A way to add a permanent note or reminder for the GM only on the main screen

I'm about to start DMing my first ever online game in a couple of days. I was wondering if there is a way for me to add a little note or reminder for myself that would always be in the corner of the screen or something. I want to put my players' passive perception and passive insight up so I can reference them immediately without having to go search around for their character sheet. I know I could put it on the GM overlay but that's only on one page at a time and I'd like to make it permanent across all pages if it's possible. Thank you!

I can't think of a way to make a memo, but I use two ways to get to frequently accessed information. One is to write a macro that will whisper it to you in chat when you click on the macro button. You can make the button visible in your macro bar only, or available to both you and players if that's desirable.  That's a one-click method, but takes up space in the chat. The other way is to make two handouts. One has the information you want to access, and the other is a quick-reference macro. If I have a handout labeled "Item Saving Throws" (which I do) and I want to be able to access it easily, I type [Item Saving Throws], with square brackets as you see, into the quick-reference handout, and save it. I can then archive the Item Saving Throws handout. When I want to see it, I open the quick-reference handout and click on the link that was created from the square brackets, and the archived handout opens. You can have multiple links on the quick-reference handout, to create a library of the information you want to get at with two clicks. Just keep that quick-reference one at the top of the journal tab.

I use a macro bar macro for that, just pop the macro, it whispers to me their passives. 

You also could use the bubbles of a token. I use bar 3 value for passive perception, so when i select a character it always shows it on the token bubble.

Wouldn't the issue be though as their passive senses go up, your macro is out of date? I've had a similar issue and just said fuck it.

William P said: Wouldn't the issue be though as their passive senses go up, your macro is out of date? I've had a similar issue and just said fuck it. Not at all, it calls their stats. It is always current. example: /w GM test's passive perception: [[10+@{test|wisdom_mod}+@{test|pb}]]

EDIT - ninja'd! Though note that using passive_wisdom will include if the PC has the Observant feat. With the formula method you'd need to manually add 5 to the formula. Assuming the 5e by Roll20 sheet, you can just reference the passive_wisdom attribute so the macro stays up to date. Here's what I use for my group for PP: /w GM &{template:default} {{name=Group Passive Perception}} {{Zephyra=[[@{Zephyra|passive_wisdom}]]}} {{Raylin=[[@{Raylin|passive_wisdom}]] **(Observant)** }} {{Vile=[[@{Vile|passive_wisdom}]] }} {{Khaurus=[[@{Khaurus|passive_wisdom}]]}} {{Kaerwyn=[[@{Kaerwyn Silver|passive_wisdom}]]}} {{Thad=[[@{Thaedon Quartzeye|passive_wisdom}]]}} This should be valid for PC sheets. Note that for NPC sheets, passive_wisdom is often incorrect. IIRC it depends if the npc is proficient in perception or not.

David M. said: EDIT - ninja'd! Though note that using passive_wisdom will include if the PC has the Observant feat. With the formula method you'd need to manually add 5 to the formula. Assuming the 5e by Roll20 sheet, you can just reference the passive_wisdom attribute so the macro stays up to date. Here's what I use for my group for PP: /w GM &{template:default} {{name=Group Passive Perception}} {{Zephyra=[[@{Zephyra|passive_wisdom}]]}} {{Raylin=[[@{Raylin|passive_wisdom}]] **(Observant)** }} {{Vile=[[@{Vile|passive_wisdom}]] }} {{Khaurus=[[@{Khaurus|passive_wisdom}]]}} {{Kaerwyn=[[@{Kaerwyn Silver|passive_wisdom}]]}} {{Thad=[[@{Thaedon Quartzeye|passive_wisdom}]]}} This should be valid for PC sheets. Note that for NPC sheets, passive_wisdom is often incorrect. IIRC it depends if the npc is proficient in perception or not. True, I just wrote that off the cuff. The point being, you can pull the information from places. :)

Gauss said: William P said: Wouldn't the issue be though as their passive senses go up, your macro is out of date? I've had a similar issue and just said fuck it. Not at all, it calls their stats. It is always current. example: /w GM test's passive perception: [[10+@{test|wisdom_mod}+@{test|pb}]] I'm late but holy shit dude you are the best. Now I can just secretly use my macro of "[[@{PC name|passive-perception}]]" and it'll tell me passive senses without having to ask.