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3/30. How do you keep track of important info related to your characters, world, etc.?

Scrivener. I can put tons of backstory and notes in the project along with the manuscript. I have folders and folders of notes.

#WordWeavers Mar 30: How do you keep track of important info related to your characters, world, etc.?

Obsidian for everything. Notes, plotpoints, people, locations, facts that come up. One folder per project and notes per topic, adding tags where needed.
Multi-story projects go into a main folder. I can find anything back in Obsidian.

Libre Office Calc for mystery stories where I need to keep minute track of various timelines where I number events and colour-mark each time/story line.

#WordWeavers Mar 30: How do you keep track of important info related to your characters, world, etc.?

For the Sanity Line books, that setting and cast are so old that I know a lot of them like siblings at this point.

For everywhere else: Wikis. OH SO MANY wikis.

I create wikis so often that I wrote a guide about my process and constantly refine that process. (I just migrated a ton of them in off-hours last week)

https://www.arcanalabs.ca/guides/wikis.html

#WordWeavers Mar 30: How do you keep track of important info related to your characters, world, etc.?

I'll typically have a notebook with initial outline, research, worldbuilding, and core character notes, but then take more notes within Scrivener as I write (=make up more stuff.)

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#WordWeavers 30. How do you keep track of important info related to your characters, world, etc.?

Scrivener for the win!

I have a folder for characters (this further divided into main, major and minor SCs, and antagonists), one for world-building (this one divided into each realm, and... a lot of stuff inside each 😅), and one for places.

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How do you keep track of important info related to your characters, world, etc.?

I've got my master spreadsheet my editor calls my "world bible". A lot of it is also in my head.

#WordWeavers Mar 30: How do you keep track of important info related to your characters, world, etc.?

In my head. 🤷

I have a 'gestalt' of what I'm aiming for, and of each character, and the world outlines. When I'm writing, I can improvise around that core. It's really seldom I make an inconsistency, and I nearly always spot them on a reread/edit.

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There are handwritten notes, but anything critical eventually ends up in Scrivener. There are, though, differences between those files.

Worldbuilding files tend to read like textbooks to aid organization, the shorter topics similar to essays.

My general list of characters, especially for Kovenlore Chronicles, is grouped in various categories.

There are also the backstory narratives and backstory tales for certain characters.

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#WordWeavers March 30: How do you keep track of important info related to your characters, world, etc.?

I write books in Scrivener, which supports pcre regexp search which is amazing once you know it; and I jot copious notes in SimpleNote, which supports Markdown. I am, however, a pantser, not a plotter, so most of the time my response to keeping track is LOLWUT?!?