Obsidian is exactly what I was looking for to get into world building, a nice simple easy to use program that keeps everything in one place and has good organization, basically a local wiki page. Nothing overly fancy just doing some small things really well
OK, damn, the Longform plugin is lookin' nice. Personally I shifted to writing in ASCIIDoc (which Obsidian doesn't support), a markup language like Markdown but with way more support for longform content. It's like the missing link between Markdown and LaTeX. I kinda can't stop shilling it. For something like a novel it's probably unnecessary, but for the TTRPG rulebook I'm writing I like AsciiDoc because: - It's a developing standard with lots of options for format conversion, so it's fairly easy to get a properly formatted ebook, web version, PDF, etc. - Lots of metadata can be embedded right in front matter, which is why stuff like ebook conversion kinda just works - It manages very hierarchical content very well (within one file so you don't need to splice it) - Typographical character conversion. So when you convert the file to something other than plaintext, you'll actually get fancy stuff like emdashes and proper curly quotes rather than the typewriter style - Like LaTex, you aren't worrying about formatting at all, just content. It'll handle formatting for you. Generate a ToC for you n' everything.
I actually like it for haing everything all in one place. Just... down the list 'here are my chapters. here are my notes. here are my other notes. Here are the bits of my brain from where i bashed my head against a wall in frustration.' That sorta thing.
Obsidian is exactly what I was looking for to get into world building, a nice simple easy to use program that keeps everything in one place and has good organization, basically a local wiki page. Nothing overly fancy just doing some small things really well
Recent Obsidian convert. It's pretty slick. Vim mode is my favorite part, I probably wouldn't use it without.
OK, damn, the Longform plugin is lookin' nice.
Personally I shifted to writing in ASCIIDoc (which Obsidian doesn't support), a markup language like Markdown but with way more support for longform content. It's like the missing link between Markdown and LaTeX.
I kinda can't stop shilling it.
For something like a novel it's probably unnecessary, but for the TTRPG rulebook I'm writing I like AsciiDoc because:
- It's a developing standard with lots of options for format conversion, so it's fairly easy to get a properly formatted ebook, web version, PDF, etc.
- Lots of metadata can be embedded right in front matter, which is why stuff like ebook conversion kinda just works
- It manages very hierarchical content very well (within one file so you don't need to splice it)
- Typographical character conversion. So when you convert the file to something other than plaintext, you'll actually get fancy stuff like emdashes and proper curly quotes rather than the typewriter style
- Like LaTex, you aren't worrying about formatting at all, just content. It'll handle formatting for you. Generate a ToC for you n' everything.
this is epic!
I intend to use it to write lesson plans for my martial arts school
I actually like it for haing everything all in one place. Just... down the list 'here are my chapters. here are my notes. here are my other notes. Here are the bits of my brain from where i bashed my head against a wall in frustration.' That sorta thing.
Yeah, I’m really warming to it