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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8622974" data-attributes="member: 19857">When my games were primarily face-to-face I'd keep handwritten notes during my sessions.  They'd go into a folder to be stored with my campaign documents so I'd be able to remember what we'd done from session to session (my campaign documents would be printed out so I could refer to them in game and also so I could hand them to players if necessary).After moving online I now keep a Google doc with my session notes in it and my campaign documents rarely get printed out since everyone has a screen.  Even when we play at the table I'll now have my laptop next to me for notetaking rather than my pad and paper - I've just gotten too used to having it online and I'm never going to take my pencil-and-paper notes and transcribe them later (I know myself too well).  My session notes are now interspersed with my combat bookkeeping notes as well (which actually helps me to remember the combats and I can put relevant notes about things that happen during an encounter right there as well - I used to keep those as separate things and throw out the combat bookkeeping after a session).  My session notes are basically a living documentI also have reduced prep for my games to the minimum needed.  We play on roll20 but I've gotten my players used to whiteboard combats with proxy tokens there - I don't have time to create all of the tokens we'd need (nor do I always know what we're going to need anyway - my players will surprise me and I'll need to improvise).</blockquote>

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