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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trevalon Moonleirion" data-source="post: 6308639" data-attributes="member: 492">Alright, sure!  Disclaimer:  I've made a similar post before, so cribbing from that old post heavily, and I'm sharing some screenshots that I took several years ago.  Curio has seen two or three upgrades since then, and is a much, much better program as a result of the changes.  I'd just take some more screenshots, but I'm actually using a beta version at the moment and I want to respect my NDA. Disclaimer 2: Do spoiler tags not exist anymore?  I usually like to hide big images when I'm flooding a thread with them, but they don't seem to be working.Curio is basically where my entire campaign lives, other than an Obsidian Portal wiki. It works well with the way I think and organize my thoughts, and it's really easy to get information into it.  It's also handy because it has a built-in Evernote viewer, so you can see everything in your Evernote account and drag it right into your "idea spaces" (pages).You can also export your projects to PDF, so you can store them in a cloud service of your choice and always have access (albeit read-only) on the go from wherever. I have two projects (what Curio calls its files) for my primary game: my journal/encounter planning one, and my campaign notebook, where all of the details about locations, NPCs, and other world-building stuff lives.   I split these into two files because I'll often want to reference things about the world quickly, and I can keep both things open and quickly swipe back and forth between the full-screened project files using Mission Control on my Mac like so:<img src="http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h132/JShadow007/ScreenShot2014-06-01at75832PM_zps6deda666.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />It might actually make more sense to keep everything in one project, but I've done it this way for a while so I haven't bothered to change it.This is a zoomed out view of a page in Curio.  It can hold pretty much anything--text images, multimedia stuff, but also is very good at mindmapping.  I'll often just sort of brainstorm a session and then work from the mind map during the game, filling in details as I go.  I make one page (on the left of the window) per adventure plot (roughly).  The shelf on the right holds tags I've made--clicking on them will take me right to whatever page the tagged item lives on:[spoiler]<img src="http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h132/JShadow007/Curio_adventurenotes.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/spoiler]You can also just type text on the page, then click somewhere else, and type more text, and sort of make your own concept map / flow-chart for an adventure.  If you command-click while you're doing this, it'll actually draw a line in between each to really make a flow chart, which is by far my favorite way to sort of plot out an adventure.Not shown above are sections.  You can divide up the left-hand list of pages into sections based on whatever you want. Here's an example from the newer version with most of the interface cropped out, but showing the above-mentioned sections.  Bear with my crappy Campaign Cartographer drawing and my interpretation of the Nentir Vale from the 4e DMG. I keep a copy of the map laid out on its own idea space because you can add little text boxes or graphics to a map temporarily to remind you of locations/encounters, etc.<img src="http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h132/JShadow007/ScreenShot2014-06-01at74353PM_zps28f65e0f.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />This is my improv page.  I found names in various generators and stole some from minor NPCs in a few video games.  They're listed with checkboxes so I can check them off when I use them.  Left table is a picture I took of a table in the DMG. Top links are to a few PDFs, including AEG's awesome Ultimate Toolbox.[spoiler]<img src="http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h132/JShadow007/makingstuffup.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/spoiler]Notebook:  I forgot about this in my post this morning.  I don't use Notebook as often as I used to, but it's a neat program (just recently updated with a new version) and has an iPad version.  Made by a company called Circus Ponies.This is the automatically generated table of contents for Notebook.  It's updated on the fly and makes getting to certain information quick.[spoiler]<img src="http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h132/JShadow007/NotebookTOC.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/spoiler]This is why notebook is really snazzy.  In addition to ridiculously good search features (the multidex shown in the TOC image above will literally make a list of everything--text, numbers, highlighting keywords etc--and hyperlink you to where it exists in the notebook.  Pictured below is a list of things with the keyword "service" which is basically any place the PCs might do business.  Each item will link back to whatever I have written about the place.[spoiler]<img src="http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h132/JShadow007/NotebookTags.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/spoiler]A lot of what I do could generally be replicated nicely in Microsoft OneNote.</blockquote>

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