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GM’s Second Brain

GM’s Second Brain

is a Java application for writing notes in a web format (not a web page, but a set of nodes with hyperlinks – a graph – Although you can export te results to HTML).

It’s sort-of like an outliner, except that it eschews the tree-structure outliners are so keen on, in favor of a messier and more freeform network.

The programmer, John Ughrin, explains:

This Program is designed to help Game Masters keep their heads, and to
allow easy access to information in play and to allow them add to that
information easily during play.

Basically, you can think of a campaign or adventure as a web of ideas
and thoughts. You can define the nature of each "node" in the web as its
"type". You can define your own types, and little icons to go with them.

…snip…

I was inspired to write this program after folks on the Fudge mailing
list kept mentioning how its hard to keep writing adventures/stories in
a campaign where a combat wouldn’t take up most of the session. It
occured to me that the format most of us use for writing campaign
information isn’t the most efficient. This is what my brain wanted, so I
whipped it up.