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DMs of 3.5 on roll 20, how do you input your materials?

[this forum is the closest one i could find to the subject] so ive been playing 5e for years, eyeing 3.5 longingly from across the room and even porting content from it and AD&D to 5e on occasion (mostly reviving shadow magic) and the time has finally come. i am DMing a series of 1 shots with my group and ive run into quite the wall of empty text boxes to manually. fill. out. one. by. one. for. every. monster. npc. and. item... how do you all do it?  am i already doing it?  is there some site somewhere that will let me copy/paste entire sheets worth of data in seconds into roll 20?  do you just keep multiple windows/physical books open and prepare dummy sheets with the roll macros rigged up?  i just cant find any answers that arent "play pathfinder scrub!" or "it's hopeless"  to those pathfinder people i say the following:  toril, the forgotten realms cosmology, and the world presence the specific spells, mechanics, and items of 3.5 have with their setting is the whole reason im here. i can hack pathfinder apart and stitch forgotten realms into the gaps but that is an undertaking akin to the one i am already tackling in complexity and i want my spellfire, illusions as manifestations of partial reality, shadow material/protomatter interactions, spell jamming, and actual class content that comes with flavor text that ties into the setting of the system so well that my players invest in the factions and events spoken of in that flavor text that has been elaborated upon for the last 50 years.  ill consider hacking it apart to stitch my own setting into later but right now im running and have thousands of hours of wikidiving behind the forgotten realms.
Oh boy talk about opening a can of worms for me :) Compendium I've been building my own compendium for the past year and its quite extensive as well as a bit of a nuisance, however the game has been transformed for me dramatically since it started as it's now very quick. First things first I’ve been creating my own compendium by adding simple hand-outs Since we are homebrewing campaigns, I save everything into my ‘’Master Campaign’’ and then adding them on any new ones we made or will make. Rules: The easiest and faster way to deal with rules and clarifications is by using the The Hypertext d20 SRD - the ultimate d20 system reference which is amazing and easy to use. However, I have developed my own reference documents in simple word files which have proven invaluable. This is one of 15 i have Treasure. The The Hypertext d20 SRD - the ultimate d20 system reference has random treasure generator tool perfectly tailored for 3.5, but what I am doing mostly is copying pasting any interesting Magic Items I found reading the 25 books I have for 3.5 into another Word document called Treasure with descriptions. Monsters I have created over 100 individual monsters including NPCs using the endless 3.5 material from Monster Handbook I, III,IV,V, Monsters of Faerun, Frostburn, Manual of the Planes the list goes on. Roll20 provides a character sheet for PCs and NPCs and a separate one of Monsters. However, the Monsters one is very limited and cannot be used in line with various API Scripts I am using that make my life easier. I have instead used the player character sheet to create monsters and manually created macros of ALL their skills, spells, magic items with audio sounds. They resemble that of Roll20 5e monsters once you use TokenActions API. I include a Macro that gives me a simple overview of all their special skills, qualities, description, Challenge rating, Combat strategy and etc to be ready for when used. Maps: I use Dungeondraft and DungeonAlchemist to create my own maps, as well as (of course) googling and browsing thousands of ready maps.   Spells and Magic Every time a player or a NPC/Monster acquires new spell or when I create a new sheet, I will manually create Macros for all their spells. Once I do that, I save them into an excel so I can use them whenever needed.   Summons I have manually created Monsters using Character Sheets to represent individual summons of various levels. They are identical to my other monsters except that I have given permissions to players with summoning spells to drag them into the map and use their Macros. Obviously not the ready-made material you were asking for but I thought I can put in my 2 cents.
well hot damn, this is sort of the road i was headed down as is thought mine is much more txt documents and hand drawn with the pen tool level crusty it seems that the day has come and ill have to **shudder** build spread sheets and i guess scrape up enough cash for pro to fit all of this in my data limit  thanks viggo