How do you guys keep track of all your turns?

[Exsanguination]

I don't get it... a lot you SGer's give such detailed descriptions of what you do, turn by turn. How????? all I can think of doing to keep track of my turns is to write them down on paper, which is annoying so I take really light notes. You all must do something different, what is it? What do YOU do?

 

[ChrTh]

I keep Notepad open, usually along with the thread of the game I'm in (for reference purposes). I'll Alt-Tab back and forth between Notepad and the game.

 

[God]

I like to keep my notepad (on the PC), the thread, Screenshot hunter, and the game opened, all at the same time. I take screenshot of the our lands, edit or whatever with paint, and copy and paste the write up from notepad to the post reply box.

 

[LKendter]

I am yet another memeber of the notepad club.

The one lesson I did learn - save notepad after updates! I was annoyed where I lost notes on several turns with a PC crash and learned my lesson.

 

[meldor]

I am afraid I am a paper note taker. I tried the notepad tabbing, but during the inter-turn of a big game it got to be too much. Besides, with some of these names, I can't remember how to spell them 5 seconds after I tab. I usually only do screenies at the end or if something really interesting happens. I actually write my summary directly into the edit box (which explains my many errors, no spell checking first).

 

[T-hawk]

I'm running one of the most overlooked features quietly introduced into Windows 2000: multiple monitor support. By far the easiest way to do it is to play Civ 3 on one monitor while Notepad's running on the other.

 

[Melanic Sheep]

Must be nice...

 

[Sullla]

I also use notepad to take notes of what happens. If you read some of my summaries... well, there's no way I could remember things in that level of detail without taking notes. This does mean I have to save both my game every turn and my notes each turn in the event of a computer crash (which has happened more times than I'd like to mention).

 

[Exsanguination]

alt+tab? AHA!!! Thats the secret... wondering how ya did that... thanks guys!

 

[donsig]

I used to take notes on paper. Thans to the demogame I've joined the alt+tab notepad crowd.

 

[ChrTh]

Originally posted by Exsanguination
alt+tab? AHA!!! Thats the secret... wondering how ya did that... thanks guys!

If you forget to open up Notepad aforehand, do a Ctrl-ESC to bring up your Taskbar/Menus.

 

[Chieftess]

I've always used Notepad. (or Wordpad if the text is really large). I tried MS Word once, but the auto-formatting can be annoying.

 

[Dark Sheer]

I did go for notepad and alt-tab anytime over pen and paper.

And thank goodness I have never had a crash as a result of alt-tab between Civ3 and other windows.

 

[mauiduck]

Alt + Tab with Word Pad and then bring it over to another computer for editing and spell check in Word X, then copy and paste into forum, besides being able to have a back up should I crash I can correct all teh typos I am famous for...

 

[Knight-Dragon]

I use a pen and paper. Usually notes down a short description of each turn, before posting my entire summary based on them.

Got to try the notepad one of these days... Thanks for the idea.

 

[Snaproll]

Wow - having two monitors would be great!

 

[Pillager]

I have two monitors, but I do tend to use pen and paper. I sometimes have my TV card going at the same time, and XP Pro +128RAM + CivIII + too much else = jerkiness.

 

[Sirian]

I write from memory almost all the time. Sometimes this shows in a lack of nuts-n-bolts details, but also in the flow of my reports, as I tend to include commentary that accounts for a more macro-oriented perspective: what's going on at an executive level. I'm sure I have a higher error rate than most on mixing up the exact dates or sometimes the order of a list of events, but generally more is gained than lost by this method.

I do take notes on occasion, though. In those cases, yes I use alt-tab and wordpad (notepad, blah).

You can also usually tell the difference between reports I wrote from memory and those right out of a note file.


My tourney game reports are done the same way, except that I usually have screenshots to jog the memory, or may include a note file for some bits without actually pasting the notes directly in. I have a strong memory. Not infallible, but reliable.


- Sirian

 

[Padma]

The last 2 SG's I have been involved in have been Training Day games, so the alt-tab-notepad nuts-and-bolts write-ups have been the order of the day. But I loved reading some of the RBD games, and Sirian's (and others') macro-oriented reports. It was almost like reading a story rather than a game.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

Notepad and Alt+Tab - and PSP for screenshots