Advice/Help Preferred worldbuilding tools?

[MrMuffin]

I’ve been developing this universe and its lore, but all of it has been stored on a Notes application. I’ve been considering using tools like WorldAnvil and Kanka to store info there (since they offer more options and features), but I find using those programs daunting. Which ones do you like to use/recommend?

 

[AaronMk]

I just use Open Office and Photoshop

 

[Bacon is fluffy]

I’ve been developing this universe and its lore, but all of it has been stored on a Notes application. I’ve been considering using tools like WorldAnvil and Kanka to store info there (since they offer more options and features), but I find using those programs daunting. Which ones do you like to use/recommend?

I find the interactive map tool in world anvil more convenient than learning gimp or photoshop. In some ways it's real neat, but the main thing is whether your players want to use it. If they don't, its made purely for yourself and no one else.

 

[xuanan]

I've used Kanka and WorldAnvil but have found them to be somewhat inconvenient, even though I liked the linking features to other articles. It's a bit of a nuisance to set up information sometimes, and using those sites encouraged me to fill my world with some useless info because there were a lot of optional categories that I just couldn't skim past, lol. Now I just use Google Docs and use the "building blocks" function and use linking and bookmarking to collect the information. It's nice to ctrl+F to find info I'm looking for straight away too, in one doc, and I can just pull it up whenever I have an idea on my phone or my laptop.

 

[Idea]

I generally do my world building on google docs or whatever I have on hand at the time be it my phone, a notebook, a piece of paper… Just jotting down the random ideas. Google docs is generally what I use for my structured stuff unless I’m world building for something more specific to share quickly, in which case there’s a good chance that I’m making a channel on a discord server or using whatever space I was asked to if I’m in another person’s roleplay.

I did use worldanvil for a bit and I might go back to it sometime though I kinda watched it seemingly get more and more wrapped up in monetization and seemingly shifting features over to packages outside of the standard free package? I could be mistaken I’ve only briefly been there outside of that early period in which I used it.

Other tools are available but I suppose they depend on more specific needs. I seldom need to make a map, Inkarnate was my go to.