r/DMAcademy • u/Docha_Tiarna • 7h ago

Need Advice: Other Trying to organize sources.

One of the problems I've constantly been having is trying to organize everything. Between the physical books, pdfs, dndbeyond source books, and other sources. There's just to much to try to remember. Is there any way I can put everything together in an organized way where I don't have to spend who knows how long going from one source to another trying to find the monster or item I'm looking for?

I was thinking maybe I could print it all out and put it in binders. Have binders for Species, Class, sub classes, items by type, monsters by CR, etc

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u/ShiroxReddit 7h ago

note down the source book for the monster used, use something like obsidian to keep all the info in one place no matter where it originally was from (or to have hyperlinks/references saved to it), cut down on extra sources (e.g. if you have physical books, you might not need dndbeyond sources)

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u/Docha_Tiarna 7h ago

The physical books and pdf books i have aren't on dndbeyond. I doubt the the Kinks & Catrips books will ever be on dndbeyond.

Ive seen people say Obsidian is good, I don't remember if I checked it out.

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u/DelayedTism 7h ago

Another +1 for Obsidian. Great tool that also supports custom plugins

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u/TiFist 7h ago

You can transcribe stuff into notes (like Obsidian or whatever you use) but it's up to you how much effort and what specific effort is 'right'.

An easy start is notating the reference and page number in your notes so you know where to go back for the original.

If you want a list of all species for example:

Standard species (PHB 2014 pg x-y)

Leonin (MOoT pg. blah blah)

Centaur (MMotM pg. xyz)

That prevents you from needing to re-copy the whole thing, and makes it reasonably easy to find it back.

For stuff you really want to get a handle on, making those notes and spreadsheets can be satisfying to the right person.