Keeping it all organized

[Raptori]

For high level concepts (i.e. rough initial notes for stuff like how civilisations work) I'm going to try Free Mind, which is supposed to be quite good for mind maps. The text/word docs I've got are basically a load of bullet points - this program should make it easy to organise those in a hierarchy (which can be collapsed/expanded at will). It'll be interesting to see how well it works

its generally google drive for me now, though I keep various backups. I love google drive because i can access it from any device and can edit things online. all changes are instantly saved and become immediately available on any other devices (mobile, tablet, laptop, pc). this is something i find invaluable.

Other than that i have a gigantic hyperlinked .doc file (600,000+ words) that's indexed and alphabetised like an encyclopaedia. Every thing new i add to the world i include here.

of course things like notes, ideas and things that aret polished go in their own documents generally divided in things like 'place ideas', 'object ideas', character ides', 'history ideas', 'map ideas', etc. and those are the things that go into the google drive.


I've thought of that for my own world but the amount of hyperlinking involvd and the sheer amount of individual entries i have at the moment is really putting me off.

For the wiki, what we really need is something similar but more appropriate. The key would be an internal link system more sophisticated than manual hyperlinks. The way I'd want it to work is:

• You type (or paste) your info into a text input.
• Whenever there's a link you want to insert, click the "link" button (similar to the hyperlink insertion system on forums like this one).
• The resulting popup would have at least two options: internal link and hyperlink (which you'd only use for external files and pages). Another possible option could be internally hosted files that you might want to link to (such as maps).
• Selecting the internal link option would show multiple levels of filtering, allowing you to select whichever page you want to link to (Category > Subcategory > Page kind of thing, for example Locations > Countries > Korachan).
• Once you're done selecting the right page (which would probably take seconds due to the nice organisation), it'd insert a token similar to bbcode.

• Key to this would be the ability to add new, empty categories, subcategories and pages as you do this. That means you wouldn't be limited to linking to pages that already exist, and would create pages which would then be ready and waiting for you to complete later on.
• If you don't specify text for the link, it'd show a special short name for that page (which would be defined within the options for that page rather than stored in the text you're currently writing, "Korachan" for example); this would mean any changes to names would be reflected across the system after being made in the one file that refers to that name. You'd only specify text if you want to say something like "information on Vorropohaiah's country of birth can be found here" instead of interrupting the flow with the name.
• You could use find & replace to replace every instance of a name in a long piece of text with the token to save time.

Another big issue I have with wikis is that they look hideous. Definitely would have to do something about that too

If I didn't already have multiple big projects on I'd consider making it... It'd be an incredibly useful web app.