I used to use OneNote, which worked ok but it got really crazy organizing and reorganizing every time we started a new chapter of our years-long homebrew campaign. Frustrated, I started looking around at other tools.
For the past year my players and I were using World Anvil to create a sort of online wiki for my players to replace the journal from our VTT which is not always online. I wanted to give them resources where they could check back on things that happened during the sessions, people they met, etc. I stopped using World Anvil recently because they straight up lost a bunch of my nested articles. I had articles nested in articles - which was something that I learned to do by watching their own internal YouTube guide videos. I asked for help on the official Discord server and was told "don't use nested articles", which breaks my entire organization methods - the same problem I came into with OneNote. Losing data randomly though isn't ok with me. A lot of those articles were WIP and I had no backup...
I started using Kanka recently because it's a small team and it seems like it's going to work out, but before I get super invested, I wanted to hear from the rest of the community, so - do you all use any tools? How do you keep yourself organized, especially in a long homebrew campaign?
My spouse is the note taker in the group. I forget which note taking app they use, but they send me their notes at the end of each session and I've been uploading those to World Anvil as "Session Reports", now in Kanka as "Journals". They definitely have been a game changer.
I'm actually in the process of going back and watching our old sessions on YouTube and retaking notes to figure out exactly how long they've been on their adventure. We've been playing every other weekend (minus some breaks) since ~May 2020 so it's a lot to go through x.x