I've used Obsidian for the Lonely Galaxy. I try to write up a topic there before posting it here or on the CBB. I also have a wiki that largely consists of polished (or not so polished) versions of those notes as well as forum posts I never bothered to document properly.

For conlanging I've been all over the place and back again. The grammar is easy enough. I just write in markdown. The lexicon is much harder because it needs to be searchable. I've tried Excel, Obsidian, TiddlyWiki, a JSON file, and currently a CSV file. I wish I could commit to one and stick with it but at this point I'm impressed I was able to preserve the lexicon through so many different formats.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I installed a mediawiki server. Took about 15 minutes, doing all my worldbuilding on the wiki now. Just add some article, link it to others, categorize stuff, use the built-in search engine to find stuff, add images and other media. Basically everything you need for organizing worldbuilding.

[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Was it your intent to eventually make it public? Or was there something about mediawiki that made it attractive for personal notes? It's a bit of a chore for personal use compared to Obsidian, but I could see it being of interest for the version history.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

It was not about making it public. It was, for me, the easiest solution to get things organized. I can just start an article on an idea and save it, and linking between articles and therefore ideas is easy. I can also integrate whatever media I need.

One big plus is the ability to use redirects as aliases. E.g. if there is an entry "Orc", there is a redirect "Orcs"->"Orc", so I can easily use either form in the text to link to it.

And on top of it, it's free.