I've used Obsidian for the Lonely Galaxy. I try to write up a topic there before posting it here or on the CBB. I also have a wiki that largely consists of polished (or not so polished) versions of those notes as well as forum posts I never bothered to document properly.

For conlanging I've been all over the place and back again. The grammar is easy enough. I just write in markdown. The lexicon is much harder because it needs to be searchable. I've tried Excel, Obsidian, TiddlyWiki, a JSON file, and currently a CSV file. I wish I could commit to one and stick with it but at this point I'm impressed I was able to preserve the lexicon through so many different formats.

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[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 21 hours ago

I'm using a number of tools to keep track of stuff. A number of Dokwuki instances to keep stuff like setting, character info, lore, etc. DW even supports the public-facing sites of my worldbuilding, thanks to it being very easy to sync to from an intranet. For processing data, a number of SQLite databases, though I have yet to work on an automated, well-formatted means to extract the data I want from them. LibreOffice for some spreadsheets and graphs, as well as for "prettifying" any sort of export I want to do. All I'm missing is something like Freemind for higher-concept organizing, and a good FOSS tool for making maps.