Evil Jeff... The Notes Behind the Screen

Welcome to the Summer Conversations, a short series of podcasts in which I welcome a guest who brings their own topic of interest and we have a chat. The recordings are done in under one hour, barely edited, and released without fanfare.

Episode 7: The Notes Behind the Screen — Campaign Journals in the Digital Age

How do you keep six years of campaign lore from collapsing into chaos? Che and Evil Jeff compare notes — literally — on how they organise their RPG material. Jeff walks through his Obsidian setup for local, linked note-taking, while Che shares his journey from Campaign Logger to Gemini Notebook and LLM-assisted session writeups. Along the way they tackle NPC management, reaction rolls, extracting material from sourcebooks, and the elephant in the room: can AI tools help you run a better game without selling your data to the highest bidder? From pen-and-paper purists to encrypted digital workflows — this one's for every GM who's ever lost a crucial detail in a folder they can't find.

Big thanks to Evil Jeff for raising the question.

Game on!

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