Note-taking

[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.