I used to use OneNote, which worked ok but it got really crazy organizing and reorganizing every time we started a new chapter of our years-long homebrew campaign. Frustrated, I started looking around at other tools.

For the past year my players and I were using World Anvil to create a sort of online wiki for my players to replace the journal from our VTT which is not always online. I wanted to give them resources where they could check back on things that happened during the sessions, people they met, etc. I stopped using World Anvil recently because they straight up lost a bunch of my nested articles. I had articles nested in articles - which was something that I learned to do by watching their own internal YouTube guide videos. I asked for help on the official Discord server and was told “don’t use nested articles”, which breaks my entire organization methods - the same problem I came into with OneNote. Losing data randomly though isn’t ok with me. A lot of those articles were WIP and I had no backup…

I started using Kanka recently because it’s a small team and it seems like it’s going to work out, but before I get super invested, I wanted to hear from the rest of the community, so - do you all use any tools? How do you keep yourself organized, especially in a long homebrew campaign?

  • Snailpope@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I use Obsidian notes, it’s very similar to one note, but it saves everything locally as .txt files. You can pay some amount and have it sych to the cloud. Like onenote you can create folders and subfolders, you can open multiple tabs and have documents side by side, stacked or both. I even added a folder with all my dnd book pdfs and can open them in Obsidian right next to the notes, and word search the books. Super handy. You can also put links in documents to other documents. So if I reference an NPC in a lore doc I can link the name to the NPCs document. Also, when I had to transfer all the info to my new laptop, all I had to do was copy the main folder over and have Obsidian use that as the main folder. Bam, everything is exactly the same. So theoretically you could just, put that folder on a thumb drive or email it to your players and they would have the exact same set up. If you need to remove some info they shouldn’t have you can just remove the text files or folders from their copy.