World Anvil new features are always a time for celebration! With this latest update, we’re VERY excited to bring you a whole parcel of updates to improve your worldbuilding quality of life! In this update, we’re focussing on organization in all its forms with THREE areas upgraded:
1. Folders for everything – the ultimate organization!
- folders for all content types!
- Makes organization even easier 🙂
2. Quick and easy Image Management for your worldbuilding
- doesn’t re-load the page as you use it
- access images WHILE you write articles, etc
- more mobile friendly
3. New Worldbuilding Notebooks keep you organized!
- slides over your current work, for easy note taking as you work
- mobile friendly
- aesthetic upgrades to help you make notes prettier
- new “metadata” tags make organization even easier
New World Anvil new features in more detail!
So lets dig into each of these feature bundles in more detail!
Folders update
This small-but-powerful update will make organizing your content on World Anvil even easier! All types of content now have folders, helping you organize your maps, timelines, manuscripts, secrets, historical events and more.
Especially for worlds with A LOT of content, this new feature is a godsend. One of my worlds has OVER TWO HUNDRED historical events, and I’m already excited to organize those into “Deep history”, “Campaign Events”, “Novel Events”, “Important NPCs”, etc!
You can create folders from the bottom of the sidebars, then just drag-and-drop (or dragon-drop, as we say on the team) folders and content to organize. Get the full updated Guide to the World Anvil Interface for more details!
Improved image management
Our image management system just got an upgrade! While the design looks similar, there are some very exciting upgrades that make images WAY easier to manage, organize and access now.
First of all, the image manager now slides out OVER what you’ve been working on! This means that you can be writing an article, pull open the image manager to grab what you want, and then GO BACK TO YOUR ARTICLE AGAIN without reloading the page. 🙌 Seamless!
In the old image management system, you organized your images in galleries which ALSO allowed you to create carousels in articles. This wasn’t bad, but… we wanted to do better! Now, when you open the image manager for the first time, the system will copy all your galleries into a folder system. Your original galleries will remain untouched (you’ll find them in the top right) and you can still use them for carousels etc. But now you can ALSO organize your images by folders, making them easier to navigate and organize.
The image manager is also way more mobile friendly now, and easier to navigate. It’s quicker to replace your images with a newer version, and to tag and add metadata to them. AND we’ve improved the search!
Get the full updated Guide to Images Management for more details!
New notebooks!
Notebooks have always been a great spot to keep your thoughts and ideas BEFORE they become worldbuilding. All guild members have the notebook feature, which lets you create multiple notebooks for different kinds of notes. They’re great for:
- Quick notes on the fly (notebook is mobile friendly)
- “Meta” information about your worlds and projects
- Creative journaling and problem solving around a project
- Brainstorming and ideas
- Keeping snippets of BBCode or CSS for quick reference
- World Style guides or Design guide
Easier to organize
In this release, we’ve added a collection of new features! To help you organize your notes more easily, we’ve added:
- Search and filtering your notebook
- Tags to aid your searches
- Move your notes between sections
- You can now Star important notes for quick reference! These are available from the “starred notes” section at the top of each notebook.
Aesthetic notetaking
You can also make your notebooks prettier and easier to parse quickly!
- As with articles, you can now add Icons to your note titles and sections for quick visual reference.
- Choose a key color for your sections to make them visually distinct
- Notes can also now have cover images: you can choose your own, or select one from our library of images and patterns
More options for text editors
Text editors are always an important question. So you can now:
- Choose a default editor for your notebook
- … but also choose a text editor on a note-by-note basis!
- Link articles from your currently activated world
- Use Full BBCode support for Euclid (containers, variables, etc may not appear as in presentation) – to assist storage of BBCode snippets
Introducing: Metadata in Notes!
We’ve also introduced new feature to notebooks: metadata! In essence, metadata works like key-value pairs, allowing you to add metadata to your notes. You can even create note templates with specific metadata values included, that can be repeated each time.
For example, if you’re creating different types of notes, you could use:
- Type: Creative Journal
- Type: CSS snippets
- Type: brainstorming
- Type: encounter ideas
Other ideas for metadata include:
- Date: 24th June 2025
- Project: RPG
- System: Pathfinder2
… and the sky’s the limit!
Get the full updated Guide to World Anvil Notebooks for more details!
Give us feedback!
World Anvil is constantly improving, and every choice, upgrade and improvement is made based on your feedback – you’re that important to us! <3
To leave feedback: Click the “Help” question mark on the top right of World Anvil. Then select “Send Feedback” at the bottom of the page!
(And, by the way, a massive THANK YOU to the Alchemists who helped us thoroughly test these features and provided feedback!)
What’s next on World Anvil?
In World Anvil’s Birthday Stream last year, we promised an update of the website to new, faster technologies, and parity of design across the website. This update is just a few exciting pieces of the puzzle revealing where World Anvil is going next.
You’ll notice we’ve introduced a bunch of new functionality and technology which you may see propagated through other areas of World Anvil in future updates. We also have several upcoming improvements designed to work in synergy with these new updates – keep an eye out for those coming soon 👀
