World Anvil new options are at all times a time for celebration! With this newest replace, we’re VERY excited to convey you a complete parcel of updates to enhance your worldbuilding high quality of life! On this replace, we’re focussing on group in all its varieties with THREE areas upgraded:
1. Folders for every little thing – the final word group!
- folders for all content material sorts!
- Makes group even simpler 🙂
2. Fast and simple Picture Administration to your worldbuilding
- doesn’t re-load the web page as you employ it
- entry photos WHILE you write articles, and many others
- extra cell pleasant
3. New Worldbuilding Notebooks preserve you organized!
- slides over your present work, for straightforward observe taking as you’re employed
- cell pleasant
- aesthetic upgrades that can assist you make notes prettier
- new “metadata” tags make group even simpler
New World Anvil new options in additional element!
So lets dig into every of those function bundles in additional element!
Folders replace
This small-but-powerful replace will make organizing your content material on World Anvil even simpler! All kinds of content material now have folders, serving to you manage your maps, timelines, manuscripts, secrets and techniques, historic occasions and extra.
Particularly for worlds with A LOT of content material, this new function is a godsend. One among my worlds has OVER TWO HUNDRED historic occasions, and I’m already excited to arrange these into “Deep historical past”, “Marketing campaign Occasions”, “Novel Occasions”, “Vital NPCs”, and many others!
You may create folders from the underside of the sidebars, then simply drag-and-drop (or dragon-drop, as we are saying on the crew) folders and content material to arrange. Get the total up to date Information to the World Anvil Interface for extra particulars!
Improved picture administration
Our picture administration system simply received an improve! Whereas the design appears to be like comparable, there are some very thrilling upgrades that make photos WAY simpler to handle, manage and entry now.
Initially, the picture supervisor now slides out OVER what you’ve been engaged on! This implies that you would be able to be writing an article, pull open the picture supervisor to seize what you need, after which GO BACK TO YOUR ARTICLE AGAIN with out reloading the web page. 🙌 Seamless!
Within the outdated picture administration system, you organized your photos in galleries which ALSO allowed you to create carousels in articles. This wasn’t dangerous, however… we needed to do higher! Now, if you open the picture supervisor for the primary time, the system will copy all of your galleries right into a folder system. Your authentic galleries will stay untouched (you’ll discover them within the high proper) and you may nonetheless use them for carousels and many others. However now you possibly can ALSO manage your photos by folders, making them simpler to navigate and manage.
The picture supervisor can be far more cell pleasant now, and simpler to navigate. It’s faster to interchange your photos with a more recent model, and to tag and add metadata to them. AND we’ve improved the search!
Get the total up to date Information to Photos Administration for extra particulars!
New notebooks!
Notebooks have at all times been an excellent spot to maintain your ideas and concepts BEFORE they grow to be worldbuilding. All guild members have the pocket book function, which helps you to create a number of notebooks for various sorts of notes. They’re nice for:
- Fast notes on the fly (pocket book is cell pleasant)
- “Meta” details about your worlds and initiatives
- Artistic journaling and downside fixing round a undertaking
- Brainstorming and concepts
- Preserving snippets of BBCode or CSS for fast reference
- World Model guides or Design information
Simpler to arrange
On this launch, we’ve added a set of latest options! That can assist you manage your notes extra simply, we’ve added:
- Search and filtering your pocket book
- Tags to help your searches
- Transfer your notes between sections
- Now you can Star essential notes for fast reference! These can be found from the “starred notes” part on the high of every pocket book.
Aesthetic notetaking
You can too make your notebooks prettier and simpler to parse rapidly!
- As with articles, now you can add Icons to your observe titles and sections for fast visible reference.
- Select a key coloration to your sections to make them visually distinct
- Notes can even now have cowl photos: you possibly can select your personal, or choose one from our library of photos and patterns
Extra choices for textual content editors
Textual content editors are at all times an essential query. So now you can:
- Select a default editor to your pocket book
- … but additionally select a textual content editor on a note-by-note foundation!
- Hyperlink articles out of your presently activated world
- Use Full BBCode assist for Euclid (containers, variables, and many others could not seem as in presentation) – to help storage of BBCode snippets
Introducing: Metadata in Notes!
We’ve additionally launched new function to notebooks: metadata! In essence, metadata works like key-value pairs, permitting you so as to add metadata to your notes. You may even create observe templates with particular metadata values included, that may be repeated every time.
For instance, in case you’re creating various kinds of notes, you can use:
- Sort: Artistic Journal
- Sort: CSS snippets
- Sort: brainstorming
- Sort: encounter concepts
Different concepts for metadata embody:
- Date: twenty fourth June 2025
- Venture: RPG
- System: Pathfinder2
… and the sky’s the restrict!
Get the total up to date Information to World Anvil Notebooks for extra particulars!
Give us suggestions!
World Anvil is continually bettering, and every selection, improve and enchancment is made primarily based in your suggestions – you’re that essential to us!
To go away suggestions: Click on the “Assist” query mark on the highest proper of World Anvil. Then choose “Ship Suggestions” on the backside of the web page!
(And, by the way in which, a huge THANK YOU to the Alchemists who helped us completely check these options and offered suggestions!)
What’s subsequent on World Anvil?
In World Anvil’s Birthday Stream final yr, we promised an replace of the web site to new, quicker applied sciences, and parity of design throughout the web site. This replace is only a few thrilling items of the puzzle revealing the place World Anvil goes subsequent.
You’ll discover we’ve launched a bunch of latest performance and know-how which you may even see propagated by different areas of World Anvil in future updates. We even have a number of upcoming enhancements designed to work in synergy with these new updates – preserve an eye fixed out for these coming quickly 👀
