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Post by ericfromnj on Jan 10, 2018 8:10:56 GMT -8
I was going to write a letter to the Happy Jacks crew but I figured I would post here instead.
This is for more depth than "I use one note to keep my notes" or "I write things down on legal paper."
I am curious how other people actually organize their notes so that they get the most bang for their buck.
Using One Note for the first time, I am organizing my information for a Masks RPG I am running once a month. So far I have sections for PCs, NPCs, Locations, and Sessions. I am unsure if I will make a section for ONgoing NPC Plans or just add it to their files in the NPC sections.
This is the level of detail I want to hear out of other people, because I want inspiration to organize things in ways I may not have thought of. I've been gaming a long time and I don't want to ever fall into a rut, so to speak.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2018 8:02:57 GMT -8
I have to admit that I find organising OneNote notebooks to be quite difficult, primarily as I often get part way through a campaign and wish I'd organised it differently. For my last L5R campaign I had my main notebook organised as such: Section 1: PCs - with individual page groups for each PC Section 2: Session logs - combination of quick notes just for me as the GM and adventure logs I put on obsidian portal for the players Section 3: Locations section group, then further subdivided with the major city getting its own subsection Section 4: NPCs subdivided by Clan / affiliation with 1 page for each NPC
Initially I'd wanted to organise it in a very different way, with each individual Clan having a top level section then breaking down locations and NPCs based on their clan affiliation but for a relatively short campaign (~12 sessions) that just didn't work. Some Clans had multiple entries, others just had one that were connected to another clan etc.
In some ways I find the wiki approach of Obsidian Portal easier as you just have pages and then its down to the way in which you connect them. I know you can put links into OneNote but to me they always seem secondary to the inherent structure you set up for the notebook.
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Post by ericfromnj on Jan 11, 2018 14:07:38 GMT -8
See I used the search function on one note a lot and just make sure I use key words in the description to make sure I can look stuff up.
So that way if I type in “silver age hero” for example I will get what I want.
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Post by chronovore on Jan 21, 2018 17:05:04 GMT -8
Yeah, I'm trying to track the ever-increasing number of NPCs and factions in my campaign.
I was using a simple .TXT file and searching for text strings on the fly. It was still unwieldy, so I transferred everything to EverNote, where I had been notebooking my work tricks and tips so far.
Turns out, now I've got everything in there, I need another means of organizing, because I look at the top-level stuff and think "I don't wanna fuckin' deal with THAT."
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Post by Marcus Sanches on Jan 22, 2018 1:26:40 GMT -8
First of all i never GM (but i'll). I already finished read Vampire the Masquerade V20 book and separated all important information in a lot of words documents organized in a structure of pastes. I did that because i never will remember the information and where it is.
I wanna do the same for my games. It's better to organize this way than an unique file. In an unique file many information can be easily searched by using CTRL + F or CTRL + L. But for information the you don't remember a key word, you're screwed. It's annoying read a file with hundreds pages just to find a little piece of information.
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Post by chronovore on Jan 22, 2018 6:53:06 GMT -8
First of all i never GM (but i'll). I already finished read Vampire the Masquerade V20 book and separated all important information in a lot of words documents organized in a structure of pastes. I did that because i never will remember the information and where it is. I wanna do the same for my games. It's better to organize this way than an unique file. In an unique file many information can be easily searched by using CTRL + F or CTRL + L. But for information the you don't remember a key word, you're screwed. It's annoying read a file with hundreds pages just to find a little piece of information. Yes, and when I've misspelled a tag or search term, or forgotten to include it when I entered it…
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