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Hello all,
After I got tired of formatting not existing in the character sheets, I quickly created a Chrome extension. Currently it's only integrated into the Notes-Tab and only with Headers, Unordered Lists, Bold and Italic.
What do you think of it? Should I work on it more, or is there no need for it? What would be good next additions?
Check out my Browser Extension: BeyondMarkdown, which seamlessly converts markdown in character and encounter notes into beautifully formatted HTML, making note-taking more efficient and readable. GitHub, Chrome/Edge, Firefox
Other than aesthetics, what would the 'formatting' of the Character Sheet do to benefit players?
Believe me, I'm fairly OCD, and love the organized example of what you are showing above. I was just curious if there was a feature that you had in mind that would be a benefit for all players.
Cheers!
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Breathe, dragons; sing of the First World, forged out of chaos and painted with beauty. Sing of Bahamut, the Platinum, molding the shape of the mountains and rivers; Sing too of Chromatic Tiamat, painting all over the infinite canvas. Partnered, they woke in the darkness; partnered, they labored in acts of creation.
Currently it's just aesthetics to benefit the visibility. The reason why I and my players always use external apps to take notes was because it's easy to lose track of thing, without proper formatting.
Also it was more of a proof of concept for me, to see how easy it is to inject content into the page. For the future I'm thinking of adding a database in the background to synchronize certain information across multiple character sheets. This would be helpful for stuff like shared knowledge, inventory, the upcoming Bastion system, etc.
Do you have something in mind, that would be helpful for players and DM?
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Check out my Browser Extension: BeyondMarkdown, which seamlessly converts markdown in character and encounter notes into beautifully formatted HTML, making note-taking more efficient and readable. GitHub, Chrome/Edge, Firefox
Do you have something in mind, that would be helpful for players and DM?
Happy Friday Goaku,
I did not have anything specific in mind, but just today, I was looking for a place on my Character Sheet to add a few notes into the "Extras" tab, and realized that there is not an option to do so.
Other than a place to be able to keep some basic notes, I can't think of anything at the moment.
Cheers!
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Breathe, dragons; sing of the First World, forged out of chaos and painted with beauty. Sing of Bahamut, the Platinum, molding the shape of the mountains and rivers; Sing too of Chromatic Tiamat, painting all over the infinite canvas. Partnered, they woke in the darkness; partnered, they labored in acts of creation.
You're amazing for taking this on, as it's honestly embarrassing that DnDBeyond has not fixed this issue after years of requests. If I can do it with a simple pencil & paper, they should at least be able to do it with a computer.
Can you share the Chrome Extension you've created when ready? I'll put it to immediate use! Thanks for whatever you can do.
As far as suggestions, it would be great to have character sheet formatting options like:
Bold
Italics
Underline
Strikethrough
Alignment
Font Family
Font Sizes
Text colors
Bullet List (with bullet style options)
Numbered List (with number style options)
Indent line
Indent paragraph
Indent list
Insert horizontal line
Insert new sections (e.g. Personal, Quests, Locations, PCs, NPCs, Miscellaneous, etc.)...otherwise everything gets jumbled into "Other" which isn't good. I usually fill up the entire Notes section before Session 1 with backstory & all the orgs, allies, enemies, info, etc. associated with that backstory. Where is a person like me supposed to keep the notes learned during the campaign once it starts?!
This gives me motivation to keep on developing. Thank you!
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Check out my Browser Extension: BeyondMarkdown, which seamlessly converts markdown in character and encounter notes into beautifully formatted HTML, making note-taking more efficient and readable. GitHub, Chrome/Edge, Firefox
You can already do some of that in the homebrewer system with <em></em> for italics, <strong></strong> for bold, and • as a bullet point. So if you’re homebrewing anything in DDB’s system, those will work in the snippet fields. I don’t know if that information will be helpful to you at all, but I figured I would let you know.
Check out my Browser Extension: BeyondMarkdown, which seamlessly converts markdown in character and encounter notes into beautifully formatted HTML, making note-taking more efficient and readable. GitHub, Chrome/Edge, Firefox
Currently it's turning h1(#) titles inside the OTHER-section into their own sections, and hides the OTHER-sections and adds corresponding tabs to it. I'm still working on the interactivity, for editing those fields, since they are technically part of the OTHER-section.
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Check out my Browser Extension: BeyondMarkdown, which seamlessly converts markdown in character and encounter notes into beautifully formatted HTML, making note-taking more efficient and readable. GitHub, Chrome/Edge, Firefox
Check out my Browser Extension: BeyondMarkdown, which seamlessly converts markdown in character and encounter notes into beautifully formatted HTML, making note-taking more efficient and readable. GitHub, Chrome/Edge, Firefox
I found the install instructions...but no Firefox :(
Good point! version 0.3.0 now has Firefox support!
I've also removed the settings. So it just works, without any special tags to add to the notes. This also helps with getting to the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-Ons pages, and make the extension official!
