Campaign Management Tools
These digital tools strive to replace your physical notebooks and loose papers (seriously, go scan those before they get lost), making it easier than ever before to track every item, entity, and location in your world. You can spend months filling out your worlds, or just create a mind-map of names linked to each other with cryptic words that only you know the meaning of. That's part of being a Dungeon Master.
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World Anvil is a set of worldbuilding tools that helps you create, organize and store your world setting. With wiki-like articles, interactive maps, historical timelines, and an RPG Campaign Manager, we have all the tools you’ll need to run your RPG Campaign!
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Campaign Journals & In-Session Tools
See all of your adventure components on one page, with easy relationship management, cross-linking, and full markdown support.
Link anything to anything else (with fully custom relationship definitions), and filter objects by connections. Also, connect objects to Chapters and show only that Chapter's objects on your screen.
Turn on Campaign Logging Mode and track changes to objects (and take notes!) in real time.
Includes a Digital Story Teller Screen for use during sessions, which includes a dice roller and a chat log. Also provides access to your entire built world of information in the background.
DM worldbuilding tools as well as Player inventory tracking. Includes a handy group chat.
Neat shop mechanic: the DM can populate a shop with items, and the players can buy them, which modifies their inventory.
Powerful application for fast-and-furious note-taking with on-the-fly tagging of characters, items, locations, and more. Allows you to cross-reference your notes as you're writing them.
Contains some rules references, and handles automation of character sheet info. Can also store campaign notes.
World-Building and Catalogue TOols
Highly customizable. Publish "articles" for your information. Tags and cross-referencing is easy.
Includes a Digital Story Teller Screen for use during sessions.
Free-form Wiki, integrated Atlas, and collaborative Boards
Browser-based, and also works offline!
Mixes spreadsheet sortability with wiki-esque entry editing. Great for keeping track of locations, NPCs, lore, and much more.
Offline-capable Markdown file manager with fancy features, like adding tags and searching.
Your campaign gains a website, and you edit it as a website. A bit finicky, but allows lots of customization.
Amazing for populating your world with NPCs. Provides a powerful Relationships tool to help you keep track.
Very clean wiki-esque content creation tool.
WYSIWYG editor. Information is stored on pages that you can link to and share.
It's an older software, but it checks out!
Make a wiki for your campaign info. Player Characters can roleplay using text on a private channel.
Note-taking and organization Tools
Combines the functionality of GDocs, Evernote, GitHubWiki, Trello/Jira, and Airtable/GSheets.
Sly Flourish's thoughts on using Notion, with his own template
Locally-hosted markdown files displayed nicely in a fresh, modern note-taking experience
Uses notebooks and tags for holding content and cross-referencing material.
A novel way to organize information, whatever that information is. Lends itself easily to DMing.
An online spreadsheet tool with fancy content capability.
$40 Windows / $45 Mac (v2.0)
Their target audience is writers. The software helps you organize stories and information, giving an organizational platform for all of your long-winded ideas.
Mind Map Tools
Flowcharts, wireframes, sticky notes, and mind maps (free for up to 4 charts, $10/month for unlimited)
Mind mapping (free up to 3 mind maps, $4.99/month for unlimited)
Associative organization tool