What are Reddit's favorite Mind Mapping Apps?

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> Like the cliché goes, we started Obsidian because Erica couldn't find anything that can satisfy her need to build a personal knowledge base. She has tried all kinds of software from TiddlyWiki to TheBrain; nothing felt right though. > Quarantine finally gave us the chance to start making it. After thinking about it some more, we decided on the three most fundamental directions of Obsidian: - Local-first and plain text; - Link as first-class citizen; - Make it super extensible.

Sadly, no (I'm the OP, just using my other reddit account).

While technically it can be shared, I'm including encounters and other stuff onto the map and so it's kinda tailored specifically to my game and not "generic" enough to be shared.

BUT... I'll tell you this, I've always been a fan of Miro (miro.com) and you can create a free account to create a board to make this in. If you own all of the official Strahd maps, you can recreate this yourself.

What I didn't share in my video above is that I also have some fog of war over top of key areas so that my players (originally) won't see the town/city/dungeon maps until they have logically explored the area, in which case I'll uncover them. It works out well.

I've been around the block with so many different VTT's and while many have more robust features, 3D dice rolling, etc, I'm finding the "single giant map" to be more rewarding and interesting than using other tools with glitzier features. To each their own, of course.

One thing I do as the resident note-taker of the group is use https://obsidian.md/, and then just put the notes on GitHub as a wiki of sorts. People can technically make changes, but they don't.

It's also really easy to make links, since there's a fair bit of auto-complete. And if the file doesn't exist when you clikc on it in edit mode, it is created immediately and you cna start typing.

The fact that I can do [[God of War]] and have it turn into [God of War](../../Characters/Gods/God of War.md) makes it really easy to get it to just work.

Looks neat, but I personally use https://obsidian.md/, and find that it models my brain super closely - Specifically the quick [[wikilink]] style of linking to (even nonexistent) files.

I'll definitely have to give nb a look though, that's neato.

It's been created.

Edit: Here: http://www.mindomo.com/view?m=fb034651b34d43ff8941cfc78efdc7d2

post here: http://www.reddit.com/r/switcharoo/comments/nwp69/so_i_made_a_map_of_the_switcharoos_as_best_as_i/

Obsidian https://obsidian.md/ is what Gray:has been using for a bit. I recently got into it and with a few plugins it's everything I hoped a notes app would be: mobile sync, easy text entry, notes aren't locked in (everything is in local markdown files) etc

Its a long journey, but if you are lazy:

Here is a map of the original switcharoo posts, with a poorly made rage-comic in the center which explains the origin.

Ditch Microsoft and check out Obsidian. It's a powerful, yet simple, way to create a knowledgebase. It's free, and it's file system based. That means you can use google/dropbox/one drive, etc to sync your notes. You can also pay for Obsidian's syncing service if you don't like those other services.

It is a desktop app, but they've just released their mobile app. I even use it as a player to make a wiki for my fellow players based on what we know.

There's a ton of user mods, but for D&D, the vanilla feature set works perfectly out the gate.

My Mindmap

I've been in the business for about 3 years, and that is what I've known beforehand/picked up on the way. The trick is to know the whole chart by heart not by memorizing but by experience. You'll get the hang of it. The worst thing you can do at your job is completely rely on a chart like this as you go along, otherwise you're not going to grow, and you aren't using your fluid intelligence.

Best of luck with your job! PM/reply if you need any clarifications or other tips.

Here's what I do:

1. I take daily notes. These are just random thoughts and things I do throughout the day. It really helps me remember things. I use Obsidian because they have a plugin for daily/weekly notes and it's super helpful and quick to use. Some days I don't take any notes because I had a bad day or did nothing, that's okay. Just do it when you want to remember things later.
2. At a certain cadence (weekly, monthly, whatever), I look at my daily notes and try to pick the most important things I did and transfer them to a "brag sheet". Here's more info about what is a brag sheet.
3. When it's time to have performance review talks with my manager, I transfer stuff from my brag sheet into a drive document that are basically my achievements, what I did, what impact it had, etc, and I also include peer feedback on this document.

I really recommend for everyone to have some kind of journal, especially if you work at big companies like I do. I changed managers 2 times in the last year, and if you have no way to quickly transfer context between managers, your career progress will kind of "reset" because the new manager doesn't know you. All my managers really, really appreciated me keeping these journals, it helped them help me so much, and I got promoted every time I felt I deserved it. I'm preaching to the choir since you already do this, so this is more for the other readers.

For behind the scenes stuff, check here: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

You will have to do some searching, but wikis, blogs / cmses, note taking tools, chat tools (slack clones, etc), and more can all be leveraged for your gaming.

If you find some gems, it’d be great if you came back and told us about them!

I suggest looking into ghost for blogging, mattermost for chat, Joplin for notes.

There’s also Obsidian, which is free as in beer and local: https://obsidian.md/pricing

Rain's actually a planned feature, including systems to capture rain water for drinking water.

while nice, It seems that parts of the graph are still missing.

If we look at: The Reddit Switcharoo Mindmap you can see the Graph is a lot bigger.

(you should ignore the disconnect, as somebody has removed a switch-a-roo comment, however we routed around that.)

