Game organizational tool

Off and on, I've seen tools meant to organize information for roleplaying games, or just information in general. None of them really worked for me where my games are concerned. I've been using a Wiki, but it's cumbersome.

Awhile back I found an interesting toy, called TiddlyWiki. It's a "personal Wiki" written in JavaScript, is stored entirely in a single HTML file, runs in your web browser (I use Firefox.), and saves itself automatically. To, say, a USB thumbdrive even. You can view and edit multiple topics in one window, all at the same time. And it's fast… you'll hardly even notice it saving after every edit. (Shut off the annoying animation, though.)

Okay, that was interesting. But printing stuff out wasn't too convenient. Until I found GTD-TiddlyWiki… TiddlyWiki adapted to the [[http://www.davidco.com/|Getting Things Done]] system by David Allen. Now, while I had a bit of an interest in GTD, that's not what I wanted GTD-TiddlyWiki for… I wanted it because it printed to 3x5" index cards "right out of the box." Way cool, because index cards are how I already organize a great deal of my my game information. (And my new Canon Pixma iP3000 can print direct to plain index cards very nicely.) Now I can take notes on index cards, feed the info into my campaign wiki, and print out the revised notes to carry around with me for spur-of-the-moment creative sessions

So I thought, hey, this is cool… and pointed it out to people on the Fudge List. And someone pointed me to this… the TenFootWiki from Uncle Bear. It's the GTD-TiddlyWiki, cleaned out and pre-loaded with campaign information templates. Somebody already beat me to the punch, and they did a rather nice job of it. Just save it to your hard drive and jump right in, filling in your campaign information. Go check it out.