How do you organize your assets?

[Saltome]

Well, happy hollidays everyone. I'll be gone for a few days around the holidays, but I wanted to give you some food for thought.
This is mostly targeted at writers, since keeping a story consistent can become hard with all the information that needs to be kept in order. Add in some twenty something characters that have to be synchronized and you have a real headache on your hands.
I'd like to know if you use any specific methods to organize information.
Or perhaps any programs which help you to the purpose.

And lastly, if we were to develop our own organization tool, what would it be like?
What are the most pressing types of information that you need to keep, and what would be the most convenient way for it to be organized.

[SinSisters]

Hmm, depends on what you mean. I like Realtimeboard for organizing character profiles and branching choices.

-Nat