I use a wiki (self hosted DokuWiki) to keep my current dnd campaign world organized. I create a page per NPC, region, settlement, event, faction, and such. I can cross link them together (which people are in which factions, which factions have relationships, which settlements they operate out of…). I find it helps me keep organized. Plus I can upload pictures or maps to add visuals.

I love pen and paper but find cross referencing less effective for me. So I’m not against writing down my ideas where ever (paper, phone, note on computer) and will transcribe to wiki later.

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.

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.

This is one my greatest hurdles. I was using obsidian for a while as well and had some success but had similar problems with motivation. I’ve liked Legend Keeper but dislike the pricing model. Currently I’m just disorganized and throwing ideas into the notes app on my phone which is far from ideal.

For the first two years all the world building happened on yellow office post-it notes. The organization was taking pictures of them and dumping them in a file on my desktop labeled “scifi thing”.

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.

For new projects I start with Google docs. If I remain interested in it, then I migrate it over to World Anvil

I use Joplin.

Currently I’m writing plain text files and sync them across devices with syncthing. Synchronizing is a chore though, because if I forgot to do it before writing chances are they will get conflicts

For the most part, I use plain text documents. Maybe cell sheets for some stuff.

I write rough drafts and ideas in a notebook and I solidify and organize them with Google docs