Quote from: Brigman on February 02, 2025, 01:08:33 AMI use college journal notebooks to write stuff down.  I save them.  I know.  I'm a dinosaur.

I'm a dinosaur too. I've been pretty satisfied with just a simple cheap spiral notebook and a pen.

I record/stream all my game sessions. At some point I go back in and edit the audio for snappy playback, and upload them to my podcast. Then, in between sessions (bi-weekly) I listen to the show and I know exactly what the PCs said and did. I feel I'm making better "decisions" deciding how the game world reacts to the PCs nonsense. Also, years later, I can listen again and remember how much fun, the different people that came and went. This also frees me from taking notes during the game. In turn, I can force my attention on my players more then what I am up to behind the screen. Now the only physical notes I take are prior to game session I list some bullet points on what really matters. And the stats of who they are most likely going to face. This has saved me so much prep time I sprung for my own campaign journal. I designed the pages in the way works best for me, upload the files to drivethru. Whenever I need a new journal I POD a nice new hardcover with some of my hacky drawings on the cover.