Recently a handful of people have told me that they really like the way I organize my conlang notes, I use Obsidian (a note-taking app) and I picked a theme to make it look like Wiktionary, so if there's any interest I'd like to make a blank template to share for other conlangers to use. (details below the cut!).
As you can see from the screenshots I have pages for words that include IPA, definitions, and even things like tags. These tags are useful for making automatically updating lists, so if I tag a word as "Verb" it will show up in the list of verbs without me having to manually add it.
And there's a "properties" section at the top, it is a bit tedious to fill out the same info that's already in the text into the properties but it allows you to see those properties on the automatically updating lists, as you can see on the third screenshot.
You can even have a list for transitive verbs specifically by either adding a "transitive" tag, or in my case adding a link to the transitive page (trans.) which also doubles as a glossary so I can click on it and it shows me what transitive means (This lends itself well to noun classes imo).
I use templates so if I want to add a new word I can just click on the template for "Proto-Abyssal Noun" or "Proto-Abyssal Verb" and it will give me a page ready for me to add all the info I need to. This feels like a pretty convenient way for me to keep track of things.
One of the main advantages imo is that if you have several languages in the same world you can easily link between them, for example you can add "this is a borrowing from X language's word: Y" and have actual links between the pages, works with Proto-languages as well.
And if you do have several languages it's useful to have a page for each definition, so you can see what a word is in several of your languages at once, like in the first screenshot if you click "sing" you'd see the word for sing in all of my languages (only 1 has a word for sing atm tho).
Now, of course, anyone can learn to set up their own Obsidian vault, it's not that difficult, but I've found a handful of plugins and things that are useful for beginners, so if you need to change the name of a tag or a language you don't have to manually edit hundreds of notes.
And honestly in my opinion the most tedious part is setting the whole thing up, organizing things into folders and making all of the automatically updating lists work properly, so I think it could be a good idea for me to make a blank template with all the folders and everything in place and share that, as well as writing a little guide on useful plugins for updating tags, properties, etc. as well as tips to avoid future headaches down the road, does this sound like something anyone wld be interested in? let me know!