You can view a list of a lot of the switch-a-roo comments over at [/r/switcharoo](/r/switcharoo)

A complete, up-to-date Graph would be very nice. :D

I’ll try to recommend a productivity app that doesn’t usually get mentioned in threads like these.

MindNode is a killer app for creative brainstorming and thinking. I use it as a giant canvas for storing thoughts, expanding on ideas, taking notes, and a big repository for unorganized information I might need later. Kind of like an evolving wiki for myself.

I used to use Evernote for this, but the layout makes way more sense for how my brain works. It’s not for everyone, but it’s definitely for me.

Learn and know the product well, use your PM skills to kick ass on the implementations (I assume you will be in there not just pre-sales?) and be very good at keeping your clients (internal/external) well informed and happy with you providing help for key decisions. Never let bad news ferment and own any issues. Make yourself invaluable but do not BE invaluable. Always make it so you can be removed easily from the equation (once a project is done) while making sure they know how valuable you are. Counterintuitive, but when doing re-orgs or turnarounds, the first thing I find and target to change are any one person dependencies (management perspective - this is a RISK to have). From your perspective, this also can limit your growth and new opportunities. If you are the only one who can do it right/well, you may be the only one doing that until you retire. Another golden key for me was to eliminate, automate and standardize everything I came across to reduce "work", increase output and have more available space on my plate. I then took on more. Do that judiciously and you'll learn more, get exposure to new things and become a "keeper". Oh and track EVERYTHING - accomplishments, challenges, team issues, etc. Journal it or use a note system (check out Obsidian.md for a nice easy and free tool if you like). If you ever end up redundant again - you'll have a nice track record to show and likely little idle time before the next gig. Best of luck

Couldn't agree more. Anki has genuinely changed my life. I used to have a really bad memory, but now I feel like I can memorize anything with SRS.

Have you looked into Obsidian btw? That's another tool I started using this past year that's actually changed my life (I'm really not exaggerating when I say that).

It's an open source version of Roam Research, but they have a massive ad-on ecosystem so you can basically add any functionality you want. It stores your notes as markdown files, so you can keep your notes wherever you want. I keep them synced through iCloud.

They have a really good plugin that lets you connect Obsidian to Anki and write your Anki cards in Obsidian. My biggest pain point with Anki previously was writing cards (it's hard to keep track of which topics you've written cards for, etc.)

Now, I just do it with Obsidian. I'll write Anki cards while I'm taking notes on the book/video/whatever and Obsidian will automatically sync the cards to Anki.

Nice job! You've clearly put a lot of effort into this one, it seems polished.

I sometimes use miro.com for brainstorming and drawing diagrams and mindmaps. The most valuable tool for an app like yours for me would be the ability to export diagrams to presentations slides or just as png files. Unfortunately miro has those only under paid plan, and they did not have individual plans last time I checked. Yours seem to have the presentation system built in, but it's not quite the same. I hope this feedback is helpful, but don't take it too serious, go for the features you see fitting, you did a great job so far!

There are plenty of tools for that - just search for an online whiteboard. Why couldn't you have been on a call with him using one of these? And "it's just not the same" isn't a valid answer.

My team is fully remote and we went through a one hour brainstorming session for one of our new products, using an online post-it board (think it was https://miro.com/ or similar), and that went fine. No messing about afterwards taking photos of the board and uploading it somewhere, and cleaning everything up.

You should checkout Miro, it's essentially a collaborative whiteboarding tool. I started using it for my online D&D games over a year ago, and turned all the mcdm playtesters into it.

My players like it because they can keep all their notes on there as well, along with any handouts they find, and reference them. Also because you can turn on seeing other peoples cursors it's easy for them to point at stuff they're talking about.

The mind map should be up to date, so you can see some stuff there. Thing is, I remember almost everyone wanting them to work on the performance. And working on/fixig performance is not something that is done overnight.

Well..spoilers, so don't click if you'd prefer to dive down the rabbit hole yerself and open a zillion tabs, but here's an outdated map of the warren. And it ends here.

It wasn't that long because one of the links has been deleted...

It was supposed to look like this but it skipped a large section

If you're going from a baseline of having your notes in word documents (yikes) then sure notion is going to be an improvement.

There are much better pure notetaking alternatives, though. Writing in pure markdown with something like https://obsidian.md/ is a far, far more effective 'notes brain' than notion, for example.

I am not a handwriting notettaker at all (Obsidian.md all the way). However, writing by hand in the Supernote really helps to structure the ideas even though it's just a stream of consciousness. There is a distinct difference in outcomes from the handwritten brainstorming and the typed-in brainstorming. In my observation, the handwritten brainstorming gets you much closer to the results that you'd get if you had a real person to bounce the ideas off.

For such sessions i don't get hung up on the calligraphy and the text may look as ugly as I make it. The most important part is getting idea to the paper (screen) as fast as as close to what's in the head as possible. Typing does affect the thinking as I would subconsciously optimize for sentences that are easier to type in (less punctuation-heavy and, I assume, even different word choice as the muscle memory may run ahead of the thought process and fingers would type in some words that are commonly used together).

