Skyrim Mod:Mod File Format/NOTE

NOTE records were added in Fallout 3, and define collectible intel items including audio logs, text, and images. Though they cannot be created in Skyrim's Creation Kit, the game engine still supports them and has a limited set of behavior for them.

Notes are technically items. However, if the player picks up a Note, it will be removed from the game world entirely without being transferred to their inventory. The game remembers all Notes that the player has ever picked up. The GetHasNote condition can be used to test whether the player has ever picked up a given note, and the AddNote console command can be used to flag a note as having been collected by the player. Because the Note never appears in the player's inventory, GetItemCount will not detect it.

There is, of course, no way for the player to actually view their collected notes.

There is a bug where using the EquipItem console command (or anything similar) will directly add a Note to the player's inventory, and not to the internal list of Notes that the player has seen.

C	Field	Type	Info
-	EDID	zstring	Editor ID.
-	VMAD	VMAD	Papyrus data.
-	OBND	OBND	Object bounds data.
-	MODL	MODL	The note's 3D model. Includes fields MODL and MODT; field MODS (texture swaps) is not recognized.
-	FULL	lstring	The note's name.
+	DATA	uint8	The note's type. 0 - Sound 1 - Text 2 - Image file 3 - Voice (topic and actor)
-	ICON	zstring	Texture file, intended to be displayed as an icon in menus.
*	ONAM	formID	One of the note's owning quests.
-	XNAM	zstring	The texture file path for an image note. Only used if the note type has already been loaded.
-	YNAM	formID	Sound to play when the item is picked up.
-	ZNAM	formID	Sound to play when the item is dropped.
These fields are only recognized for sound notes:
-	SNAM	formID	The sound form that contains this note's content.
These fields are only recognized for text notes:
-	TNAM	lstring?	The text of this note.
These fields are only recognized for voice notes:
-	SNAM	formID	The ActorBase who speaks when this note is played.
-	TNAM	formID	The topic that is said when this note is played.