: Re: How to manage extensive notes? I'm less than ten thousand words into a piece of fanfiction I'm writing, and I have significantly more than that in notes. Such areas covered in separate documents

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For me, I love folders. I can't get enough of em. I would create a folder titled WritingProjects, and then within create a folder called FanFiction. Within there, what ever the overall project name you want for your individual project. Within those project folders you can create separate folders such as World building, Characters, Plot, what ever note categories you may have for this specific project.

This would now allow you to more easily go to the desired notes without having to sift through 20 documents of world building to get to the 1 you need for character. You can just go right to the character. Even better, you can have multiple instances of file explorer open so that you can have all 3 folders open at once and just switch to the folder you need. As you work through the story, you can combine documents, even delete documents as they are no longer needed. Maybe even create a new folder for documents that are no longer needed but instead of deleting it and losing those notes, you have them archived just in case you realized, you actually did need something still.

Ultimately, I personally love folders. You know that when you open up the world building folder, everything in there will be related to world building. Of course, if you need to further sub categorize, you can create folders as needed. Say within world building you have a folder for environment, one for culture, one for animals/plants and so on. Just depends on how organized/OCD you want to get with it.

I will be honest, this might seem like a hassle to some with having so many folders to go in and out of, but this is how my brain works the best when it comes to organizing. I compartmentalize everything down to pretty specific categories.

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