Re: hating the handwriting. I do hate mine too and am not interested in improving it for the sake of having pretty handwriting, but after some 3-4 hours with the Supernote I developed a certain techno-genic discipline. I recognize that I should write at least good enough for the OCR engine can understand me (I use the iOS app Handwriting Recognition and, lately, Google Vision). I found that using a 7mm dotted grid works the best for me. The 8mm grid makes my handwriting too large and the 6mm too dense. The good part is that i don't have to write like that all the time as for ugly handwriting is much better suited for free-flowing brainstorming sessions.

> Many, when I describe intersectionality, people tell me I'm misrepresenting it or that people don't really believe it the way I've described. This entire article is a refutation of such individuals...intersectionality is exactly what I call it...a way to generalize individual experiences as representative of the group and stack them up against each other. They literally use the progressive stack in this article...being black is "one dimension" and female "another dimension" and being both is "worse" than one or the other, with being white and male as neutral or positive. How the hell am I misrepresenting this racist theory?

The problem is that a lot of what people call intersectionality are actually meta-theories surrounding it. All intersectionality actually says is that there exist issues at the intersection of identities that don't exist for either of the individual axes. It's like the opposite of Venn/Euler diagrams, where the exist things in the overlapping parts of the circles that don't exist in a single circle.

The meta-theories around this have taken it, combined it with the OOGD, and ended up with a lot of racists/sexist/x-ist ways of looking at the world, but that isn't the fault of intersectionality any more than racists using pseudo evopsych arguments are an indictment of evolution.

Not a current student but an alumnus, and I'll offer Obsidian as a note-taking + journaling alternative for tools like Notion or Roam

Been using Obsidian lately for noting down useful reference material + thoughts, but also redoing past uni notes

It's cross-platform software for managing a "vault" of markdown files. Basically to edit and manage your own private offline wiki or knowledge base. It also has tons of user-created plugins that do all sorts of cool stuff.

https://obsidian.md/

Check yourself. There's LOADS of provable theft and they can maybe dance around it in discord to some degree but try pressing them about the India Covid Relief Money....then look at your 777 BNB Transaction. Then look at the date the charity was voted on in the first place. The transaction happened nowhere near in line with when the Covid Relief money was theoretically pulled. By the way ASK them in discord WHICH charity they donated to. You won't get an answer other than "they are still looking for the right charity" or another smoke and mirrors answer. Here is the entire flowchart of safemoon wallets with important wallets and transactions labeled, highlighted trxs within wallets, and interconnected scams nobility and piggybank and how THEY tie in on chain. "Papa"'s side projects.

Flowchart: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J\_lx5kv5k=/

Well, the most annoying part is done :) Now comes the part that can be confusing. I have a miro board that shows you interesting crafts from older content you may want to have. The only thing I did not add was the crafted transmog because there is a lot of that.

For profession combo's I also have 3 recommendation setups on another miro board. They are set up in a way to have the most efficiency when it comes to gathering and materials.

Pick whatever you find to be handy because you have work with it. I can only give you suggestions.

I hope this has helped out a bid and if you have any questions just let me know.

Obsidian! I recently got into it and conveniently they have the iOS app now after completing a long beta. Some of the best features IMO:

1) It is simply an offline client application which reads a folder containing markdown files and metadata on your device, meaning you own all of your data and you are responsible for it;

2) The community plugin stack has fantastic support thus far, I really like the one for Mind Maps because that’s how I like organizing information;

3) You can theme it however you like, using either your own CSS, or a community provided theme;

4) The client is free on all relevant devices, the only things that cost are their device sync service and publish service. The former will make sure your notes are the same across your devices w/ backups. The latter will generate a static site (look up static site generators) which essentially displays the notes of your choosing on the internet as a static website.

I am really looking forward to the continued growth of the community and the platform as a whole. I’m also really interested to see how applications like Obsidian and Roam change the future of how regular people take notes and use documentation on their computers.

Link for the lazy: https://obsidian.md/

Obsidian.md is an excellent piece of software I use. Moved to Obsidian a few months ago from OneNote and I am sooooooo happy with it. The downside is that there are no good plugins at the moment for capturing directly from the web.

This is how one person I know organises theirs: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_kmJ9A1E=/

Sadly, I can't share mine right now as I am on my phone, but mine looks like a more traditional map, with many colour coded lines between characters showing relationships etc.

➔ NOTE: The OP used the Individual Free Account and most likely downloaded the appropriate App from Miro.com.

To the OP - You know you have reached a "balanced factory" when your in-game spaghetti factory looks just like your whiteboard production planner! 🤣

Thanks for sharing.

We just have "family tree" type powerpoint documents like this quick google search that we need to submit to the CSS every month even if nothing has changed. They're a pain in the ass to format but usually we only have to change out one of two names. CSS manages organizing them into a master recall roster.

You're TOTALLY the first one to come up with this idea!!1! NOT.

If you guys would bother 5min and look at the f***ing mindmap you would find out that it has been on there for MONTHS.

I am sorry for being harsh, but I am sick of reading the very same suggestions week after week because people are to lazy to use the search function or have a look at the mindmap/list of suggestions...

