Currently it's really hard to know wether or not to avoid a portal that leads to somewhere useless for you in current game, I think having the quest monster clickable, and then leading to the bestiary entry with spawn locations would be amazing
#QoL idea: add a monster directory for quests
blazing ferry
raven notch
If you open the Portal menu, it shows you which monsters are available in each dimension.
... which I'm now realizing you might not have unlocked yet.
blazing ferry
I have twice, it would be nicer to have a directory though
Especially before you have dominion
raven notch
Okay, so I'm trying to imagine this:
you open the portal, random dimension right?
blazing ferry
Yea
raven notch
are you proposing being able to check the book and double-check whether or not a monster that you've already discovered is in the dimension that you're about to walk into before the character just waltzes in
blazing ferry
Yeah
raven notch
okey doke
just checking
raven notch
I personally don't think there'd be enough time to open the book, get to the page, check the monsters / quests, close all that and decide to not interact with the portal in time
edit: as opposed to looking up where the monster lives beforehand and quickly deciding "is that one of the 1-3 possible dimensions where it lives?"
blazing ferry
Pause of movement?
raven notch
how?
aside from dragon egg, the ascendant just keeps truckin'
blazing ferry
Beginning of special stages
raven notch
you got me there 
austere socket
You can just read the book before activating a portal, ignoring if it is a portal you don’t know, but considering this could be a bestiary function you would have seen all portals already