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?

  • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    ngl, I just have a whole bunch of nested folders with names like “Places”, “Plot Hooks”, “What the Villain Knows”, and “Maps and Tokens”. I use LibreOffice Writer for everything (or a barebones text editor for when I’m taking verbatim notes when my players are talking).

    If I could get my players to turn in their freaking sheets after each level up, that’d be nice.