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  Dethstryke

  Posts: 50 March 2010

  Here are a couple things I use it for:
  
  Obsidian Portal Specific ---
  
  - Page Code:
  I find it sometimes easier to put the page code in One Note first and edit it there. It doesn't change the code, but lets you control the width of the code view. For wide-screen monitors, you can line up one or two more code sections for comparison pretty easily as well.
  
  - Adventure Log Updates:
  I write my initial drafts in one-note, then split it as needed (try to keep each entry to 3k words; that's not really a problem for many...) in sub-pages and re-write a suitable "first draft". This lets me organize each update and edit all in one place.
  
  - Mapping out Tags / Wiki Pages
  I found it handy to enter the name of my pages on their own little block and see how they connect to each other to make best use of Tags. That way I could make a big Ven diagram or something and start tossing each about until I found something that worked for most of my stuff and still wasn't too cryptic where people needed an encoder ring to figure it out. :)
  
  
  Just Game Specific ---
  
  - Reference & Research:
  When I do some prep, I ususally investigate any skills, feats or abilities that the upcoming adventure or monster has. Currently I'm running a module which I incorporate my own stuff, but I'm always looking for better and more awesome ways to run anything. To those ends, I scan message boards and when I find an idea in a thread I like... copy & paste into One Note. It will paste the text, along with a link of exactly where it came from for later.
  
  You can do this for all kinds of media; pictures, text, video, etc.
  
  - Loot lists:
  In order to know how much equipment I'm giving out, who has what (for those nefarious cursed items or triggers later in the adventure), and how much money is "in the system" I make a check-off box (Those boxes are in the TAG list, btw) list for loot. This ties into Paizo's Gamemastery item/weapon cards. Each magic or special item of interest gets a card that has a number code on them. That way the thing they get two years ago doesn't get lost in the shuffle (now... where did you pick that sword up?).
  
  The table includes:
  Found? (check box) and item code | Identified? (check box) and name | Who has it | Cost in GP | Caster Level | Charges | Page #
  
  You can make the table very easily in One Note.
  
  - Character Magic Equipment Description Page:
  One thing I use it for as a player is to make single page reference sheets for all the magic items I'm carrying. Sometimes I have to type it in, but with PDFs and HTML SRD documents for some games it makes it very easy to copy-clip those individual items into a small box in One-Note on a single page and arrange each box height and width to all fit. As you gain and loose things, you can just move them to another page. Copying them over to a new page for each character can save time in the long run, especially for the more common equipment. This was a life-saver for me in high level gaming, when I had equipment that spanned four or five books.
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  Tempest

  Posts: 25 March 2010

  Wow! Very informative, thank you!
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  Menagon

  Posts: 1 March 2010

  I found one note to be incredibly useful for organizing my game notes. When I was using it I had access to a tablet PC, and could take advantage of the ability to write notes directly onto the screen. If you can swing it, that's the way I suggest using it. One useful technique I found was that if you have PDFs of your game books, you can cut sections out of the PDF and paste them into One Note. I found this useful for compiling different charts and tables that were scattered around the books. I also used that technique with a blank NPC stat block. The trick is that you can set an image (as it treats these imported chunks of PDFs) as part of the background. That way you can write directly over the image instead of just accidentally moving it around.