefox and it works fine, thanks :3

7 years ago
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Thanks, helpfull addon.

7 years ago
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+1 for import/export (:

7 years ago
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A way to edit previous notes would be nice too. I already have a few typos D:

7 years ago
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This is on the roadmap. Until then you'll need to work around it using the new import/export feature. Just export your data, change what you want to change and reimport.

7 years ago
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Check the new version, you can now export and import your notes.

7 years ago
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It is a great tool, good job Mahernen! But is there any way to delete or edit previous notes?

7 years ago
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Not at the moment, but I think I will add this soon. As a workaround, you could edit the script locally and temporarily uncomment Line 50

//GM_deleteValue(getUserId()); //for Debugging

by removing the two slashs on the beginning of the line.
This deletes ALL notes for this user on loading the page - so be sure edit it back after loading the page once.

7 years ago
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Alright, it did the job for now. Thanks for the help :)

7 years ago
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Can you make another icon color if user already got any info in notes? It would be helpfull.

7 years ago
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You mean so that you do not need to hover over the icon to see if you have notes on a user?

7 years ago
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Yea, just to know you already writen note.

7 years ago
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Good idea, that makes sense. I added a badge with the number of attached notes. This will be included in the next version.

7 years ago
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Good.

7 years ago
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Hi, can you make option for reverse the notes info, from new (on top) to old (on bottom).

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What do you mean? What old icon?

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Reverse notes in list.

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I'll need to add support for custom settings first, which is on the roadmap. Once this is implemented, I can add a checkbox for reversing the list.

7 years ago
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Maybe reverse view better for use. Always see last notes on top. Anyway, gonna wait for it. Thanks.

7 years ago
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Check the new version, you can reverse the notes order now

7 years ago
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Good work.

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Release v0.5

New Features:
Added "User Notes" settings page in account settings
I included a settings page, which can be found at your account settings below the link to your blacklist.

Added Import / Export functionality
I added the Import/Export feature many of you wished for. You can find it on the new settings page.

Change icon appearance and show badge if there are notes present
It is now indicated on the notes icon how many notes you have for a user.

Reverse User Note order
If you'd like for the newest user note to be always at the top of the list, you can now reverse the user notes order in the settings by checking the option "Newest note at the top"

7 years ago
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Very useful!!!!!!!

7 years ago
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mahermen: could you also add an icon for users with a note beside their name on forum? I mean the same as the whitelist indicator does. Icons in topic list and icons in the threads.

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7 years ago
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Sorry, won't be coming. Im packed with work atm and this change is not as trivial as it sounds. You'll have to live with the BL/WL icons for now.

7 years ago
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Sorry to necro this thread.
My old OS stopped working but I still have access to the data on the harddrive. Is there any chance to recover my usernotes, if I did not export them?

3 years ago
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You might be able to restore your usernotes by restoring your browsers profile from your old harddrive:

Chrome
Firefox

3 years ago
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That was a great idea. Thanks a lot!
Edit: Is your wishlist on Steam up to date?

3 years ago*
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Not really. I just throw anything remotely interesting on there. ;-)

3 years ago
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