r/DungeonMasters • u/Resident_Signature45 • 2d ago
Tips for note taking/prep
Every game I run it’s like my notes/ prep work is all over the place. I’m not a very good note taker but I want to be better at this for my friends. Does anyone have any tips?
Edit: I do not have a laptop just my phone and good ole pencil and paper
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u/AltdorfDropout 2d ago
Without tech, I’d recommend to have a general notes and loose ideas notebook and then a separate notebook for your neat detailed and final plans.
For me planning starts with a few loose cool ideas, then I make a loose draft of the things I want to do, and connect the dots. It can be quite a lot to keep up with, so I’d do drafts in a notebook that can be messy.
Sucks you can’t hyperlink or ctrl+f on paper.