| What I think makes an ideal adventure writing utility from the available Personal Information Manager (PMIs) programs out there...
1.) A customizable tree structure pane.
2.) A rich text editor with the ability to insert pictures and hyperlinks.
The hyperlinks should be able to link to websites, local executable files, or other documents within the program. Also, pictures that can be made into hyperlinks also.
3.) A search feature, idealy with both find and replace functionality. A feature I have not found but would like to see in these programs is the ability to find a particular word in a document and replace it with hyperlink code. This way I could link every occurance of a particular spell to its description located on some other note.
The following features I have not found in any of the PIM programs but would like to see.
4.) The option of having an HTML page to act as a note instead of just an rtf document. Of course the HTML page would need a side tab for editing the coded and a tab for viewing the results. This would be great because then adventure maps could be inserted in the notes that could also have image maps attached to them. THis way you could click on a portion of the adventure map and it would take you to a note with the description of the area. The HTML would be great also for the reason that you could run javascript programs right off the page you were viewing. For instance you could have an HTML page with an encounter description that contains javascripted controls for rolling dice, calculating jump distances, or various other rules helping programs.
By the way, I believe Keynote is planning this option for their upcoming version 2.0 rewrite of the program. There is a program called ideaspad that almost pulls this off but lacks a lot of functionality that other programs have.
5.) customizable toolbar buttons for loading various outside programs. | 
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