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Check out my Browser Extension: BeyondMarkdown, which seamlessly converts markdown in character and encounter notes into beautifully formatted HTML, making note-taking more efficient and readable. GitHub, Chrome/Edge, Firefox
Do you have something in mind, that would be helpful for players and DM?
Happy Friday Goaku,
I did not have anything specific in mind, but just today, I was looking for a place on my Character Sheet to add a few notes into the "Extras" tab, and realized that there is not an option to do so.
Other than a place to be able to keep some basic notes, I can't think of anything at the moment.
Cheers!
Hey Laird_Denton,
what exactly do you mean by "notes into the "Extras" tab"? What was the exact thing you wanted to do? There is already a way to add notes to the creatures in there, like for spells, actions, items, etc. via the Customize option.
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Check out my Browser Extension: BeyondMarkdown, which seamlessly converts markdown in character and encounter notes into beautifully formatted HTML, making note-taking more efficient and readable. GitHub, Chrome/Edge, Firefox
You're amazing for taking this on, as it's honestly embarrassing that DnDBeyond has not fixed this issue after years of requests. If I can do it with a simple pencil & paper, they should at least be able to do it with a computer.
Can you share the Chrome Extension you've created when ready? I'll put it to immediate use! Thanks for whatever you can do.
As far as suggestions, it would be great to have character sheet formatting options like:
Bold
Italics
Underline
Strikethrough
Alignment
Font Family
Font Sizes
Text colors
Bullet List (with bullet style options)
Numbered List (with number style options)
Indent line
Indent paragraph
Indent list
Insert horizontal line
Insert new sections (e.g. Personal, Quests, Locations, PCs, NPCs, Miscellaneous, etc.)...otherwise everything gets jumbled into "Other" which isn't good. I usually fill up the entire Notes section before Session 1 with backstory & all the orgs, allies, enemies, info, etc. associated with that backstory. Where is a person like me supposed to keep the notes learned during the campaign once it starts?!
With the use of ShowdownJS, the following formatting is possible out-of-the-box:
If there is more need for stuff like underline, font-family, alignment and text color, I will look deeper into it. Right now I'm fixing the issue that the numbered list elements aren't shown properly. Regarding list-element-style options: I will look into it, but it's not of a high priority currently.
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Check out my Browser Extension: BeyondMarkdown, which seamlessly converts markdown in character and encounter notes into beautifully formatted HTML, making note-taking more efficient and readable. GitHub, Chrome/Edge, Firefox
what exactly do you mean by "notes into the "Extras" tab"? What was the exact thing you wanted to do? There is already a way to add notes to the creatures in there, like for spells, actions, items, etc. via the Customize option.
Greetings Orbytale,
An example... I'd like to add a note about my living shadow (a reminder for myself) as I am cursed with a Dark Gift and want an easy location to reference some basic notes, etc.
Dark Gifts cannot be added to a character in DDB yet, so a place to put some info like that is helpful.
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Breathe, dragons; sing of the First World, forged out of chaos and painted with beauty. Sing of Bahamut, the Platinum, molding the shape of the mountains and rivers; Sing too of Chromatic Tiamat, painting all over the infinite canvas. Partnered, they woke in the darkness; partnered, they labored in acts of creation.
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Hello all,
After I got tired of formatting not existing in the character sheets, I quickly created a Chrome extension. Currently it's only integrated into the Notes-Tab and only with Headers, Unordered Lists, Bold and Italic.
What do you think of it? Should I work on it more, or is there no need for it?
What would be good next additions?
Check out my Browser Extension: BeyondMarkdown, which seamlessly converts markdown in character and encounter notes into beautifully formatted HTML, making note-taking more efficient and readable. GitHub, Chrome/Edge, Firefox
Greetings Goaku,
Other than aesthetics, what would the 'formatting' of the Character Sheet do to benefit players?
Believe me, I'm fairly OCD, and love the organized example of what you are showing above.
I was just curious if there was a feature that you had in mind that would be a benefit for all players.
Cheers!
Breathe, dragons; sing of the First World, forged out of chaos and painted with beauty.
Sing of Bahamut, the Platinum, molding the shape of the mountains and rivers;
Sing too of Chromatic Tiamat, painting all over the infinite canvas.
Partnered, they woke in the darkness; partnered, they labored in acts of creation.
Hey Laird_Denton,
Currently it's just aesthetics to benefit the visibility. The reason why I and my players always use external apps to take notes was because it's easy to lose track of thing, without proper formatting.
Also it was more of a proof of concept for me, to see how easy it is to inject content into the page. For the future I'm thinking of adding a database in the background to synchronize certain information across multiple character sheets. This would be helpful for stuff like shared knowledge, inventory, the upcoming Bastion system, etc.
Do you have something in mind, that would be helpful for players and DM?
