Notion or Obsidian anyone? · Game Master's Laboratory

Notion or Obsidian anyone?

I have been using Notion off and on for several years to keep up with my GM notes, session prep, etc. Partly based on Sly Flourish's Lazy DM templates. It has been very handy to have all of this in one place, but sometimes it can be over-complicated.

I have more recently been using Obsidian to do this same thing as I also use Obsidian in my daily life for work and personal projects. Again, I have just transmongrified the Lazy GM templates from Notion to work in Obsidian.

Everything was going great until I ran across this little book about Proactive Roleplaying that has upended all of my thought processes about how I both prep and run my games.

I was wondering if:

anyone here has experience with either of these systems in terms of Proactive Roleplaying. Would love to hear your usage on either. (Please no "X is better than Y" discussions. I deal with that enough already and have come to determine that each system works for each person for different reasons, and that is ok.)
for either one of these, how would you set up goal tracking, faction tracking, session planning, etc. I have some ideas, but we are far better as a hive mind, right?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Jay

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