Organize your worldbuilding

World Anvil is the ultimate answer to “how to organize worldbuilding”! Our quick search features, nested categories, tags and cross referencing give you everything you need to organise worldbuilding for any project, novel or dnd campaign! Our stunning table of contents is the ultimate worldbuilding organizer for your players or readers, and you can use book-style covers for those aspects your readers use the most. The dashboard is your private world building organizer, where you can find anything in your DnD or other RPG campaign setting or novel setting in seconds!

The key to any organization system, and especially how to organize your worldbuilding, is being able to find things in seconds. In World Anvil, you can search your ENTIRE world setting - timelines, map pins, characters, plots, stat blocks and more, with just three letters! This allows you to get back to your novel or DnD campaign even quicker!

For organizing worldbuilding, context is everything. That’s why World Anvil has a super quick and easy way to link articles together! You can even make links and placeholders for articles you haven’t made yet, which are added to the handy to do list!

Another great worldbuilding organizer tool are our interactive maps. Link articles to points on your maps, so you can keep track of your novel or campaign setting project at a glance! You can even link maps together, creating a chain that links your town map to your region, your continent and your world. Ultimate worldbuilding scope and organization in a click!

Ever wondered how to organize your worldbuilding when the ideas come faster than you can arrange them on the page? Never fear - our quick article creation button allows you to create articles AS YOU’RE WRITING OTHER ARTICLES! You’ll never lose a new campaign setting or novel idea again.