: Re: What editor can I use for world building that has a tree-like structure for my files? I'm looking for a simple editor to start getting into world building and story writing which is working

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Give Scrivener a try.

It’s designed for long-form writing, such as novels, screenplays and dissertations.

Each Scrivener file contains multiple documents: the stuff you write and other files you add (like PDFs or JPEGs) for research material.

The Scrivener file uses a hierarchal structure and to organise material stored in it - both folders and files can have sub-folders and files stored under them.

It’s also relatively cheap for specialised software, and has Windows, Mac OS and iOS versions. There are also trial versions available.

While Scrivener doesn’t have collaboration support, it has Dropbox support, so you can save the file in a shared Dropbox folder to allow other people with Scrivener access to it. That should do the trick, so long as two people don’t open the file at the same time, and use the revisions option to show when someone has changed something.

EDIT: I remembered there was an Scrivener template for RPGs. There’s a link to it in this article, which is part review of Scrivener and part guide to using it for developing an RPG campaign.

EDIT 2: Scrivener’s developer also does a mind-mapping tool called Scapple. So far it doesn’t integrate directly with Scrivener. (Which would be awesome.)

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