The wiki app that I used for worldbuilding for the past three years has been taken off the App Store. All of my notes that I wrote on it were backed up to my dropbox, but now I can’t use the wiki format the app offered. As a sperg who grew up browsing wookiepedia and the bionicle wiki, that was always my preferred note keeping format.
What do you use to keep track of your thoughts and stories? PC or IOS would be ideal, preferably IOS so that I can write stuff down whenever I have a few minutes to myself at work. Some sort of cloud backup/Dropbox connection would be amazing too.
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Your fault for using non-FOSS software, dipshit. What kind of tech illiterate trusts anything from the App Store?
Me
Obsidian is what I use.
Thanks, I’m looking into it right now and it seems perfect for what I need
I looked through a lot of sites/programs but ultimately just settled on Google sites. It has the basic framework/functionality of most other sites, is free, and has little to no risk of losing your data.
https://sites.google.com/view/vanguardrpg/home
Also I should note that the primary purpose is to reference at the table, where I have a TV connected to a laptop and can bring up information on a given topic, and most often that when the players are talking to an NPC, I can bring up a picture of them for easy reference. tbh it has helped significantly with them remembering who the numerous characters are.
An anon here has been working on a free world-building software for a while. I don't usually give out suggestions but his passion for it deserves it.
https://nebulousinteractive.itch.io/nebulous
Thank you but for now I’m going to go with this anon’s
advice. I can actually just past the text that Dropbox saved from the old app into obsidian and it formats out the same. What a lifesaver
I originally posted
. If you're going with Obsidian and already have Dropbox or similar cloud storage, put your Obsidian notebook into the cloud as well. You'll have an easier time jumping between devices to work on your world.
I use OneNote. Microisraelite gives it out freely, it syncs across all devices and you can share notebooks with players and THEY can edit it to.
When I run games, I make my notetaker put/take notes in OneNote so I can see what the players are keeping as official records.
So, what, you have them type it all up when they get home from session? Seems a bit much.
homie just use a windows notepad for everything it is eternal and you can copy+paste it to wiki later.
I just have a good imagination, memory and experience.
Its your own fault mate.
Manage your own files.
>What do you use to keep track of your thoughts and stories?
A notebook.
what's even the point of using a specialized application for "worldbuilding"? sounds like masturbatory behavior if you ask me, like people who think they need a gaming chair for anything other than showing off.
If you're actually into the hobby of world-building, it makes it much easier to keep track of interconnected details.
It’s just easier than keeping a notebook
Someone make an Emacs app already
>doing an entire 3+ year project in a goddamn phone with no backups
>wants to do it again
You are so stupid
>As a sperg who grew up browsing wookiepedia and the bionicle wiki, that was always my preferred note keeping format.
My dude, do you need some tech support? Download the goddamn SDK, find a pirate edition of the app, and recover your shit
It’s really ok, the app was connected to my Dropbox. Everything saved as text files and it took only a few hours to copy all of it onto Obsidian
emacs in org mode.
Unexpectedly based
I have an extremely schizophrenic mess of folders and markdown files that I keep in a git repository backed up to my home server
Use tiddlywiki next time.
>What do you use to keep track of your thoughts and stories?
I don't, short of a TBC handout I edit after every session of play. Also most of my groups have someone who does fun doodles of events we find amusing.
As for worldbuilding, I generally make a personal document with timelines leading up to the game, important people and places, and other minuteae the players don't need to know but might learn later or during chargen, then make a copy and omit all but the bare essentials for chargen. Otherwise, most of my details lie in my brain, where they can't be stolen by bandai spies.
Then again, I'm a Game Master, not a writer, so it's none of my concern. Still, I've heard there's places like worldanvil and someone here suggested obsidian. If you want a wiki, there's ways to make your own for free online but you'd need a desktop browser to make them of it I'd reckon, and some general knowledge of style guides.
Then just go to the website
Sorry that happened bro, ignore all the dicks blaming you for wanting convenience over tech autism and constant vetting. It sucks a bag of dicks whenever you have to lose something you spent so much time invested into and its too niche for anyone but you to care.
I am always surrised that modern consumers don't understand this:
If you rent something, always keep in mind that it belongs to someone else and is never yours. It can be taken away at any time without your say so and you will lose it forever.
software as a service, stallman was right.
This
DO NOT use Obsidian
I use OneNote
Libreoffice Writer. It's free, can never be taken away from me and doesn't spy on everything I do with it. If you need to back your file up, just save a copy on another drive or email it to yourself.
Nebulous
https://nebulousinteractive.itch.io/nebulous
It's free and pretty good.
It always fricks with me to realize that the new generation doesn't write these things out by hand.
use wikimedia