Note-taking

[Suicide Junkie]

I simply use Wordpad (Very nice compromise), and hit alt-tab to bring it to the front while SE4 is running...

If you have win2000 or XP, a program such as This "actual title buttons" one could be very helpful, allowing you to make SE4 partially transparent!

No need to keep switching windows or minimizing things in order to see your notes while typing up a long political message!

[tokche]

i was just wondering what do you take notes of?

[Taera]

PBW games can take a while and sometimes its difficult to forget what where when who.

[dumbluck]

I use { this } program.

There is also a dicussion of this topic { here }

[Desdinova]

Originally posted by Taera:
PBW games can take a while and sometimes its difficult to forget what where when who.

lucky you. i have a hard time REMEMBERING what, where, when, who and why.

[Taera]

err, i meant to remember/not forget

[tokche]

Originally posted by desdinova:
REMEMBERING what, where, when, who and why.

Even worse if you have alhzheimer's...you meet new people everyday!

[capnq]

If I want to save a screen shot for later referance I can Alt PrintScreen, Alt Tab and Ctrl C

This, I must admit, is about the only advantage I can see for using Word. Can WordPad handle images? I can't remember the Last time I took a screenshot of anything, let alone of SE IV.

For straight text, .doc format is several times as large as the same file saved as .txt or .rtf . I've seen size differences as high as a factor of 5.

Most of my stack of notes on paper is a record of everything I've researched, in order, for each of my SE IV games that I started prior to v1.78. This was meant to be a reference base for writing my own AI files, if I ever get around to that.

Other stuff I've written down is lists of things I need to know when writing diplomatic Messages to another human player in a PBW game (system and planet names, stuff I want to trade for, etc.), total costs of ship designs that I need to retrofit, reminders of things that need to be done on a future turn, etc.

[Fyron]

Plain text files cant have images. But, rtf files can, and those can be edited with wordpad. So yes, wordpad can handle images, with the right document format.

[Baron Grazic]

I must admit that I use MS Outlook for all my note taking. It does everything that Word does, but it files it by creation date & subject. Plus the fact that I have Outlook open constantly and not Word.

Notes consist of all Communications received and sent and screen shots of enemy system map layouts.