my adventure

My Adventure

My Adventure is your character's journal. It is the first tab of the Journal window (the Loot Guide's window, /lg), called My Adventure, and it writes itself as you play: levels, places, dungeons, quests, finds, the people you traveled with, and your own goals and notes. It tells it back as a diary, a book from level 1 to 60, keepsake cards, and tips for where to go next.

• It needs the Loot Guide on. While My Adventure runs, the window's title reads "Journal" and the Loot Guide's dungeon tab reads "Dungeons".
• Switch it with /eui adventure on or off, or on the Modules page. /eui adventure opens its settings.
• It stays off while Forever Journal is loaded, so two journals never write the same thing. Its import still works then (see Moving from Forever Journal).

The journal only writes down what the game shows you. It never reads the combat log, never guesses kills or hidden numbers, and never does anything for you: every button opens a page, the map, or a waypoint.

Opening it

Where	What it does
/eui journey	Opens or closes My Adventure. /eui journey <section> opens a section, /eui journey <text> searches the journal.
/lg	Opens the Journal window on its start page: My Adventure, unless you picked another in the Loot Guide's settings.
Key bindings (Esc > Options > Keybindings > AddOns)	Open or close My Adventure, write a quick journal note, show or hide the journal tracker, open Next trips.
Addon compartment (the button by the minimap)	Left-click opens My Adventure, right-click writes a quick note, Shift-click opens Next trips, Ctrl-click reports new content when there is some. Its tooltip sums up your day.
Info Bar	The "Journal" datatext, with the same clicks.
Game menu (Esc)	The Journal button under EldoUI's button ("Journal button in the game menu", on by default).
Minimap	A Journal button, off by default ("Minimap button"). The Minimap module's button bin gathers it.
Quest menus	Right-click a quest in the quest log or the objective tracker: "Show in your journal", "Set as a goal", and "Write a note about it".
Tooltips	Item tooltips say when and where you found it; quest links say when you took and handed in the quest.
/eui jot <text>	Writes a note here and now. Without text it opens the quick note card.

The pages

The rail on the left groups the pages under Today, Story, and Atlas. "Open on" (settings, Journal tab) picks the page the tab opens on: Today, any page, or the last one you had open.

Group	Page	What it shows
Today	Today	Where to go next, what is waiting for you, and what just happened.
Today	Next trips	Where to go next and why: dungeons with their quests, quests that fit your level, attunement steps, and zones to explore.
Today	Goals	Things you want to work towards. Their progress moves by itself as the game reports it.
Today	Notes	Notes that remember where and when you wrote them, and reminders that show when you get somewhere.
Story	Journey	Your story as it happened: chapters by level, day, or zone, with keepsakes, finds, and pinned notes.
Story	Book	Your story from level 1 to 60 as a book in chapters, in the tone you choose, with a cover for every part.
Story	Keepsakes	Your big moments as cards: first kills, epic finds, standings, mounts, and the moments you kept, with your firsts.
Story	Places	Every zone you visited with its corners, time, kills, and quests, and every dungeon and raid with its runs: who was in each run (name, class, level, and role) and its loot rolls, who won which item and everyone's roll. Long lists open one page of 100 runs at a time. Battlegrounds and arenas record nothing.
Story	Quests	Every quest you handed in, with where, when, who gave it, and who came along; your quest log; the quests that left your log without a hand-in: abandoned, failed, or removed by the game (with where and when you took each one); and the quests the game remembers from before.
Story	Fellowship	The people you traveled with: time together and how it was spent, dungeons and quests together, what each one won while grouped with you, and your notes on them.
Story	Story so far	Your character's story in a few lines, with the level river, your numbers, the eras, and ways to share it.
Atlas	Attunements	Attunements, keys, and dungeon quest chains, step by step, for each of your characters.
Atlas	Dungeons, Open World, Reputation	Open those tabs of the Journal window.

The character card. Story so far has "Show card": a card with your name, class, level, time played, the level river, your numbers, and a few keepsakes, on a dimmed screen for your own screenshot. Companion names, your guild, and your realm are never on it. It also copies as text or Markdown.

Search. The Journal window's search box finds sections, places, goals, notes, and Journey moments ("VanCleef", "Frost Nova") under "Your journal".

Moments and the tracker

• Moments are short cards in the alert lane for a new chapter (level), a new place, a first dungeon, a keepsake, a goal reached, rested time, and reminders. They wait while you are in combat. In a dungeon they are held, and one summary shows when you leave (or set "Moments in dungeons" to show them as they happen). Each moment plays one sound at most, and none when Fanfare already plays one for the same thing. The screenshot button on a card takes a screenshot only when you click it.
• The journal tracker lists your goals, reminders, and the next trip under your quests, in the quest tracker's column ("Keep it in the quest column"; with Questie it sits right under Questie's list). It has its own mover, "Journal Tracker", and hides when it has nothing to show.

