[eternityforest]

I always heavily document before coding. My preferred tool is just Obsidian. I just make a folder and take large numbers of markdown notes for everything.

Heirarchal notes let you organize however you want, you can make your own little wiki to handle the zooming.

I also am very much considering getting some kind of digital drawing device, like a Boogie Board with the smart pen, or else waiting till there's an affordable stylus phone that I like(The Moto Stylus is the only recent cheap one and that lacks wireless charging).

But for now I primarily rely on text for everything, until I'm ready to move into CAD or code or whatever I'm doing.

[kimburgess]

Another advocate for Obsidian here. You can use it for base notes, embed other pieces of content as suitable to your domain, link and visualise these via a DAG with the in-built graph view and extend from there with extensions like https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview if you need. The tool can be as simple or complex as your project requires.

[Phreaker00]

Thanks for the insight, very much appreciated. Didn't know about Obsidian yet, looks interesting.