Check out my Browser Extension: BeyondMarkdown, which seamlessly converts markdown in character and encounter notes into beautifully formatted HTML, making note-taking more efficient and readable. GitHub, Chrome/Edge, Firefox
Happy Friday Goaku,
I did not have anything specific in mind, but just today, I was looking for a place on my Character Sheet to add a few notes into the "Extras" tab, and realized that there is not an option to do so.
Other than a place to be able to keep some basic notes, I can't think of anything at the moment.
Cheers!
Breathe, dragons; sing of the First World, forged out of chaos and painted with beauty.
Sing of Bahamut, the Platinum, molding the shape of the mountains and rivers;
Sing too of Chromatic Tiamat, painting all over the infinite canvas.
Partnered, they woke in the darkness; partnered, they labored in acts of creation.
Now do this for the Encounters tool and Im all in!!! I cant handle that it has no formatting for encounters!!!
You're amazing for taking this on, as it's honestly embarrassing that DnDBeyond has not fixed this issue after years of requests. If I can do it with a simple pencil & paper, they should at least be able to do it with a computer.
Can you share the Chrome Extension you've created when ready? I'll put it to immediate use! Thanks for whatever you can do.
As far as suggestions, it would be great to have character sheet formatting options like:
StrikethroughGreat suggestions!
This gives me motivation to keep on developing. Thank you!
Check out my Browser Extension: BeyondMarkdown, which seamlessly converts markdown in character and encounter notes into beautifully formatted HTML, making note-taking more efficient and readable. GitHub, Chrome/Edge, Firefox
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this was something that was discussed internally and we wanted to do around 2 years ago, back when I was still working for Wizards.
I love what you've done there - nice work!
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You can already do some of that in the homebrewer system with <em></em> for italics, <strong></strong> for bold, and • as a bullet point. So if you’re homebrewing anything in DDB’s system, those will work in the snippet fields. I don’t know if that information will be helpful to you at all, but I figured I would let you know.
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Currently working on additional Sections. But here is the link to it: https://github.com/Orbytale/BeyondMarkdown. I haven't put it on the Chrome Web Store, yet.
Check out my Browser Extension: BeyondMarkdown, which seamlessly converts markdown in character and encounter notes into beautifully formatted HTML, making note-taking more efficient and readable. GitHub, Chrome/Edge, Firefox
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Currently it's turning h1(#) titles inside the OTHER-section into their own sections, and hides the OTHER-sections and adds corresponding tabs to it.
I'm still working on the interactivity, for editing those fields, since they are technically part of the OTHER-section.
Check out my Browser Extension: BeyondMarkdown, which seamlessly converts markdown in character and encounter notes into beautifully formatted HTML, making note-taking more efficient and readable. GitHub, Chrome/Edge, Firefox
Newest version now has Encounter Formatting.
Check out my Browser Extension: BeyondMarkdown, which seamlessly converts markdown in character and encounter notes into beautifully formatted HTML, making note-taking more efficient and readable. GitHub, Chrome/Edge, Firefox
How do I implement this?!?!?!!
Any chance of adding the ability to change the background color to " PHB vanilla"? lol.....JK
I found the install instructions...but no Firefox :(
Good point!
version 0.3.0 now has Firefox support!
I've also removed the settings. So it just works, without any special tags to add to the notes. This also helps with getting to the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-Ons pages, and make the extension official!
Check out my Browser Extension: BeyondMarkdown, which seamlessly converts markdown in character and encounter notes into beautifully formatted HTML, making note-taking more efficient and readable. GitHub, Chrome/Edge, Firefox
YES!!!!!!!
Hey Laird_Denton,
what exactly do you mean by "notes into the "Extras" tab"? What was the exact thing you wanted to do?
There is already a way to add notes to the creatures in there, like for spells, actions, items, etc. via the Customize option.
Check out my Browser Extension: BeyondMarkdown, which seamlessly converts markdown in character and encounter notes into beautifully formatted HTML, making note-taking more efficient and readable. GitHub, Chrome/Edge, Firefox
With the use of ShowdownJS, the following formatting is possible out-of-the-box:
If there is more need for stuff like underline, font-family, alignment and text color, I will look deeper into it.
Right now I'm fixing the issue that the numbered list elements aren't shown properly.
Regarding list-element-style options: I will look into it, but it's not of a high priority currently.
Check out my Browser Extension: BeyondMarkdown, which seamlessly converts markdown in character and encounter notes into beautifully formatted HTML, making note-taking more efficient and readable. GitHub, Chrome/Edge, Firefox
Greetings Orbytale,
An example...
I'd like to add a note about my living shadow (a reminder for myself) as I am cursed with a Dark Gift and want an easy location to reference some basic notes, etc.
Dark Gifts cannot be added to a character in DDB yet, so a place to put some info like that is helpful.
Breathe, dragons; sing of the First World, forged out of chaos and painted with beauty.
Sing of Bahamut, the Platinum, molding the shape of the mountains and rivers;
Sing too of Chromatic Tiamat, painting all over the infinite canvas.
Partnered, they woke in the darkness; partnered, they labored in acts of creation.