Was suggested a gazillion times before (use the search function), is on the Mindmap as a planned vehicle and there are even Screenshots and videos of them.

Evernote is really great. I write non-fiction so I use the Web Clipper in Chrome to save my resources.

A really great one for writing fiction is XMind. Especially if you have a lot in your head that you need to get out.

https://www.xmind.net/download/win/

the best one I encountered and this is the one I personally use, is obsidian.md really the best one I could find, cross platform, easy to learn, GREAT community extensions, currently I don't have a single complain

Check out Obsidian! It’s an absolutely incredible (and free) app that lets you create rich, linked wiki-style notebooks. It stores everything locally on your computer (or phone, its on mobile too) as plaintext so you always own your stuff. You can also get add-on sync and publish-to-web support (for a price, base app is free).

There’s a toooooon of plugins from the community to have stuff like maps support too. It requires a little bit of markdown know-how, but it can help you with formatting stuff as well (and they have a more traditional WYSIWYG editor in progress)

Let me know if you try it out! I use it all the time for all sorts of stuff. Also check out r/obsidianmd

All my notes are in Markdown format in a folder synced to my Seafile server. Historically I just use VSCode to write notes but I've been trying out Obsidian and am liking it so far.

I used to use Evernote way back in 2014 but their applications kept getting more buggy with every release. So I switched to using plain Markdown files in a synced folder and never looked back.

I really liked Notion's features when I poked around it a year or two ago (just to see if I could steal some organizational ideas) but no offline and closed format are non-starters for me.

I use Obsidian to create plaintext notes. It allows you to install plugins, one of which is called “Obsidian to Anki” which creates flash cards from your notes.

There are various ways to set it up, but what works well for me is to have a line in my notes starting with “Q: “ treated as the front of the card and a line with “A: “ treated as the back of the card, and to use curly braces for cloze deletions. For example, this is note would result in two flashcards, one a regular question/answer card and the other a cloze deletion card:

This is just a regular note and will not be turned into a flashcard. 

Q: What is the capital of France?
A: The letter “F”. 

The capital of France is {the letter “F”}. 

You can make use of their own service, Obsidian Sync ($4/month), to sync your notes to the cloud. Alternatively, you can put your folder with notes (vault) in iCloud/OneDrive/G Drive/whatever and sync it that way.

A mobile app is currently in a private beta which you can access by contributing $25 to Obsidian.

I do not mean this personally to OP, but I am amazed how many people don't get this. It is the main advertised "selling" point of obsidian. The first thing in big letters taking up the landing page of Obsidian.md says: "Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files."

I used to use it, but I’ve since shifted to using Obsidian, which I prefer by a mile. It has a really in-depth linking and media insertion feature, it’s free, uses markdown for formatting, and saves everything to your hard drive in plaintext so you don’t need an internet connection to use it.

Sorry, I should have linked it: https://obsidian.md/

It's a note-taking app with a lot of features and community behind its ability to work as a "second brain" which fosters the kind of connection-making creative process I was describing.

Personally, as I grow older, I find that I'm more inclined towards focused work (at least once I motivate myself to start lol) at the cost of creativity so Obsidian and the process has been really useful to grow those few moments of spontaneity (going down those rabbit holes and having epiphanies) into something more concrete.

It's mainly the ability to link and search across basically everything in Obsidian. I have it set up as a wiki, both for my worldbuilding and other notes, so it really is a reflection of my mind, and of my rabbit-hole diving into Wikipedia and other websites.

You can do a lot of online collaborative exercises in Miro. Check out some of the example prioritization templates, or you could even re-create your own monopoly money in it using stickies or shapes.

They moved to diagrams.net (not sure how long they'll redirect).

https://www.diagrams.net/blog/move-diagrams-net

Tip: You can create a new diagram even faster by going to diagram.new or diagrams.new instead of having to remember the full app.diagrams.net address.

That's what Rust currently is and I respect your opinion but this game has gone as far in the direction of "gun-fps" as it should for now.

We have an extensive variety of firearms and ammunition, guns that offer different playstyles and an okay-curve from early to late (gun wise, gameplay wise not at all since there is a massive lack of content).

Take a look at the mindmap http://mind42.com/mindmap/7abd1334-d170-42e7-b869-f74010b9b143

The "Better Weapons" part looks pretty good by now, yet things of the "Priority" list are lackluster at best.

Also, the weapons part doesn't even make quarter of the mindmap while things like farming (which in its current state is a farce. I grew up on a farm and I can tell you that much, the farming in rust is as close to reality as russia is to a civilized country. Hint: Extremely far away) makes a pretty chunk just as a feature itself.

Rust is and can be so much more than just your generic survival shooter game and in my opinion it should be! because why not? There are so many shooters out there, if I want to go marry round and round and shoot people I play CoD. If I want to play a survival game in which you don't just kill people mindlessly all the time I want to play Rust.

I run with a decent size group and I'm definitely not bashing on groups anywhere in my post and I didn't mention lone wolves at all either.

