[Third+Final Prompt] Where do you organize your worldbuilding?
[Third+Final Prompt] Where do you organize your worldbuilding?
I used to use obsidian but I found myself lacking motivation and becoming easily distracted when looking at the computer. Now, I do everything in a notebook. I find that my thoughts just flow far easier.
Bold of you to assume I'm organized.
But for real I usually keep it in text docs and try to gather what I have from there, sometimes retriving stuff me and a friend did from old discord servers. I'm actually planning to make a full blown wiki for this stuff so others can browse through it, though progress on that has been absurdly slow.
Hey, I'm not any better. At some point I'll make a wiki for my world but right now, I don't see any reason to.
I write rough drafts and ideas in a notebook and I solidify and organize them with Google docs
Hey that's me! I used to solely use google docs, but I found the edits were piling up. Now I mainly write in a notebook and transfer over the ideas that have stuck after a few days
Yeah for me Google docs is more about organizing my ideas rather than being what I write with.
I like that workflow, it's similar to mine. I typically take bullet point ideas on one page and then write a "wiki article" on another.
I used to write on basically any piece of paper that would come my way, up to and including stuff that I should really have kept clean. Stupid amounts of halfway filled notebooks, bills and receits, work memos and sometimes even important docs wrong face up on the desk... Never the proverbial napkin though (pen goes right through that crap). After ending up with huge folders that ate too much space and basically made it impossible to find my way through stuff I got an e-ink tablet. Now it's just as much of a mess but I can at least cary it around and I don't have to worry about some kind of work related stuff randomly having alien morphology specs on it. When I'm in good spirits, like most people here it seems, I will try to make sense out of it and put it on an organized Word file.
I love the idea of an e-ink tablet for worldubuilding. What model/brand do you have?
I use a Remarkable 2. It's a bit pricey, especially when factoring in the cost of the stylus and the keyboard-case accessory. However, for my use which includes taking meeting memos at work on top of my worldbuilding, it's actually very well suited. I wouldn't have gotten it just as a hobby device I think. The battery is great, stylus is very close to a paper feel though the tips gets blunt rather quickly... Aaand I'm starting to sound like I'm trying to sell it. Tbh the software is very minimalistic so there are probably more versatile options out there, but for the purpose of having basically a blank page at hand whenever required, I must say that it's nailing it totally.
I keep it all in a notebook, though that was mainly so I could bring it to school and worldbuild at school (we aren't allowed to use our phones during class here). Not sure if I'll switch to digital now that I've graduated and that isn't a concern.