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<blockquote data-quote="Ketherian" data-source="post: 7652850" data-attributes="member: 19595"><p>Then: Giant 4-drawer filing cabinet of doom; many (many) 3" 3-ring binders. Duo-tangs and pretty blank-paper books.</p><p>Now: <a href="http://www.tiddlywiki.com" target="_blank">Tiddlywiki</a>, directories full of PDFs, and <a href="http://www.obsidianportal.com" target="_blank">Obsidianportal</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Often, especially when seeking inspiration. </p><p>I'll go through the remnants of the black filing cabinet (now just a few loose folders I've not yet scanned), sources in print that I don't have the digital versions of, old game logs (written in blank paper books). And I'll run searches on PDFs, stumble on old files, load old images...</p><p></p><p></p><p>The first few times, yes. But that feeling has faded.</p><p>Now I can get just as nostalgic over computer files as over hard-copy.</p><p>Sometimes I think it's more a mood thing. Some days I want paper. I write in my blank-paper books, make lists, print out copies to mark-up; and other days I just keep notes in files on my computer or on the tiddlywiki for the campaign.</p><p></p><p>I like the lack of back problems (from lugging all my source material about), the speed in which I can put stuff away (I only dig out the sources I don't currently have electronic copies of), and the ease of finding stuff (I <3 search). </p><p></p><p>One thing I do have though is a backup drive. Not DVDs. Because my backup is just another drive on the network (copied twice - once on the network, once not) - it's a contiguous mass of my gaming history, so access is easy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ketherian, post: 7652850, member: 19595"] Then: Giant 4-drawer filing cabinet of doom; many (many) 3" 3-ring binders. Duo-tangs and pretty blank-paper books. Now: [URL="http://www.tiddlywiki.com"]Tiddlywiki[/URL], directories full of PDFs, and [URL="http://www.obsidianportal.com"]Obsidianportal[/URL]. Often, especially when seeking inspiration. I'll go through the remnants of the black filing cabinet (now just a few loose folders I've not yet scanned), sources in print that I don't have the digital versions of, old game logs (written in blank paper books). And I'll run searches on PDFs, stumble on old files, load old images... The first few times, yes. But that feeling has faded. Now I can get just as nostalgic over computer files as over hard-copy. Sometimes I think it's more a mood thing. Some days I want paper. I write in my blank-paper books, make lists, print out copies to mark-up; and other days I just keep notes in files on my computer or on the tiddlywiki for the campaign. I like the lack of back problems (from lugging all my source material about), the speed in which I can put stuff away (I only dig out the sources I don't currently have electronic copies of), and the ease of finding stuff (I <3 search). One thing I do have though is a backup drive. Not DVDs. Because my backup is just another drive on the network (copied twice - once on the network, once not) - it's a contiguous mass of my gaming history, so access is easy. [/QUOTE]
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