# Amount of .txt files proving to be overwhelming? **URL:** \ **Category:** ChoiceScript Help\ **Created:** [March 30, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/amount-of-txt-files-proving-to-be-overwhelming/54541 "2019-03-30T20:57:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jay\_M\_Profio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/jay_m_profio/32/28360_2.png) [@Jay\_M\_Profio](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Jay_M_Profio)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/amount-of-txt-files-proving-to-be-overwhelming/54541/1 "2019-03-30T20:57:17Z")
I’m having trouble with the sheer amount of .txt files I’m having to work on with my game. I want the variables to branch the way they are, and the plot is progressing how I want, but every time I work on it I have to open up a million files on my computer and I was wondering if there was an easier way to view everything. I tried Chronicler, and it keeps crashing on my laptop. The only suggestion I can find is to copy every single scene into Twine bit by bit, which is time consuming/overwhelming and I’d have to individually add every scene as I wrote it. I was just wondering if there’s any software out there that could just display all the .txt files in a way that’s more manageable. I’m writing it one path at a time, and a single path of choices is already 36 scenes; I’m just keeping all the files open as I work, and it’s frustrating and overwhelming. ---
**Author:** ![Gower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/gower/32/21972_2.png) [@Gower](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Gower)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/amount-of-txt-files-proving-to-be-overwhelming/54541/2 "2019-03-30T21:00:34Z")
You don’t have to make a different .txt file for each choice; you can have multiple choices in a single file. Are you creating new files for each decision? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Lady\_Luck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/the_lady_luck/32/212891_2.png) [@The\_Lady\_Luck](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/The_Lady_Luck)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/amount-of-txt-files-proving-to-be-overwhelming/54541/3 "2019-03-30T21:08:26Z")
Also, if you’re not using CSIDE already, I’d highly recommend it. ---
**Author:** ![Gabs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/gabs/32/73930_2.png) [@Gabs](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Gabs)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 9:14pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/amount-of-txt-files-proving-to-be-overwhelming/54541/4 "2019-03-30T21:14:25Z")
How are you opening your text files currently? If you don’t want to use an interface like CSIDE, Notepad++ lets you open files in tabs (rather than different windows), which may be more manageable? (It also lets you search/replace in all .txt files in a directory, which is definitely a function I’ve found useful.) ---
**Author:** ![MeltingPenguins](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/meltingpenguins/32/255855_2.png) [@MeltingPenguins](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/MeltingPenguins)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/amount-of-txt-files-proving-to-be-overwhelming/54541/5 "2019-03-30T21:15:34Z")
I think we should add this to a FAQ/common beginner’s mistakes list: By the sound of it you have each choice end in a finish and thus go to a new file, right? You don’t need to do that. There are \*goto and \*label and \*fake\_choice and \*gosub. But as said, it’s something a lot of people stumbled over ---
**Author:** ![Jay\_M\_Profio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/jay_m_profio/32/28360_2.png) [@Jay\_M\_Profio](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Jay_M_Profio)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 10:24pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/amount-of-txt-files-proving-to-be-overwhelming/54541/6 "2019-03-30T22:24:06Z")
I’ve been using choices ending in \*goto commands where each choice goes to a different scene. Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how would I do this without making it go to a new file? The story involves someone walking around a house, so a lot of the choices are the rooms he’s exploring and the location changes with each one. ---
**Author:** ![CopperCaravan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/coppercaravan/32/62585_2.png) [@CopperCaravan](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/CopperCaravan)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 10:27pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/amount-of-txt-files-proving-to-be-overwhelming/54541/7 "2019-03-30T22:27:52Z")
Use \*label Then you have something like this: ``` *choice #Thing A *goto thing_a #Thing B *goto thing_b *label thing_a TEXT TEXT TEXT *goto next_scene *label thing_b TEXT TEXT TEXT *goto next_scene ``` And it can all be in the same file. ---
**Author:** ![MeltingPenguins](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/meltingpenguins/32/255855_2.png) [@MeltingPenguins](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/MeltingPenguins)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 10:29pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/amount-of-txt-files-proving-to-be-overwhelming/54541/8 "2019-03-30T22:29:02Z")
One way here would be \*hide\_reuse and \*disable\_reuse to make sure people only go to each bit once. Like: ``` *label thing0 *choice *disable_reuse #thing 1 *goto thing1 *disable_reuse #thing 2 *goto thing2 *label thing1 Stuff *goto thing0 *label thing2 Stuff *goto thing0 ``` ---
**Author:** ![Jay\_M\_Profio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/jay_m_profio/32/28360_2.png) [@Jay\_M\_Profio](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Jay_M_Profio)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 10:29pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/amount-of-txt-files-proving-to-be-overwhelming/54541/9 "2019-03-30T22:29:04Z")
Ooohhhh I see now. Thanks so much this will make my files so much easier to navigate ---
**Author:** ![CopperCaravan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/coppercaravan/32/62585_2.png) [@CopperCaravan](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/CopperCaravan)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/amount-of-txt-files-proving-to-be-overwhelming/54541/10 "2019-03-30T22:30:48Z")
I also tend to make a tiny index at the top of mine with \*comment, so like at the very top of each file I have a few lines like \*comment Important Thing line 23 \*comment Different Thing line 68 \*comment Branch One line 112 etc, etc. That just helps me keep up if they start to get long/branchy. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/original/3X/e/f/efe1497a762edecdb6d569a1c4abee87508bf002.png) [@system](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 12:25am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/amount-of-txt-files-proving-to-be-overwhelming/54541/11 "2019-04-05T00:25:23Z")
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