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does anyone have any good tools they'd recommend for plurality/system related things? specifically things that could help you organize your brain deal but anything is welcome..!!! anything you find useful will be a biiig help, probably!!!

(doing this in a rebug for visibility, since I think followers might have additional suggestions/will find this helpful)

in no particular order

Obsidian - Powerful note-taking tool that lets you make a bunch of connections between entries and see a graphical map of those connections.

• Free, no ads
• Notes are only stored on your device (local-only) by default. There's a paid option to add on its E2EE (end-to-end-encrypted)* syncing service, but I've seen people also get Syncthing (free) working with it.
• Available on PC/Mac/Linux, iOS, Android.

Simply Plural - App made by a plural system for plural systems, featuring switch tracking (based on time spent at front), a way to let friends know who's out front, headmate documentation, a Discord-like chat just for your system, internal polls, probably more!

• Free, no ads. The creators plan to introduce an optional membership that will help pay for the costs of hosting the service that gives small cosmetic extras.
• Cloud-based by default, no local-only option. Encrypted at rest, not end-to-end.
• Available on web, iOS, and Android.

TwiNote (Android, iOS) - It's your very own copy of Twitter, just for you and your system.

• Free, has ads that are removable for a one-time payment of a few dollars.
• Local-only, no sync, exporting/importing is locked behind paid membership.
• Available on iOS and Android

Antar - A chatroom just for yourself and your system.

• Free, no ads
• Local-only, no sync, iirc has an export feature.
• Available on iOS and Android.

Lighthouse - Comprehensive site made by a plural system, for plural systems, with multiple private journals, a forum for your system, wish tracking, probably more. Designed with disordered/dissociative systems in mind but explicitly open to all.

• Free, no ads.
• Cloud-based, no local-only mode, but end-to-end encrypted.
• Available on web.

*"End-to-end encryption" means that your data is encrypted before it leaves your device, and only unencrypted when it reaches another of your devices, using a key that only you know (usually your password). So even though the data touches their servers, no one but you can see what it contains - not even they can read what you've written.
"Encryption at rest" means that your data is unencrypted** when it reaches their servers, and then encrypted before being saved to them by a key that they own. This means the server owner does possess the means to read your data if they wanted to.

**technically there is also another layer of encryption going on for the majority of services where data is encrypted while traveling to and from their servers by a key that both you and they know ("encrypted in transit") but this is already enough of a tangent as it is.