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Campaign Journal is built to stay out of your way mid-session. Here's the whole loop in five moves.
| Create a campaign | On first run you name the campaign and the character you're playing, and you land straight in Sessions. Running two games? Add a second campaign and switch between them from the header |
| Write a session note | Tap the plus in Sessions. Give it a date and a one-line recap, then type as much or as little as you like. A note is worth keeping even if it's one sentence |
| Tag as you type | Type @ inside a note, or use the link button in the toolbar, to attach an NPC, location, quest, loot item, party member or creature. If it doesn't exist yet, the same menu creates it from the name you just typed |
| Track a quest | Give a quest a checklist of objectives and tick them off as you go. Pin one as the tracked quest and it leads the Where We're At card until you resolve it |
| Back up your journal | Settings has Backup and Restore. It writes a single file you control: keep it in your cloud drive or send it to yourself. Restore it on any device |
Common Questions
Never. Everything lives on your device, with no account and no sign-up. It works in the deepest dungeon of your friend's basement.
Write the note as normal and type @ where the name belongs, then pick them from the list. The name becomes a tappable chip in your text, and that session is filed in the NPC's own entry too. You never fill in the link twice.
That's the normal case mid-session. The picker offers to create them from the name you typed, and you carry on writing. Come back later and fill in who they were and what they wanted.
On the old device, open Settings and tap Backup, then save or share the file. On the new device, install Campaign Journal and use Restore to load that same file. Every campaign, character and note comes across.
Open the header sheet and hand over to a new character. The campaign carries on with all its sessions and quests intact, and the new hero starts with an empty bestiary, because in the fiction they never met those creatures. You can copy entries across deliberately if you want to.
Yes. Each campaign owns its own sessions, NPCs, locations, quests, loot and party, and nothing bleeds between them. Only your own character crosses over, carrying their bestiary with them.
We can't, because your data never reaches us: it only ever lives on your device. That's why the backup file matters. Set a reminder to export one after each session and you'll never lose more than a night.
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