Onenote, Tutorial

OneNote Tutorial: Page Backgrounds and Templates

There are three things that I find important to creating notes that look visually pleasing. A proper use of Headers and Indented paragraphs (Outlines), especially since you can collapse and expand entire blocks of content this way Hidden Tables A page background that isn’t a boring white. The solution to #3 is to use an image as a page background.This…

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OneNote Tutorial: Organizing Adventures

Here’s a little post about how I go about organize my D&D notes. These categories are collapsible. Notebooks The Notebook is the root of the Onenote Hierarchy, so lets start there. Personally I have two D&D notebooks open at all times. Both books share a simple thought process when making them; Page Titles are King. Page titles will quickly standout in…

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OneNote Tip: Using Tags in Campaign Notes

Onenote has an easy-to-use tag system that let you categorize your notes. You can tag anything from single lines of text to entire paragraphs. You can even create your own custom tags. For me, the two tags I use most often are a custom “DM Narration” tag (which adds a speech bubble icon next to the tagged text, making for a nice visual…

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Onenote: Tomb of Annihilation Adventure

That didn’t take long.  Appendix: I made good use out of the ‘Link to Paragraph’ feature. This especially came in handy for the Encounters Tables, since it was a huge table with examples for each result underneath. There were a lot of new monsters and dinosaurs to add. I stuck with the same formatting, and added some pictures for the…

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Onenote: Storm King’s Thunder Adventure

I set out a long time ago to create notes for Storm King’s Thunder. Chapters two and three really burned me out. But at long last, I’ve finally finished it…. …just in time to start reading through Tomb of Annihilation >.< Better late than never though, right? The notebook is a beautiful one though, and I learned some lessons. I thought I’d…

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Onenote: Curse of Strahd Adventure

First, a retrospective: Curse of Strahd was the second adventure that I ever ran as a DM, and the first notebook that I spent a considerable time organizing. A few years have passed since I created this notebook, and naturally my organization methods have evolved and changed over this time. I’ve decided to go back and edit this post, turning…

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Onenote SRD Download

This SRD notebook is based on my personal notebook, although I’ve gone through it and removed any content exclusive to the paid products (for example, the monster pages only feature the stat blocks from the SRD, not the descriptive text paragraphs and images from the official Monster Manual book). In an effort to make sure this public Notebook features all the content that WotC have released…

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What’s Missing in the Free Version

Since people have been asking, I’ve compiled a list of the content that was removed from the free NoteBook. For this notebook I plan on sticking to official rules and books, and wont be counting Unearthed Arcana entries. Spells 357 spells from official pdfs have been aggregated into this Notebook. Currently only 39 core spells are missing. The following core spells are…

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D&D Onenote

This is a personal project of mine, a OneNote Notebook. If you’re not familiar with OneNote, it is a free word processing program that creates its page to emulate an entire notebook in all of its non-linear glory (no files sitting in folders, no having to scroll through hundreds of other pages to open the one you want). This digital notebook is complete…

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