Hey
@GM Rob!
I find myself regularly digging for some piece of data I know I put someplace. An NPC's stat block, a location map, the name of the weapons shop we went to last session, etc. from the Buckets video, it seems like those things just go in Pages and get labeled with the right bucket. Am I close?
Yes! This was a key reason we built Campaign Logger. You remember some bit of something - a name or where it's located or that it was noted two sessions ago or some other detail - and that's the only memory hook you have.
I found Evernote search terrible for this type of thing. Ditto other apps.
So I recommend making Search/Filter your friend. You'll find this in numerous interfaces in the app, sometimes at the top, sometimes bottom:
You can search Tags and normal text. For example, you could start typing
@JohnnFo to bring up a Page about your campaign's villain. Or just
johnn or
nnfour
This box searches
within your content as well, not just titles.
And you can click the disk icon to save frequent searches.
Use Pages like you would pages in a campaign book. And use Logs for notes, sidebar, and indirect information. For example, I have an Ideas Log and a Session Notes Log.
And if you click on a Tag or Page name, you can see all references to that in your Pages
and Logs.
Here's a quick video I just made to demonstrate. I hope it makes sense.
It's meant to convey you can find all mentions of something by clicking on its Tag. You can search for it too. And as you click around it's circular.
This means you don't have to remember where exactly you filed anything. Just start a search or clicking around and you'll find it fast. And you don't have to put things anywhere. Just type a Tag or create a Page and the thing exists and is findable in several ways.
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I'm in the process of trying to figure out where to put all the materials I've already prepared. Any suggestions on how to start? I'll noodle around in the rest of the Forums as well as this doesn't really seem completely an "organization" thing.
Pick up your favorite world or campaign book. Look at the Table of Contents.
Each chapters is essentially a Tag type (@ ! # $ etc.) for Pile & File.
Then look at what's on each page in each section. That's the type of info you'd put on a Page for a thing, whether it's a location, NPC, item, new spell, etc.
Then use Logs for throwaway details like quick notes, temporary details like ideas, session notes, transactions, and supplementary information. Related Resources perhaps might be a good metaphor. Such details don't clutter your main Page entry, but are there and linked to it.
If this is the wrong type of answer than what you were looking for, let me know.