Infographic

Turn a campaign arc into an infographic

A single-page visual summary of an arc: who mattered, what changed, what is still open.

By Greg H. & Greg W., co-founders of Archivist

July 30, 2026 • 5 minutes

Works in:

Claude
NotebookLM

Twenty sessions in, new players have no idea who the duke is or why the party hates him. One image fixes that faster than a wall of recap text.

How it worksOne prompt · Claude Desktop

Let your assistant do all of it

With Archivist and NotebookLM both connected, one prompt gathers the arc and renders the layout.

Install both connections

Archivist Nexus installs the Archivist MCP and a NotebookLM companion into Claude Desktop in one pass. Select NotebookLM during setup.

Paste this prompt

It stops twice: once for the campaign, once for the session range. Then it pulls the arc with list-beats-tool and the compendium tools.

Connected prompt

Use the Archivist MCP and NotebookLM together to make an infographic for a campaign arc.

1. Call list-campaigns-tool and ask which campaign. Then call list-sessions-tool and ask which session range. Wait for my answers.
2. For that range, call get-session-tool and list-beats-tool per session, plus list-characters-tool, list-factions-tool, list-locations-tool, and list-quests-tool.
3. In NotebookLM, create an Infographic covering the beat timeline, key players (PCs, NPCs, factions), locations, what changed, and what is still open.

Use only what is in my campaign data. Prefer clarity over density — if there is too much, cover the most consequential and tell me what you left out.

Post it for the party

Export the image from NotebookLM and share it before your next session.

Keep it readable

Infographics fail by including everything. The prompt tells the model to prefer the consequential and say what it dropped, so you can judge the cut instead of discovering it at the table.

Questions

How wide an arc works best?

Five to ten sessions. One session rarely has enough shape to be worth a visual, and thirty produces something too dense to read. For more, do one infographic per arc.

Does this work in ChatGPT?

Not for the infographic step. NotebookLM has no official ChatGPT app, so this recipe is built around Claude Desktop with the Nexus NotebookLM companion. ChatGPT can still read your Archivist campaign for the other recipes.

Is the NotebookLM connection official?

No. Google does not publish a NotebookLM MCP server. Nexus bundles a community CLI (jacob-bd/notebooklm-mcp-cli, MIT licensed) that supports audio overviews, infographics, and notebooks. Expect occasional breakage. If it does, ask your assistant to output the timeline and key players as markdown instead and paste that into NotebookLM by hand.

What if it gets a detail wrong?

Ask for a fix in the same conversation and regenerate. Layout tools compress aggressively, so check names and dates before posting.

Is there something like this inside Archivist?

Yes, and it may be what you want. Data Studio renders an interactive relationship map of characters, items, locations, factions, and timeline events. This recipe is for a flat image you can hand to players.

Every recipe needs campaign data

Archivist turns your Discord sessions, audio, transcripts, or notes into the record these prompts read from.

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