Balancing Tech (World Anvil, Unreal) with Creative Flow?

Hey everyone,

I'm a producer currently developing a sci-fi action series concept, and I'm diving headfirst into building out the world. I've been experimenting with World Anvil for all my lore building (character backstories, alien species, political factions) and it's robust, almost too robust! Simultaneously, I'm trying to use Unreal Engine for some basic pre-vis to block out key action sequences and test environment ideas.

The challenge I'm hitting is that I feel like I'm spending more time learning features and organizing data than actually _creating_. I'm getting bogged down in the tools themselves. I want to leverage their power, but without letting them dictate the creative process.

For those of you who use tools like World Anvil and Unreal in your personal creative workflows, how do you integrate them without the technology overwhelming your initial creative spark and ideation?