#I am also such an outlier with how much I use scrivener. oh my god.

[essektheylyss]

Regarding your tags on the Matt Mercer note post out of honest confusion: what is so bad about Microsoft Word? I know it's very unpopular but for me it has always done the job. Also, is there something you would recommend instead? (Sincerely, a DM whose notes also consist of printed out Word docs and who would love to improve upon their notetaking)

Haha okay just to clarify my loathing of Microsoft Word is very much a joke, and if Word works for you for note-taking, definitely keep using it!

That being said, for explanatory purposes I do like my notes pretty separated out, and I find that Word is pretty finicky with formatting even compared to a lot of other word processors, though most of them are pretty limited in that regard anyway. (If I was really going to go nuts with it, I'd learn Adobe Illustrator, but I'm just not that concerned about it.) So my real issue with Word is how the notes are organized.

I personally really like Scrivener for both writing and dnd notes, because I can separate things out into individual "documents" within the same project file and organize things further into stackable folders, and that helps my brain out so much.

I also got a subscription for World Anvil recently when they were having a sale, and I haven't used it for dnd yet but I do want to get more into it because it seems very promising in the same way, in that it also has templates that are built for worldbuilding in particular. However, I haven't used it enough to know whether or not it's overkill for my purposes, because I have also found that there's a very fine line of how much constraint in organization I can really handle.

But I absolutely must reiterate that if you find that Word works for you, and you aren't looking for any additional functionality, please do keep doing what you're doing, and fuck what I (or anyone else online) think about it!