I'm getting ready to start a new campaign and I'm curious what people like to use (if anything) to keep track of their campaign for both the GM and players benefit. We play online so it's important that we have a system where anyone can access information when they need it from wherever they need it.
To date we have used a combination of Google Drive (for character backgrounds and character sheets) and Dropbox for Adventure Summaries, any necessary PDFs such as an AP Players Guide. We tried setting up a forum for in-character "downtime" interactions and activities but only about half the group used it so we dropped it.
What do you use for this kind of thing? I've seen blogs and heard of folks using wikis. What do you like/not like about your system? If it's a website of sorts that you could like me to (for an example) that would be great.
If I needed to set something up right now, I'd likely use a WordPress blog with each character being given the rights to post to it so they can do diary entries or whatever.
You'd still probably want Dropbox for the file exchange with that solution though, unless you're using things that can legally be published on the 'net or set up extra plugins to allow for only registered users to download files.
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I use Obsidian Portal. All free (unless you want to do some HTML customization or use some special features) and tracks NPCs, items, places pretty well. Most importantly, it has an adventure log that lets you track each session and link to NPCs, items, PCs, etc.
You can check out mine as an example: The Shield of Heaven