Note-taking

[tbontob]

There are times when I wish to take a few notes in a PBW game.

Bringing MS Word to the fore in a SE4 game, causes the secondary window such as log, ship/unit window, or construction queque to close.

Anybody know what can be done to prevent the closure of the secondary window when a word processor is brought up?

[Taera]

i have notepad in my quicklink tray. extremly useful. i'd recommend that or any other notepad-like program. Notepad is virtually one of the best not-taking programs because it does not take any resources. You can have 20 notepads open and still have about 90% of your resources.
Try opening 20 word documents and navigating through them... for notepad it only takes alt+tab press.

[Kamog]

Hey I wonder if you have dual monitors setup, can you play SE4 on one screen and have a word processor open on the other monitor? That would be handy...

[capnq]

I continue to be baffled by some people's aVersion to taking notes on a piece of paper. It's so much easier than alt-&ltTab&gting back and forth, and not that difficult to keep organized.

I only use Notepad for things that I plan to copy & paste somewhere else, such as a story thread like History of the Galaxy II {link}.

Using Word to take notes is like watering your garden with a firehose.

[tbontob]

Originally posted by Taera:
i have notepad in my quicklink tray. extremly useful. i'd recommend that or any other notepad-like program. Notepad is virtually one of the best not-taking programs because it does not take any resources. You can have 20 notepads open and still have about 90% of your resources.
Try opening 20 word documents and navigating through them... for notepad it only takes alt+tab press.

Thanks Taera

But I am not sure what you mean by "quicklink tray". Do you mean the Quick Launch Toolbar (also called the "application launcher") which is on the taskbar [edit: just]to the right of the Start button?

[ November 23, 2002, 18:07: Message edited by: tbontob ]

[tbontob]

Originally posted by capnq:
I continue to be baffled by some people's aVersion to taking notes on a piece of paper. It's so much easier than alt-&ltTab&gting back and forth, and not that difficult to keep organized.

I only use Notepad for things that I plan to copy & paste somewhere else, such as a story thread like History of the Galaxy II {link}.

Using Word to take notes is like watering your garden with a firehose.

Actually, it is easier...at least for me.

For example, just entering a difficult spelled planet means I have to move to the right of my computer (my desk is L shaped), enter the name, go back to the computer to look at the name again and then go back to my notes to make sure I spelled it correctly. My spelling ability is good, but it fails me with respect to planets/systems.