Also on the mind map passive defenses are already planned.

http://mind42.com/mindmap/7abd1334-d170-42e7-b869-f74010b9b143

It'd be cool to see an updated 'future rust' plan (http://mind42.com/mindmap/7abd1334-d170-42e7-b869-f74010b9b143). The first iteration was seriously awesome and got me really pumped for what was to come. I'm sure your plans have evolved over the weeks- would love to hear about the evolved far out and not-so-far-out ideas!! :D

It's also great to see all the progress you've made on it. Wow

I'm surprise MindNode hasn't been mentioned already, as it is more specifically oriented to "idea management" than note taking: https://mindnode.com

MindNode makes mind mapping easy. Mind maps are a visual representation of your ideas, starting with a central thought and growing from there.

I use theBrain to maintain a personal view of my social network. I organize people into different hierarchical categorization (hobby, geological, academia, religious organization, family, etc) and link people who know each other. In the notes section, I put how I know them, and other info that might be useful later.

Notion - Unlimited blocks and pages. There are unofficial Linux apps available, but I don't know if they work properly. I love Notion because there's more than just blocks and pages.

Obsidian - Free second brain. Also available on Linux. I only use this for writing. You can do more but I don't want my writing system to be complicated.

I use a tool called Obsidian - there are others like Roam Research, Notion, etc. but Obsidian (and its Graph tool) works for me.

I liken it to digital gardening or interior design - when it's done well, you just have this really pleasant knowledge base you can meander through.

When I think back on how I did this before (essentially from memory or digging through my Google search history), I cringe, I feel like I wasted at least a decade of good learnings by not having a tool like this to capture it and organize it all in.

> If other parts interrupt, you typically ask if they can relent so that you can continue working solo. If they can't, then you work with that part instead. I find keeping notes about which parts are interrupting+where I left off helpful because it takes me non-trivial brain-power to interact with parts, and pen&paper can fill that role fine. Keeping notes about the time you spend will also be helpful too.

Yes! I find that keeping notes and some way a record for each part very helpfult. I try to orginize a folder for each part using Obsidian. Ofcourse, I fail to do this everytime but that's ok.

Obsidian is a note-taking and knowledge management app by the people who created Dynalist, a popular online outliner and one of my favorite tools. They think of it as “an IDE for your notes.” It lets you turn a collection of plain text files into a rich network of linked thought.

The knowledge management tool Obsidian allows mermaid blocks in its markdown files. Might be worth checking out if someone wants to get up and running fast to tinker with mermaid, since it has that live markdown preview like VS Code.

Standard Notes & Joplin are both Open Source & Client-Side encrypted by default. They also have no Licencing restrictions on what you can or cannot do with their software.

Obsidian I couldn't find their Source Code, & going through their EULA surrounding Licencing & "add-on services" makes me uncomfortable. Also looking at their Pricing page, it looks like you're paying $4 or $8 USB per month for "end-to-end encryption. Joplin & Standard Notes enforce client-side encryption by default on all their mobile applications. This means the contents of your Notes are invisible to the server storing & syncing them between devices. Therefore Standard Notes & Joplin can't spy on the contents of your notes. The same can't be said for Obsidian. And even if they claimed it to be the case, it isn't Verifiable if their Source Code isn't public.

• https://obsidian.md/eula

• https://obsidian.md/pricing

So either use Standard Notes or Joplin. Both are equally reputable. Their syncing servers could also be self-hosted.

I use Obsidian to write it up as a wiki with links, tags, and index pages. The app has a plugin which allows you to view backlinks, outgoing links, and even a visualization of all related pages as a graph/web. It might be exactly what you are looking for. There are similar apps with the same features btw, in case Obsidian doesn't work for you.

Interesting problem. In a regulated environment, you have constraints: ie, you can't get work Done until it comes back without some kind of approval.

So the main thing about working in a regulated environment is that very constraint: the regulators.

A few suggestions:

1) have a public planning board that includes colors for ROAM analysis goes out as far as you need to, and put milestones on it for delivering and receiving work (horizontal) vs teams (vertical). Put stickies on the board for everyone to see where those milestones are.

2) put string (literally: yarn or string) in between the things that depend on deliverables from teams

3) accept that regulatory means constraints

4) make sure you have everyone on a team that the team needs to complete some kind of releasable/deliverable work completely (ie do you need a compliance person per team? what about a secretary? etc.)

So part of this depends upon your teams, the other part depends upon your tools.

1) Use Scrum if you have complex work and frequent deliverables, use Scrumban if you need a lighter weight framework that allows you to publish work more frequently, use Kanban if many of your work items are the same size and you don't need to go too deeply into why things succeed and fail

2) do you meet and think about your tools, people, processes and relationships?

3) do you have executive buy-in?

4) do you have program goals?

5) do teams set goals?

6) ask people to read the Scrum Guide to see at least what is available to them.

Happy to discuss, I would learn a lot. Best regards.

I think (think) it sorta started with this, which was made by a fellow Redditor (can't remember their name):

https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_khvn65k=/?moveToWidget=3074457351339184371&cot=12

Basically, it's adding Levistus as a sort of alternate big bad for the end of the campaign, which adds oomph to the Ythryn chapter. There's certainly no official version yet a la mandymod's mod for Curse of Strahd.

