Anyone using Onenote?

[catsclaw227]

I just started using it this week when I saw this thread. I have had One Note 2007 for a while, but never looked at it.

What the hell have I been missing?!?!?!

This is an AWESOME note taking and DM tool.

[catsclaw227]

Originally Posted by Keefe the Thief

Gah! Beats my why the picture didn´t work the first time. Sorry Wonka - and i read your post and thought "hey, it´s showing up for me. Did he think i added two pictures?" And now i click on the thread again and it´s gone. Strangeness, your name is Picasa.

Anyhow: The picture:

Still not there, maybe png files aren't visible? But interestingly, when I quote you, I see the IMG tag and the image URL.

[Merkuri]

Originally Posted by catsclaw227

Still not there, maybe png files aren't visible? But interestingly, when I quote you, I see the IMG tag and the image URL.

The image hosting site may not be letting external pages view it. A lot of sites do this to save bandwidth. I actually put the image URL in my browser and could bring it up fine, then when I went back to this thread I could see it again. I think it worked that time because my browser had already cached the image.

Try Photobucket for image hosting. Or just post a link to the image instead of embedding it in the page.

[Keefe the Thief]

Well, i will be...
I created a new post, previewed it and clicked on the image two times after posting, even resizing it. And reloading the thread.
And now it´s gone again.
Bye bye Picasa, hello Photobucket:

http://lh3.ggpht.com/wahrwahrwahr/SN...untain%201.png

[Buttercup]

I just installed OneNote this morning, and I was immediately struck by what a cool campaign management tool it will be. Nerfherder pointed me to this thread, and I see that I was right.

I've been looking for good campaign management software for about 8 years, and haven't ever found anything I really liked. All of them were clunky or too structured. OneNote seems to have the flexibility I want.

Does anyone know if you can embed a playlist into it? Or even individual tracks?

I swear, I'd like to take a week off work to spend playing with this program--I'm that excited!

[joethelawyer]

thanks for this thread. this is one of the coolest programs i have ever seen. it seems like it was designed for a dm. and whoulda thunk it---i actually have it installed and never knew it. hehe.

joe

[Buttercup]

Originally Posted by Scurvy_Platypus

I kinda like Key Note for this kind of thing:
Tranglos software: KeyNote

It's free, and it's standalone. It does download as a "setup", but you can just grab the folder you copied it into and put it on a USB key drive and take around with you. No need to run the "setup" file again.

Looks like that Key Note program is abandonware. That doesn't make it unusable, but I'd prefer a program that is still being improved.

Then too, one of OneNote's great benefits (to me, at least) is the fact that it plays so well with Microsoft Office.

Honestly, I don't understand why Microsoft isn't making a bigger deal over this program. It seems like just the ticket for anyone who writes or does research.

[Tenniel]

I have used Lotus Notes for storing campaign material, but this is a rather large expensive package (though our nice organisation has organised home use liscences for employees). It is also a bit of work to design databases (though there are templates for journals etc). I made forms for races, religions, cultures, rules, player queries and also a character sheet (this was for 2e). I have given p on using Notes, just too cumbersome, so I am intrigued by OneNote.

There are freeware and open source notetaking products:, eg:
BasKet Note Pads
Jarnal
Springnote
Tomboy
WikidPad
Xournal
(hee hee and Keynote, I now see having got round to saving my post and see the above message... I will check that out, thanks)

Anyone used any of these?

[Hand of Evil]

Been using it for years...great tool

see sig for an old thread on different programs to to organize campaigns (Programs to organize campaigns)

[Mercule]

Originally Posted by Tenniel

I have used Lotus Notes for storing campaign material

I used to be a Lotus Notes developer. What I could see using Notes for in campaign management, I think you could do just as well with OneNote templates. The exception being if you used views/folders a lot in Notes, rather than documents or if you needed to crunch things, database style.

[bigwillt]

Hey all, just found this thread a few days ago and started looking around. Found Office 2007 Student edition at Staples for $75 after rebates. Was going to download the trial version and use it a while but was so convinced these posts and a quick look at what it could do I had to beg my wife to allow me to get it this close to Christmas. Just loaded and haven't even started putting info in yet. Wanted to take another look at the examples and thank everyone for their tips.

[Dr. Strangemonkey]

For those who are using Googledocs, you should also check out google notebook.

It does not do what onenote does, but it does help to fill the gap between what docs and note.

[w_earle_wheeler]

I've been using OneNote to organize Warhammer 40k army lists and to transcribe handwritten scanned notes (that are far too messy for OCR).

It does indeed look like it could be a great DM campaign tool.

[ThirdWizard]

I use OneNote for my PC character sheet and notes. It's awesome, as many have said here. I use a tiddlywiki for adventure writing and session notes, along with Excel, however. All awesome tools.

[Zustiur]

I too would like to thank this thread (and the other one on the same topic) for causing me to re-examine OneNote.
I now hold all my DMing data (other than spreadsheets) in OneNote, and am working on moving my characters into it also.
But more importantly from a day to day basis, I have been using OneNote for my work as an impromptu programmer. It's perfect for jotting down ideas while in the middle of other tasks, and the way it organizes everything is just wonderful.

My only regret is that I haven't actually run a game of DnD since I converted. Soooon...

[Sytonis]

Does anyone who is currently using OneNote for campaign notes have any advice on how to set up the tabs, pages and sub-pages? At the moment I am thinking along the lines of:-

Tabs - Characters, Equipment, Locations, Ideas, Adventures

Pages - [Character Tab] Character A, Character B etc [Locations Tab] Country A, Country B, Ruin A, Ruin B etc [Adventure Tab] Adventure #1, #2, #3 etc

Sub Pages - (Character A Page) Level 1, Level 2 etc or Stats, Items, Background (Adventure #1 Page) Session #1, #2, #3 etc

Any advice would be appreciated.

Sytonis

[Ebonyr]

I saw a thread in the computer forum on this site a few weeks ago. I got a hold of the program and its great! 5 Stars from me.

[Zustiur]

Tabs as follows:
Adventures | Sessions | Monsters | Combat | Characters | Rules | Arcs | World/Location

Adventures should be self explanatory, each page is a different one.
Sessions I use to keep track of what I expect to do in the next session, and what happened in previous ones. This is where game notes are kept.
Monsters is entries pulled from SRD and modified to suit my taste
Combat is an experiment - I'm not sure if I'll keep this one. Was going to use it for keeping initiative and HPs etc
Characters is just notes on the player's characters, one page each.
Rules is bits I regularly lookup in the SRD or rule books
Arcs is a description of how the adventures fit together, and what the various plot lines are actually about.
World/Location is any info about the world that doesn't fit into one of the other categories. NPC info would likely go in here.

I keep my calendar in an xls, along with big lists of names and such. That's where I'm currently tracking NPCs and locations.

[w_earle_wheeler]

Yeah, I'm not sure if there's a good way to track initiative, as I don't think there is any kind of auto-sorting option for tables in OneNote.

[Merkuri]

Originally Posted by w_earle_wheeler

Yeah, I'm not sure if there's a good way to track initiative, as I don't think there is any kind of auto-sorting option for tables in OneNote.

There isn't an auto-sort option, but you can easily drag rows up or down in the list manually. A little crossed-arrows icon will appear next to the row, and you just drag it up or down. It's the simplest re-order of any table that I've seen in an Office program, even counting Excel.