Anyone using Onenote?

[Keefe the Thief]

To expand how hyperlinking is super-useful:
a) Download the big empty Untermountain map from Wizards. Change the size until you are happy with it at 100 % zoom. Look if text you insert has the right size compared to the rooms.
b) Right-click and use "set as background". Voila: Map you can write and paint on.
c) Search for a room you want to describe. Write a number in - lets say 27 (for room 27).
d) highlight the 27 and choose "create hyperlink to this paragraph."
e) Open new Tab, call it "room 27". Insert your hyperlink. Describe the room, insert monsters and treasure from the compendium.

Now, if you click on your hyperlink, it immediately takes you to room 27. Clever, uh?

 

[calimedic911]

OneNote PowerToys » Print Driver

it is a little tricky to use but once you get the hang of it.. plus it gives some much needed functionality...

Sean

 

[beldar1215]

Chatty DM mentioned OneNote in one of his posts and mentioned his template. Here is the link if anyone is still interested. I just found out about the program from his post and can't wait to try it out.

Gearing up: The Setting, Pre-Prep and the Adventure Plan : Critical Hits

Beldar

 

[beldar1215]

Chatty DM mentioned OneNote in one of his posts and mentioned his template. Here is the link if anyone is still interested. I just found out about the program from his post and can't wait to try it out.

Gearing up: The Setting, Pre-Prep and the Adventure Plan : Critical Hits

Beldar

Stupid double post

 

[Nifelhein]

I was using One Note lately, but since I am GMing 4th edition Masterplan has found a soft spot for me, it unites Onenote usability and 4th edition crunch in one place.

 

[Keefe the Thief]

Also, remember that you can download the Office 2010 beta for free and use it until october. You won´t be able to look at your notes afterwards, of course, but it´s a cool way of trying Onenote without paying. And i like some of the improvements, enough that i have converted all my notebooks.

 

[Wolf1066]

We use OneNote at work to manage our documentation and it's a brilliant tool. I thought of using it to keep track of game notes and (for my fictional writing) story notes but I didn't want to shell out for it.

Having found my way to this thread from a thread on how GMs keep track of game notes and reading what others have done, I'm now revising my rather "stingy" decision and am going to get a copy. It's way too useful - especially to keep track of the copious quantities of information I have (especially since a lot of my notes have stuff copy-pasted from other notes just to get the same information into two different files - I'd save a lot of disc space just linking all the occurrences to a single page in OneNote.)

 

[Wolf1066]

A quick question for those who have created things in OneNote - and sorry if it sounds like a silly question, but (as you may have gathered from above) I've never created a OneNote file, I've only ever used it to navigate through documentation set up by others.

Can you create linked data?

E.g. have the same information displayed on different pages that is derived from information stored elsewhere (either in the same document or stored externally) so that when you change the "master" file/page, all references to that information also change?

Specific example:
You have a group of character sheets with the characters' stats on them, elsewhere you have a side-by-side comparison table that has the attributes for all your characters displayed in columns (because you like being able to see at a glance who is the strongest in the group).

Can you set it up so that the data in the table is pulled automatically from the relevant fields in the character sheets (analogous to having a spreadsheet that pulls data from other sheets in the workbook for display in a different format) so that when you alter the character's stats in their sheet, it alters the data in the table?

Better yet, can you have the master data stored somewhere and change that master data by altering one of the references to it? Change the data throughout whether you tweak values in the comparison table or alter it on the individual character sheet?

 

[Hand of Evil]

A quick question for those who have created things in OneNote - and sorry if it sounds like a silly question, but (as you may have gathered from above) I've never created a OneNote file, I've only ever used it to navigate through documentation set up by others.

Can you create linked data?

E.g. have the same information displayed on different pages that is derived from information stored elsewhere (either in the same document or stored externally) so that when you change the "master" file/page, all references to that information also change?

Specific example:
You have a group of character sheets with the characters' stats on them, elsewhere you have a side-by-side comparison table that has the attributes for all your characters displayed in columns (because you like being able to see at a glance who is the strongest in the group).

Can you set it up so that the data in the table is pulled automatically from the relevant fields in the character sheets (analogous to having a spreadsheet that pulls data from other sheets in the workbook for display in a different format) so that when you alter the character's stats in their sheet, it alters the data in the table?

Better yet, can you have the master data stored somewhere and change that master data by altering one of the references to it? Change the data throughout whether you tweak values in the comparison table or alter it on the individual character sheet?

Linking Data -- yes you can, by using "Tags" you are able to build a index page that can hyperlink back to the document.

Does not allow you to have master data, you will have to change all locations. I have heard that this may be offered in the new version as it is an on-line tool.

 

[Wolf1066]

Thanks for that, HoE. Was hoping I could avoid having to change duplicate data manually.

At least it should be good for sorting out my game rules - which are a mess of Word files containing my house rules and amendments to the core rules used in conjuntion with the manuals.

I could scan the relevant pages out of the manuals and combine them with my house rules in a cohesive, searchable, rulebook. (Will certainly beat hastily thumbing through the books to find the sections I want)

And should also help keep my campaign notes in order and facilitate the transition from session as "planned" to Session Journal.