: 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

@Rivera824

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I use a combination of tools:

for timelines, I use Aeon Timeline.
It's a paid software but it works well and there are developments still being wrought which should make it even better.
for organising ideas, networks, processes, hierarchies and confusing relationships between characters, I use yEd (freeware).
for organising family trees and large bodies of people which connect either by blood or not throughout several generations, I use Gramps (freeware; powerful genealogy software).
for creating maps (of countries, cities, streets, houses... even scenes, to keep track of who is where), I use CC3
It's a paid bunch of software products. Worthwhile if you need to visualise what you're writing.
for organising notes in almost a wiki-like fashion and bring together all my info and notes (including images exported from the previous software programmes), I use Realm Works.
It's a software programme and online service mostly directed at RPG players, but I've been using it to keep my novels (historical fiction, with a crazy amount of people, plots, locations, specific objects, maps, terminology... all the while having to keep track of what is attestedly historical, likely historical, long time legend and my own decisions). I don't know how I'd manage without it.

It's also easy to import word and pdf stuff into this huge database, which allows for linking anything you wish and establish relationships between characters. One weak point is that you can't print anything out of it just yet, but it's a work in process. They'll get there.

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