QoL tools for playing PbP


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Hello everyone.

I'm hopefully going to play a PbP campaign here on the forum. I've already installed the Paizo Campaign Tools extension for Chrome, but I need something to get some sort of notification when someone posts on a thread I'm following. I've tried a couple of RSS readers (Feeder and Feedly), but their notifications come way too late (between 1 and 2 hours late). Is there some sort of efficient way to get almost-real-time notifications from the forums? And are there any other "quality of life" extensions/apps/programs I could use to enhance my PbP experience?

Thank you in advance for your answers.


Most RSS readers offer the option to set the refresh time (or "polling") to a user-defined time.
I think they go down to a few minutes (maybe 10?).

For other.... what are you looking for?
And: are you mostly on desktop or on a mobile?
For mobile QoL toolchain (for typing up posts with stored macros for stuff like attacks, saves, talking, etc) I typed up this a while ago.


The Ghost of War wrote:

Most RSS readers offer the option to set the refresh time (or "polling") to a user-defined time.

I think they go down to a few minutes (maybe 10?).

The two readers I've tried had that option only for paid users. Even if I'm going to become a hevay PbP player I don't feel very comfortable paying $5.99 just to get notifications in a decent time span.

The Ghost of War wrote:
For other.... what are you looking for?

I was looking for suggestions about QoL utilities, things you guys know are useful for first-time PbP players. Maybe something to help formatting messages on desktop?

The Ghost of War wrote:

And: are you mostly on desktop or on a mobile?

For mobile QoL toolchain (for typing up posts with stored macros for stuff like attacks, saves, talking, etc) I typed up this a while ago.

I will be posting mainly on desktop, but may have to use my smartphone from time to time. I've read your post and marked as favorite, will check those two apps soon.


You can try FeedBro. Thats an Firefox addon, to get&manage RSS feeds.
IIRC it had a lot of options including polling (going down to 5 min I think).

As for PC posting, I am currently looking at Sublime Text a very advanced text editor that includes snippets and autocompletion features.
I think I can do something very similar to the appraoch used for my mobile posting with it.
Once I get settled with it (and find some time), I'll likely make another post like the other one, but for PCs this time.


The Ghost of War wrote:

You can try FeedBro. Thats an Firefox addon, to get&manage RSS feeds.

IIRC it had a lot of options including polling (going down to 5 min I think).

Yes, this is what I was looking for. Thank you.

The Ghost of War wrote:
As for PC posting, I am currently looking at Sublime Text a very advanced text editor that includes snippets and autocompletion features.

I'm going to check it out asap, thank you.


Found the time to type something up.


Thank you for letting me know!

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