Hi,

There is something plaguing me and I am hopeful you can help. I am fairly decent at organization (files, people, etc.) but I am a little stuck and would like some advice.

I would like to world build. What I mean is, I have an idea, a concept/etc. almost fully fleshed out in my head. I have most of the concept down (Races, Classes, POIs, etc.) or at least the concepts of them... and I would like to write them down.

I have Obsidian, I know waterfall/agile concepts, I have kanbans, repos. I'm just not sure if there is a good way to put it all together or lay it down? Is there a better tool or concept I should apply?

At them moment here is what I'm thinking (In Obsidian):

World/
|- Points of Interest/
|   |- Towns/
|   |   |- Town1
|   |   |- Town2
|   |- Dungeons/
|       |- Dungeon1
|       |- Dungeon2
|- Races/
|   |- Each Race
|- People of Interest
|   |- Politics
|   |- Villians
|   |- Heroes
|- Monsters & Mundane creatures/

Or something similar? Inside each file could be the useful pieces of meta-data? So that, POIs would list notable NPCs and locations, whereas Races would mention known histories, etc.

Am I going about this wrong or stupidly? Is this a good method or way of thinking about these things? I would really appreciate anyone who is familiar to hit me up.

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@SJohnRoss I appreciate it, though I don't have your experience... you do!

In my writing experience, for fiction I describe what the reader see's. For non-fiction I write what should happen or what won't happen.

How do you organize this is? Without relation or reason for being... how do you connect it to another abstract location that exists in this non-world?

Sadly, I'm not writing a story but rather, I think, a place for stories to occur? I'm trying to create the spiral notebook so that the words can come out? If that helps?

I really appreciate your thoughts!

@SJohnRoss I appreciate your words. Your designing sounds really cool.

It'd be cool if there was like a "fill this out" form. Someone should do that.