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Help needed with journal organising on Storm King's Thunder (especially in battles)

Hello everyone! Sorry in advance if this is already answered, I spent the better part of an hour searching for an answer and couldn't find one. Moved our f2f Storm Kings Thunder to roll20 to practice social distancing because of the pandemic. The module is fantastic but I have the following issue. Due to the module journal having all the module info it is very hard for me to manage battles. When I copy a token from the token sheet it doesn't seem to copy the token into the journal. Also even with preexisting tokens it is a pain to roll up and down the whole journal to access them during combat. I have set up some macros to get most of the info I need through token macros (stat, saves, actions) but I still need the odd look on the stat block and I do not seem to be able to access it through the token itself. Also although its token has the stat block integrated I can't seem to access it through settings. I know that you can archive big chunks of the module but that doesn't help either since the monster stat blocks are on a drop down menu with all of them in alphabetical order. Is there a way to set a separate entry for battles in the journal and drop in all the combatants? Do you have another way to organize battles? I would very much appreciate you help.
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Spren
Sheet Author
Can't help with organizing, but I can let you know that you can access a token's character sheet from the token by holding ALT and double clicking it. So no need to go digging through the journal. That will probably save you the most time. What I tend to do is open the sheets for all the monsters before combat that way, then pop them out to their own windows that I put on a second monitor.
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I just use macro buttons for the characters.  I almost never have to open their sheet.  I have a statblock button that has clickables for all their abilities and I also run the action api to make buttons for all their actions.  **my bad, I just saw you are a plus user** so the api stuff does not work for you.  You should be able to have macro buttons still though.
The ALT button plus double left click was very useful tip. It actually helps me very much
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keithcurtis
Forum Champion
Marketplace Creator
API Scripter
If you would prefer not to have them open in different windows, you can also double click the header of any open sheet or journal and it will collapse into a transparent minified button on screen. Double click again to expand.