In my version (I think), Levistus is interested in the Spindle in Ythryn because it could dispel the magic that's keeping him encased in ice. Avarice is working for him, making her way in a sort of parallel to the party in a search for Ythryn (basically getting them to do her work for her in getting access to the glacier, etc.). So the final battle will be something maybe in Stygia or somewhere Stygia-adjacent.

Try Miro, maybe? https://miro.com It's an online collaborative whiteboard, frequently used in the TRPG community. You can drag and drop everything you want, adding text, arrows, drawings, etc. Everybody sees what everybody is doing, in real time. You can put the sheets in there and a bunch of tracking cards to write on and to copy paste at will. It works great!

For me Miro has been the most powerful tool. Perfect fro everything:

• Facilitating workshops
• Roadmaps, planning sessions and grooming
• Sketching

I started using it with the team a bit before COVID started, I am very visual and stuff like google docs does not work for me, once we all had to start WFH we had such an advantage by having this tool with us.

I've only played Rust of the two, but it depends on what he likes. If he's more into PvP, I'd go with Rust. There's currently no real PvE threats in the game, so PvP is the centerpiece. There's a ton of raiding bases, killing on sight, and running for your life. However, there are PvE servers where other players can't attack other players and bases can't be raided, but, again, there are currently no real threats to your survival outside of other players. There are plans to add more environmental threats (both weather and enemies) but it's unknown how far off those additions will be. But the devs are very active and significant updates occur on a weekly basis.

From what I've heard from friends, H1Z1 sounds a whole lot like Rust but, of course, with zombies. They've said that the zombies are real easy to kill outside of cities but there are tons in them, so you just kinda run in and grab whatever you can and get out. Killing on sight also apparently occurs frequently in H1Z1, but that should be expected in these types of games I suppose.

Personally, I would go with Rust. It's far from perfect and has a long way to go in terms of what they intend to add (see their plans here), but it is fun and challenging and the devs are active and consistent. It's also worth nothing that apparently H1Z1 is going to be free-to-play eventually, but that will only happen when the game is fully complete. I believe they estimated that to happen later this year, but I wouldn't really count on a certain date until it actually happens.

First of all I gotta suggest going back to therapy - sometimes it takes a few tries to find someone you hit it off with. And like you said, you have to want to change or it's not going to work.

That being said...maybe start by brainstorming and writing out some life goals. Try making a mind map. Can be big stuff like marriage/kids or little stuff like getting back into a hobby.

When it comes to implementing changes, habit stacking can be really helpful. That means you identify a habit you already have and attach a new one to it - maybe you already make coffee in the morning, so add in 5 minutes of meditation while it's brewing. Do one habit at a time and take it slow.

And keep in mind, it's going to feel cheesy and uncomfortable at first. You're gonna feel some resistance. Good luck!

Pacing is about hitting the major plot points at the right moments. The common advice, which I agree with, is that plot structure is 8 major points, 4 of them caused by the protagonist, 4 of them caused by the antagonist. All of them has some sort of reveal. Plotting is basically figuring out what your 8 reveals will be. Reveal the main plot at the Inciting Incident or delay it to the Key Event, either way by the time the protagonist gets to the 1st Plot Point, he/she can decide to respond to it.

Fair point. I tried putting my markdown into Obsidian.md, which can export to PDF natively, but when I copied and pasted it, the formatting got all messed up. I was suuuuper tired at this point and wasn't thinking clearly at this point. Better preparation would've solved all my problems.

Are you looking for something that works online or offline?

I've not tried it myself, but someone posted a program called Fantasia Archive a while back that's supposed to be like WorldAnvil, but free and offline. A less world-building oriented program that I have tried was Obsidian, which I found worked quite well.

Io uso Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/) che ti permette di prendere appunti in formato markdown e di fare dei collegamenti tra varie pagine di appunti.

Se però vuoi un ulteriore livello di organizzazione, che so filtrare gli appunti per giorno o argomento, allora Notion è la cosa migliore

I like using https://obsidian.md. The internal links help to organize my content. Instead of rewriting the same page content for a specific area, I can write [[Goblin Camp#Area 10]] which will set up an easy reference to the existing content.

The downside is that Markdown syntax sucks for any kind of table structure, so you might still wanna insert links to a Google spreadsheet.

Not sure if you require an online tool or not, but if you're a huge markdown fan you should also check out Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/). Electron-based local tool that uses Markdown but offers some similar functionality to Roam.

I got on Roam right after Thomas Frank made his first video about it. I thought it was great, but that was the same weekend the service blew up overnight. Lots of people lost data. After that, I started looking for an alternative right away. What an absolute nightmare.

I especially hate being stuck in a browser window taking notes. It makes me feel like I'm on a google doc or something like that. I was born in 1995 and I ctrl-s like it's my only god. Roam and its webpage-only attitude just turns me off, knowing that no matter how much I ctrl-s, my data can still just disappear from under me.

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Actually there are a lot of options that are duplicating Roam's features. I think Obsidian.md (recently into open beta) is worth a try, at the very least. It has daily notes, as well as a lot more customizability than Roam does. In fact, I'm pretty sure anything Roam can do, so can Obsidian. (Except perhaps the pomodoro.) No, it doesn't have a mobile app yet, but it saves files as plaintext markdown (.md) files in a plain directory, files can be synced and encrypted by any means, and both iOS and Android have reliable markdown editors. It's also a much cheaper service.

