Evernote for Your Spell List
Just recently I’ve had the opportunity to return to the player side of the role-playing table and found myself in need of a method of tracking many different things, among them a spell list.
For those that have been following the posts here for a while know that I’ve had many tips and suggests on how to do just that (check out sticky notes for spells and use those index cards) but I decided to take things in a slightly different direction, I wanted to do it electronically. In other words, I wanted to my laptop to track my spells.
Enter Evernote.
Evernote is an application that has a “continuous tape” to which you can add all sorts of things, text files, images, to do lists, and so on. As you add items you can also categorize them – so I did just that, a created a number of notes, one for each spell in my collection and categorized them as spells for my character. I keep the list of them at the top and then simply need to select the spell I want and all the details are show at the bottom.
Evernote is not the only application out there that wasn’t designed for the role-playing public but it adapts nicely to it, and it’s not the only one I use – as I fine tune things I’ll be passing along what I’ve learned.
Are there applications that you use for your gaming? Take a moment to post and share.
May your dice roll well.
If you’re going to use a computer, why not use have the System Reference Document act as a searchable Player’s Handbook? You don’t have to worry about editing it at all and it’s really fast. If you don’t have an internet connection while playing, you can even download the SRD for even faster searching. You also get access to feats, skills, classes and the like. It also has a helpful DM screen with any information that’s needed.
I agree with you Aeolien and in fact I do keep a copy of the SRD open on my laptop while playing. The issue comes into play when you don’t have something that’s covered by the SRD – such as some of the spells my character uses from the PHB II. Since I wanted those at hand as well I combined everything into one Evernote category.