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How do y'all organize your DM notes? (beehaw.org)
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I keep all of what happened in one journal, and everything else on the computer. All the maps, the schedules, and the character sheets using a gurps character sheet program (forgot what its called), because I run it through discord using a text format. I hardly plan anything besides what's in my head.

Ive been trying to use different ways to plan besides just pure vibes. like using joplin, or some wiki format or even trying to do use a mindmap? But alas most of what I do is simulating what I believe would happen and keeping character sheets of possible enemies on hand.

So, I'm curious, what do you do?

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[–] INeedMana@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

For notes during/right after a session I have a notebook where I write by hand.

For planning, loose ideas etc I used to use Trello. It was serving me well for a long time (I'm still using it to save maps I might want to buy, interesting systems, links to tools, etc) but with time I felt I'm lacking a kind of big picture view.

So for campaign and adventure planning I've switched to obsidian.

  • I like markdown
  • With plugins you can create random generators
  • I like that it's simple. It's just a bunch of files which I sync to my cloud
  • The graph view lets me take a look at arches as a whole and find loose ends/underutilized facts