I organize all my notes digitally, on the computer. I find it makes it easier to edit and reorganize things, not to mention simplifying sharing them. Currently I've been using Obsidian, but there's a lot of options out there.

I'm not "trying" to like it, I just didn't get into it.

https://obsidian.md/images/screenshot.png

That just looks like a big-o-fluster-cluck.

I write in markdown, a LOT. Several github repos and easily 100 md files. I just like the idea of having them all in one place easily accessible. I thought Obsidian was "the way", but after messing with it for a couple of days - nope.

However with fzf and some simple flags, I have instant access to them. So not really an issue.

I use Obsidian (https://obsidian.md) and their tags feature, and have so a large graph view setup for my clients. I find this (synced to git or their services) work well, especially with the add-on extensions. Their PDF viewer inside the application works well too.

I've asked myself a few times whether I should get a tablet, so I decided to answer it with UX (disclaimer I'm not currently employed)

Miro! I will recommend it to my grave. It's free for three boards and...I think unlimited members? IDK. Definitely at least two, hahah.

It's a flowcharting app, you can just copy-paste images into it and stick post-it notes wherever you want. You can do all sorts of wild things with it. And best of all, it's browser-based!

Here's some screenshots of my development for Nulaxia, to show some examples.

Can you write your ideas on post-it notes and position them on the Impact vs Effort Matrix?

Then, you can pursue the idea with biggest impact and least amount of effort from you (i.e. your skill level for that idea).

Also, before ranking the ideas, you can fill out the Ikigai template which can potentially answer some questions about your interests.

Any sort of custom automated tool would run into copyright issues, since K&W Warfare rules aren't Open.

However, if you're just looking for a tool, most of the playtesters, and people at MCDM use Miro https://miro.com/ to run their battles.

Also, Familiaize yourself with this website, It has some great stuff. Shameless plug, even though I need to add the rest of my sessions. I run the Followers of the Flame group, you can zoom out and see the Adventure Summary on the far far far left. https://miro.com/app/board/o9J\_khvn65k=/

RFtools dimensions is definitely the fastest way to get absurd amounts of resources. For some things you'd want ore (lapis, redstone, quartz + certus quartz.) For others you'd want blocks. (Emerald, diamond, gold.) The builder block can be used to quarry out the RFtools dimensions but you could just use a SS Alfsteel AIOT or something similar to mine it out. You probably want the cubes feature, and make sure it isn't the hollow ones.

If you've never used rftools dimensions, this might help.

Some additional information will help but I have some initial suggestions:

1. Get their input. You're asking questions to us that you should (also) be asking them. What do they want to see? What are they interested in talking about? Are there events they want to do? Group engagement goes a long way.
2. Instead of PPT slides, shift over to a collaboration space. People can throw down comments, thoughts, and reactions in real time that way instead of waiting for a turn to speak. I don't know what your school provides, but there are free options out there including Miro (3 board limit but that's definitely workable), InVision Freehand (unlimited whiteboards and members, but I don't love the functionality compared to other options), or something that's a part of your existing software ecosystem like what Microsoft has.
3. Marketing is huge. A big reason why school clubs fail is because people don't know about them, or if they know about them they don't really know what the club does or how it's worth their time. Make sure you're making your presence known. A "grand reopening" works well. Do you have a teacher/prof sponsor that could potentially let you stop in to advertise it in their class?

you could allways pick a gardening that support your proffession.

Herbalism = Alchemy or Inscription
Mining = Blacksmithing or Engineering or Jewelcrafting
Skinning = Leatherworking
Tailoring = Enchanting

and some races have increased skill

https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_kssILDs=/?fbclid=IwAR2Glyq-uWjCuSJbC3s8Yes_1NPnHQm84pcu_aHlN069SUWNaHm0z2bdfBc

It's not you, it's the recruiting process your company is using. It's broken. You're trying to do good work in a shitty system, and it's incredibly frustrating. Yes: it happens in many different companies, so not just you.

Two things rarely work in solving Recruiting-process issues: more people or more money. Think about it. You're describing a broken recruiting process. Adding more people to the mix just adds more confusion, stress, and conflict.

Money is an easy non-fix and just ends up being spent on "the trappings of Recruiting" like new systems, "better" job postings or being forced to going to a "fun team dinner, no drinks."

From what you've described, your company may not have the internal knowledge necessary to fix both your Recruiting and your team-performance issues.

But, if you want to figure out what's broken, start by mapping out the steps of your Recruiting process; keep your map simple How To Map a Process. Once you know how many steps you have, add in who owns each step and the average time it takes to move from one step to the next, etc.

Once you have your map, troubleshoot away: you'll see pretty quickly where the biggest pain points are: "Accounting is releasing all their annual Reqs at once with the same level of priority," "Jim in Marketing isn't providing feedback on candidates for over two weeks," "our assessments have a high abandonment rate"

You see where this is going - you can now try to fix what is really broken, versus hiring another Recruiter into a shit system.

If you decide to do this, post your questions and we'll help you out. It's pretty easy, really.

