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A New Tool?

Parody said:
Well, it's hard to beat free.
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It has been a while since I've used One Note. I use Evernote for my notetaking and management.

Although I've seen people do some cool things with OneNote, it seems like it is far more work than it is worth. Does it autolink, or suggest links when you create content links?
 
I don't think so. I know OneNote will let you add links to webpages but I do not recall seeing the ability to add internal links. It was one of the things that really drew me to RW from it when I switched.
 
MNBlockHead said:
Although I've seen people do some cool things with OneNote, it seems like it is far more work than it is worth. Does it autolink, or suggest links when you create content links?
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I use OneNote every day for work. It is indeed an awesome tool. Just not for RPG management IMO. It does not have auto linking. You can tell it to link to a topic/page by typing [[page name]].

So you need tell it where you want each link which is a fair chunk of work.
 
Same with myself...

OneNote is VERY useful for collecting information that I will later enter into RW... but as an information management system for an RPG on its own I find it lacking.
 
MNBlockHead said:
Although I've seen people do some cool things with OneNote, it seems like it is far more work than it is worth. Does it autolink, or suggest links when you create content links?
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Consider Evernote a stack of interlinked index cards, and OneNote an interlinked notebook.

Slightly different paradigm, but similar in many other ways.
 
MaxSupernova said:
Consider Evernote a stack of interlinked index cards, and OneNote an interlinked notebook.

Slightly different paradigm, but similar in many other ways.
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Thanks, that's helpful. And, like Gray Mage, I use Evernote to collect material to use in my games as a prep for what will go in RW.

I'm running Curse of Strahd now, though, so I'm not using RealmWorks currently. I use the book, Evernote, and have DnD Beyond open (not a fan of DnD Beyond for adventure material, but very helpful for pulling up spells and monsters or looking up a rule).

For combat tracking, college ruled notebook paper and pencil. :-) 5e is pretty easy and the Angry GM convinced me to stop dinking around with magnetic combat pad or software for something that just isn't as complicated as we like to make it.

I do find myself creating 5e characters in HLC, however, for the print outs. DnD Beyond's character sheet needs work. I find the online version clunky to use and the print-to-pdf functionality to be horrible compared to HLC.
 
I've moved a lot over to OneNote mainly because it is available on multiple devices, makes extracting text from images pretty easy, and is easy to get content into and OUT of.
 
Per Char I was told before the KS ended was working just the interface was clunky.

I am so glad I told my friends to wait until things were working to buy, as only I got taken.

I check back once or twice a year to see, if it is in yet.
 
I'm always amazed by these guys who come in saying this or that was promised by the KS and I go look and it isn't in any of the KS stuff. I'm sure all kinds of stuff got passed around by word of mouth but all you had to do was actually look at the actual feature list and the things that are still outstanding, and I'm not trying to make any less of these undelivered promises, is the CM and calendars.
 
Maybe some DMs really need those distinct features e.g. exclusive player reveal or calendars. For some items, there are workarounds like tables or exporting the data now with the custom tool.

For others like the individual player reveal - I would think that this isn't really a complete showstopper. Are there that many events that the whole group isn't a part of? Are you as DM spending all the time to setup individual snippets / topics containing the information that only certain players of a group should have?
Of course it would be great - but I suppose that it is not necessarily a show stopper.

In my group - no player would ever take a peek into the revealed player content I think. Maybe it would change with the web reveal who knows.. Maybe I will try exporting stuff to a webpage to test it, but at the table it would be unlikely to be worthwhile.

To sum it up Iam happy with RW and it's getting better and better. I would have wished that I would be owner of this lifetime pass, but heard about RW after the KS edition was finished. Still sad. But monthly payments for a bit of syncing and cloud storage will not make me pay that.

As suggested in other threads - Bring major features as paid expansions. Ppl can buy what they need. Provide a basic online storage or synching capability for free.

bye bye :D
 
There are campaigns built around different players knowing different things. It's not really my thing but it's one of those things that keeps coming up.

But I do really need calendars. I use the history of my campaign world extensively.
 
I try not to even think about the fact that I've written an entire additional campaign arc for my main realm that my players will likely never see.
 
HappyDevil, be glad you are not retired then... I average about 4-6 hours a day inputting data. Have since it came out in beta. The upside is when the 64bit build was released it made things much more nimble. When you have most of the Paizo and WotC stuff in and spend your time whiling away the others on ALL OF THE 3RD PARTY stuff (and there is so freaking much of it!) every little bit of speed helps! :)
 
Grey Mage said:
HappyDevil, be glad you are not retired then... I average about 4-6 hours a day inputting data. Have since it came out in beta. The upside is when the 64bit build was released it made things much more nimble. When you have most of the Paizo and WotC stuff in and spend your time whiling away the others on ALL OF THE 3RD PARTY stuff (and there is so freaking much of it!) every little bit of speed helps! :)
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Oh I dream of being retired !...Who doesn't, but I totally agree... I am only putting in Adventure Paths - haven't even contemplated started on bestiary's and associated content - probably don't need it with today's internet.

I like doing it. I do something a little different each one I do.

The first one is a mess, there is stuff everywhere, but I learned, I improved.

Combined with that I can now run it on my surface pro for a whole session thanks to 64bit without it crashing I am a happy camper.
 
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