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Finish Implementing the External Journal Feature

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Good list, Ken, and I will just give you some information about a few of the points. The information doesn't change your Suggestion at all.  The OP was one of the inventors of Roll20, one of the original Dev Team, in fact one of the original 3 people who started Roll20. He was gone from the Dev Team for a while, and has been back for a year or longer. Journal Folders did not exist yet at the time of the OP. Journal Folders also did not exist at the time of the creation of the External Journal feature. That's why historically-speaking they are not included in External Journal. Of course I agree they should be included and I expect they will get included if/when Roll20 revisits this feature for an update. I also believe the OP's Suggestion would certainly include implementing folders.  The ability to create and edit Handouts in the External Journal, I believe is the central intent of the OP for this feature when he said 'finish it'. That's the big one. Since they did it already with Characters (Journals), I think they should be able to do this with Handouts (Journals). Ken S. said: I've somehow managed to be using Roll20 for over four years without discovering there was an external Journal, but having found it, I'm underwhelmed. As the OP (who now works for Roll20) noted 9 years ago it's "unfinished", 
Adding the folder structure found in the campaign would make it a lot easier to use the External Journal to read the books I’ve bought on Roll20 on my phone, especially the adventure modules. I just started running Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan in Tales from the Yawning Portal, and the only way to read the adventure outside of the game ahead of time (when I’m on my phone) is the External Journal, but there isn’t any good way to know which handouts to read in what order. i buy the adventures in Roll20 vs. DDB or physical to have the maps and tokens set up, which is fantastic, but reading the adventure is really, really hard. :-/  Adding the folder structure would help make that better.
+1 I use a tablet as my on the go computer and the game runs extremely slowly so its very hard to actually edit anyything while not at home.
The lack of folder structure in the External Journal has come up yet again as I try to read the Happy Jack’s Funhouse adventure (this month’s Reserve reward) on my phone while away from my computer. I have access to each handout, yes, but they’re listed alphabetically by title, making the order and structure of the adventure really unclear. :-/