Current state of world-building software?

• obsidian-releases

  1,652 7,956 9.9 JavaScript

  Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.

  

I've been experimenting recently with the free Obsidian Notes (unrelated to Obsidian Portal). It's basically a personal wikis stored in Markdown files stored on your own computer. (Markdown is basically plain text with some simple formatting that can be easily translated to HTML.)

• TiddlyWiki

  273 7,704 9.6 JavaScript

  A self-contained JavaScript wiki for the browser, Node.js, AWS Lambda etc.

I use Obsidian portal for my public/player-facing side of my game and a tiddly wiki for the GM side. This lets me link to things that probably shouldn't go up on a public-facing website due to copyright as well as keep offline backups, but write things in Tiddly Wiki then cut-and-paste it into OP. The formatting differences between the two are annoying, but minor

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• vimwiki

  112 8,559 6.8 Vim Script

  Personal Wiki for Vim

  

For actual worldbuilding and brainstorming I use vim and vimwiki. For note-taking or writing long texts, I use ghostwriter.

• kanka

  60 231 9.9 PHP

  Worldbuilding and RPG campaign management tool

  

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