Hope this helps and let us know questions.

Your question isn't clear.

Are you trying to draw a flowchart on a piece of paper, but don't know how to do it? If so, see here

Or are you trying to write a program to draw a flowchart? If so, what language are you using, what have you got so far, and where are you stuck?

I believe the trading system you mentioned is what the Facepunch team is going for actually. Looking at their mindmap (which is a bit outdated I think, since some things on it have already been implemented) you can see they want to have a server-transitioning system where certain servers would be richer in a certain resources, allowing them to be imported and exported by players.

• Will there be workshop implementation? (To create custom items and official ones getting put in the game?)

Propably yes. They are looking into user created content, nobody knows yet how it's exactly supposed to work to not be immersion breaking and to not fck up balance.

• Do we have a random world generator? (Sorry, I don't know)

Yes, there are randomly generated worlds as well as static maps ('Hapis island') - depends on the server.

• Will there be growable plants? (Like fruits and stuff)

They are already in, pumpkins and corn. Work in progress tho.

• Why are the animals and hemp plants so rare? I think this is one of the reasons why most people KoS.

Propably you're in the wrong biome, in the rgassland/forest there's usually hemp everywhere.

• I saw that you feel cold, wet, starve, etc. When will those have effects on you?

They do have effects on you. You loose health and die if you are too cold or too hot for too long.

• Fishes/crabs to kill and eat?

Planned

Have a look at the mindmap of planned features, pretty much everything you mentioned is explained there. http://mind42.com/mindmap/7abd1334-d170-42e7-b869-f74010b9b143

ALL of these have been suggested some several times, Facepunch even did concept art for some of these ideas long before anyone thought of them, others have also provided concept art of their own. http://mind42.com/mindmap/7abd1334-d170-42e7-b869-f74010b9b143

Working on three parts. TvT, TvP and TvZ.

Far from finished, and I dont suppose ill finish soon, because i dont have experience with a lot of the builds, but in the future maybe :)

Check out this link (if you haven't), it's a mindmap for rust which was released some months ago I believe. It gives a general idea of how they envision the game's future.

no, it's one of the known bug of the mind map, in there there's written: "uncrouching happens client side regardless of restrictions" and it's labelled as "urgent" http://mind42.com/mindmap/7abd1334-d170-42e7-b869-f74010b9b143 but it's a very old bug, so i don't know how many hopes there will be for a fix soon.

Prone is on the mind map, but it's in the 'maybe' section... which is strange to me. Now that we can't turn grass off anymore, it's one of the best ways to hide from others if there are no bushes around.

I think we will never get the same exact experience, legacy provided, in the new Rust. Things are going to change, if it's for the better or worse is a matter of taste.

But it was kind of inevitable that Rust would change. Even if Garry kept legacy going, things would have changed. Most of the visuals were placeholders and the game was pretty unpolished, after all.

I think we just need to wait a bit longer for the game to get more updates. Adrenaline inducing events will definitely come back.

In the meantime you can take a peek at the Dev Map to see what Facepunch has planned for Rust: Link

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/sc2-strategy/465527-zerg-overlord-placement-zvz#1

There was just a link for what to do when your opponent does "x" flow chart, but i cant seem to find it atm

EDIT http://mind42.com/mindmap/532a6107-f78b-4682-9b52-9852062c0703

i don't know if you're on ATZ daily, otherwise you'd have already seen this awesome mindmap by switzerland's great mYiZervas:

http://www.reddit.com/r/allthingszerg/comments/273xtv/zerg_mindmap_by_myinsanitys_zervas/

link to the mindmap::

http://mind42.com/mindmap/532a6107-f78b-4682-9b52-9852062c0703

there's pretty much everything you need on every match up. check it out.

cheers

/r/switcharoo also this might help

It's a joke that's apparently been going on for 2 years-ish and is just now an extremely long rabbit hole. I believe theoretically if you follow the branch of the tree wherever you find one long enough, you'll eventually make it back to the original post.

I followed a new one today, but ended up back to where I started... Its happening. People are linking in a non linear fashion... soon enough I think, itll get complicated enough for that people will start getting lost ending up where they began or stumbling into new areas unventured places where only a few have reached and only a few remain....it could link the whole hive together, if...

I tried to map my adventure, I hope this will prove useful to coming adventurers curious about this phenomenon.

My favorite Mind-mapping app has a great series of screencasts that go into topics like 'Why Should You Mind Map', 'Brainstorming', and other topics. Even if you don't use the software, the concepts apply to paper mind mapping equally well. Check it out.

http://www.thebrain.com/ A useful tool for mapping relationships between people and organizations.

Jan Irvin has provided his MK-Ultra investigation brain available for download or online perusal at links here: http://www.gnosticmedia.com/links/brain/

This software is pretty powerful. However, I'll warn you that I got BADLY burned by them with one of their upgrades. Wiped an entire years of data out. I pleaded with them for some assistance and they were incredulous at best. Yes, I should have backed up before I did the upgrade. Shame on me.

Another that I'm playing with right now that's also EXTREMELY powerful is called DevonThink. It's worth watching their intro video.

Then there's good ol' Evernote....