Please tell me if I am incorrect or there is a better way.

The only way to see a comprehensive list of changes you have made in your plugin is by File>Data>Details ? (which is a dialogue window so it can't be left open, has no functionality, and is only current up to the most recent save).

I'm just wondering how does one keep track of things when making many changes in many areas.

Yes, the Details dialogue is a list of changes made by the plugin, but you are wrong on the "no functionality" part. Select a change, then hit "Delete" on your keyboard. That will mark the change as ignored, and that change won't be loaded into the editor the next time you load that plugin, and therefor the change won't ever have happened when you save the plugin. That would be its primary usage, I suppose.

As for keeping track of changes in many areas, it's common practice to Prefix newly added things to the CK (or seems to be) with something that you can easily identify them with. That way, you can filter for your newly added weapons, jump to your interior cells/worlds faster, etc., etc...

So say i want to edit all the magic effects in the game - i dont need to make new effects - and I cant rename the existing ones because editorid is how they are tracked (so I can't use a naming convention to be able to filterfor them) - therefore I have no way to know which ones I have edited vs. the ones I have yet to edit? (except thru File>Dat>Details, which is unacceptably clunky).

I want to be able to see all my changes either in a separate tree in the object window, or in a separate window at all times that I can work from, instead of refiltering all the time.

I suppose I didn't anticipate that you'd be editing that many things vs. adding new ones. When you edit something, however, it does put an asteriks next to the number in the "Count" column.


I know of no separate tree/window to show things in the way that you are wanting, I'm afraid.

Well that is something i suppose. Thanks for your replies.