What is Notecaster?

Ever felt lost in your D&D campaigns, scrambling to remember NPCs or how plot points relate to each other? 🗺️ I did! And then I had a wild idea: what if I could build a CRM from my campaign notes? 🤔

I sat on this idea for years and built a few different iterations, but the recent wave of AI technology has really allowed for some key features that bring the concept to life. I'm thrilled to introduce Notecaster! It transforms your raw game notes into a rich, relational database with minimal effort. Natural Language to Relational Database in one step.

Stay tuned! In my upcoming blog series, I'll talk about how Notecaster works and explore the fascinating parallels between this tool and the AI solutions revolutionizing businesses today.

Your Essential Companion for Narrative-Rich Games

Are you a Tabletop Role-Playing Game (TTRPG) player who finds yourself juggling scattered notes, forgetting NPC names, or wishing you could easily recall key plot points from sessions past? If so, Notecaster is designed specifically for you.

Notecaster is an application built to streamline and enhance how you manage information during and between your TTRPG sessions. Forget messy notebooks and scattered documents; Notecaster provides a dedicated space to keep track of everything that matters in your campaign world.



Organize Your Campaign World

At its core, Notecaster helps you bring structure to the chaos of a long-running game. You can:

  • Create Notebooks: Think of these as dedicated spaces for different campaigns or game systems.
  • Manage Folders and Notes: Within each notebook, organize your session notes, campaign lore, or character backstories in a familiar folder structure. This makes finding that crucial piece of information quick and painless.
  • Create Notes However You Like: Write notes directly into the notepad or import your handwritten notes or session recordings. This means no matter how you take notes, you can power them up with Notecaster.

Keep Track of What (and Who) Matters: Notables

One of the biggest challenges in TTRPGs is remembering all the people, places, items, and clues you encounter. Notecaster's "Notable" system is built to solve this:

  • Define Custom Types: Create your own categories for tracking (e.g., Characters, Locations, Factions, Magic Items, Mysteries).
  • Track Specific Entities: Easily create entries for every significant NPC, dungeon, artifact, or clue you discover. Keep all their relevant details in one place.
  • Quick Reference: Access details about your Notables quickly, even popping them out into resizable windows so you can keep key information visible while you're writing notes or in the middle of a session.

Leverage AI to Enhance Your Notes

Notecaster integrates intelligent tools to help you get the most out of your session recordings and notes:

  • Audio Imports: Have session recordings? Upload them and let the AI generate your game notes. These are not simple transcriptions – Notecaster will cut through any table talk, walkbacks, inside jokes, and more, creating simple, comprehensive notes about what happened in your game session.
  • AI Analysis: Point the AI at your notes, and it can help you identify and link existing Notables mentioned, or even create new ones based on the text. This helps ensure you don't miss important connections and keeps your Notable list up-to-date effortlessly.
  • AI Chat Assistant: Get help brainstorming ideas, summarizing session highlights, or retrieving specific information from your notes by chatting with the integrated AI. Then use those conversations to create new notes, such as a rules quick reference for something you keep having to look up.

Designed for Players

Notecaster is built with the player experience in mind. It's responsive, adapting to different screen sizes, and offers intuitive ways to manage your information, like drag-and-drop reordering for your folders and notable types. Features like audio transcription are specifically included to address common player needs and pain points in the TTRPG note-taking process.

In short, Notecaster is your digital sidekick for TTRPGs, helping you stay organized, keep track of your world's details, and use smart tools to make note-taking less of a chore and more of a powerful part of your gaming experience.

Ready to enhance your TTRPG notes? Give Notecaster a try!

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