#We did a lot more sysdoc closer to when we became aware of our plurality

[radiomogai]

you say that you switched to more private means of organizing info instead of a wiki, and feel free to ignore this ask or not answer if you would rather not give details as i am asking about something private, but if you want to share some details about how you organize information about your system i would like to know but i would also totally understand if you didn't want to share certain things, i'm just saying that i'm curious but i also don't want to intrude so it's really up to you

Our system documentation is honestly a mess at this point. Used to be more organized, now it isn't. But we use a combination of PluralKit, a private Discord server, Notion, Obsidian, and Lighthouse

A private Discord server has our commonplace book, notes to other fronters, information about our headspace, information about system history, and notes about headmates. We've had it for years so there's a wealth of information in there. It acts as a spot for us to talk to other fronters or alters too when speaking inside our head isn't working, and helps us remember stuff like appointments and birthdays

Our PluralKit profiles, at least in my system (we're a polyplex), have some basic information and are public. Name, group, role, some identity labels, a sample of typing. They're designed to be quick things we can use to ground ourselves when we come into front and need a refresher on what we're like, pull us out of blurriness

My system doesn't use Notion as much anymore, but one of our sidesystems does. In both cases, we've got spreadsheets of member names, and each name takes you to a page with a template, which is similar to the PK profiles but more in-depth. Also includes stuff like personal history, personality, relationships with other members, why someone split, etc.

Obsidian's pretty much the same as Notion but without the template. Meant to just be whatever comes to mind, let the individual member write what they want. We don't use it as much as we mean to

And Lighthouse we mostly use for individual journals. Some of us put passwords on our journals (which are stored in KeepPassXC, and it's an honour system to not look at other member's passwords because we can't really prevent it 100%), some don't. It's also got basic information for getting unblurry. Has more stuff like fronting indicators and front triggers

Overall it's kind of a fucking mess hahaha. We're really behind on sysdoc and I think we've mostly accepted that at this point. We'd really love to really create cohesive documentation on our polyplex but we have too many projects that we're already behind on so it doesn't really happen. At this point, it's mostly a matter of uh, if you front, then write down stuff about you that you think is important. Sometimes non-fronters will request fronters to write down info on them, sometimes fronters will reach out to non-fronters asking about info to get it written down

You know the concept of a worldbuilding bible? We'd love to have something like that for our system, or an ethnography of places in our system. Big projects, though, so they'll just stay dreams