How to you store your DM notes?

>>54042300
In one physical folder for one of my games, in a digital folder for the other.

In a note book?
If you dont live with the pc's keeping notes secret should be simple.
And if your pc's are adults even living with them it should be easy.......adults dont raid each others rooms

>>54042300
OP sharing autism: Scrivener for setting + Excel for large tables and formulas + Sublime Text for 'overall' blog-like notes

Index cards, index cards, index cards.

I keep EVERYTHING short of dungeon maps on index cards. My setting maps are tiled compilations of index cards, that way I can start a world then expand it as the PCs explore it. All my NPC stats are on index cards. I love index cards. I run my characters off of them. Don't need to print a char sheet for me, no sir. I'm running a level 15 dwarf fighter in 3.5 off of one index card plus 3 more for posessions in various locations, and a level 10 wizard off of two (one for stats one for spell list). They cost like a penny each, less if you get them on sale. I always have a few with me if I want to work on D&D shit. Those little boxes are cheap as fuck, too. I love buying cheap index cards and cheap boxes at the dollar store or staples and putting 5 in cash and having all my gaming supplies all set. I have a printer but I barely use it.

>>54042300

An accordion folder for my blank forms. 2 binders: one for maps and one for printouts/full-page notes. Everything else on index cards in a dozen plastic boxes. 1 box per campaign and one campaign per box except there's a box that's used in every 5e campaign in addition to that campaign's box.

The single greatest program available for a Windows computer:
Notepad.

Once that gets too large, I move to a Word document and set up a table of contents.
In-game notes I keep in one of those small pads psychiatrists have in cartoons.

>>54042300
I use google docs for everything
Text for planning, notes, descriptions
Images i need i upload directly
Spreadsheets for party inventory, stats, etc
The only thing I dont keep track with google docs is encounter shit because i find it easier with pen and paper because you can cross shit without having to reestructure stuff

>>54042300
In a safe, with boobytraps to set it all on fire if the safe is tampered with.

I manage mine poorly. A big part of my notes are scrawled on backs of envelopes, some are stored in text files, with a couple only on roll20.

>>54042300
>DM
I don't run shit games.

>>54042300
A binder.
It's basically in code too since most of it is my custom chicken-scratch cursive in a combination of long and short hand.

Depends, all my fantasy stuff goes on paper, dungeon maps and shit.

All the used character sheets go in this huge folder labelled "The Graveyard" anything else I trust my players to look after.

Any other setting stuff is all typed up on a relevent sub folder on Evernote.

I have two folders set up on my Google Drive: a public folder where everyone has access to things like the rulebooks and their character sheets and a GM folder which has all my notes etc.