Styles

Six style presets set the look and how much the journal shows, never where anything sits. Pick one on the module's page.

Style	What it sets
EldoUI	The Journal window's dark page and the EldoUI Book, the Storyteller detail with keepsakes, the tracker under your quests, and moments in the alert lane.
Storybook	Parchment pages with dark ink for the Book and the character card, told as a Chronicle.
Essentials	Levels, deaths, notes, goals, and keepsakes only, with short chapters, a small tracker, and fewer moments.
Chronicler	Everything, rare (blue) finds too, long chapters, every chapter open, and a taller tracker.
Compact	The Night ledger Book in smaller text, short chapters, and a slim tracker.
Quiet	No moments, no sounds, and no tracker. The journal still writes everything down, and reminders still show.

With "Style follows the layout" on, applying a layout preset also gives the Book the look of the style that fits it (EldoUI, Storybook, or Compact). What the journal shows is kept.

Settings

The module's page has seven tabs. Every option has its own description in the game.

• Journal: write the journal on or off, use the Characters and Instances records, the page it opens on, how much it shows (Essentials, Story, Chronicler, or your own ticks), finds from which quality, and the Journey's grouping.
• Story: the tone (Chronicle, Bard, or Ledger: the facts are the same in every tone), story length, how you are named, the Book look (Parchment, EldoUI, or Night ledger), and the reading size. Under Look, Page look puts the pages on the Journal window's dark panel or on paper (parchment with dark ink); the Book and the character card keep their Book look.
• Where next: how Next trips weighs dungeons, leveling, and collecting, raids on or off, briefs, the level-up page, and the prep checklist.
• Moments and sounds: which moments show, how long, in dungeons or after, their sounds, and Fanfare.
• Tracker and buttons: what the tracker lists and how tall it is, the quest column, the minimap and game menu buttons, and the key bindings.
• Keeping it safe: backups, restore and export.
• Data: what the journal reads from other modules, and new Forever content (see Journal data reports).

Keeping it safe

An addon can't write files of its own, so the journal keeps dated backups inside its saved data.

• Backups are taken by themselves after you log in (every login, once a day, once a week, or only by hand) and before a restore or an import. "Backups to keep" sets how many (1 to 10).
• Restore a backup with Merge (keeps everything since) or Replace (exactly as it was). Your journal is backed up first either way.
• Backup code: the whole journal as one !EUJ1! code in a copy box, to paste back on this PC or another (/eui journey import code, which also takes a Forever Journal FJ1: code). A pasted code is read as plain data only.
• Export: /eui journey export markdown, html (a printable page; print it to PDF in a browser), text, or code. Everything goes to a copy box. Nothing is ever sent from the game.

Moving from Forever Journal

/eui journey import reads Forever Journal's saved data while that addon is still enabled: every character's journal tagged with its owner, its backups, and optionally its settings. It never writes to Forever Journal's data, it backs up first, it can be undone, and running it twice adds nothing twice. Journals from before Forever Journal 1.3 carry no owner tag and are skipped, so a namesake's journal never lands on you. Then turn Forever Journal off in the AddOns list and /reload: EldoUI never turns another addon off.

Where the data lives

• Each character's journal is in EldoUIDB.journal["Name - Realm"] (the account file, so alts can see each other), tagged with the character's GUID.
• Rows are packed and names are kept once. The journal keeps 8,000 rows and 2,000 quests; past that, small rows of old chapters fold into one summary per chapter. Levels, deaths, places, dungeons, goals, notes, and keepsakes are never folded.
• The budget is 1.5 MB per character. A typical character from 1 to 60 takes about 0.7 MB.

Commands

Command	What it does
/eui journey	Open or close My Adventure.
/eui journey <section>	Open a section: today, next, goals, notes, journey, book, keepsakes, places, quests, fellowship, story, attune.
/eui journey <text>	Search your journal.
/eui journey data	The journal data's versions and counts.
/eui journey report	Copy new Forever content for a journal-data issue.
/eui journey check [from-to | stop]	After a Forever patch: check which quests of the data the game still knows.
/eui journey export [markdown | html | text | code]	Export your journal to a copy box.
/eui journey import [code]	Import from Forever Journal, or paste a backup code.
/eui jot [text]	Write a quick note.
/eui adventure [on | off | toggle | <section>]	Switch the module, open its settings, or open a section.

For plugin authors

Plugins can add pages, search results, moments, option rows, row kinds, and data sources to the journal: see My Adventure API.

Credits

The open-source work My Adventure builds on is credited, with its license and the list of files, in Credits and third-party notices.