Notebooks?

[benlehman]

Am I the only designer in the world who doesn't keep tons of notebooks around?

Comments

[the-stalwart.livejournal.com]

Yes, Ben, you are.

We fully expect you to surrender your Game Designer Licence as soon as you get that whole passport thing straightened out.

Or was that your Licence to Kill? I keep getting them confused...

[chgriffen.livejournal.com]

Well, I have about eight or nine on my desk and at least two in my briefcase...

[ethan-greer.livejournal.com]

No, you're not.

[rob-donoghue.livejournal.com]

@set me=paper_whore

[nikotesla.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm a serial notebook kind of guy, so I've got a dozen or so around.

I find that if I try to keep my ideas all in my head, some fall out and other people pick them up and use them. This way, I've put them away.

The primary function it serves is actually the mnemonic of writing the ideas down. They function better as little diagrams than a pile of half-ideas.

[greyorm.livejournal.com]

I would be completely lost without my notebooks -- I simply wouldn't remember all the various ideas I get. Plus, I've found recently, that writing out flowcharts really helps crystallize the direction of my ideas. More mysteriously, it is the act of writing by hand that helps, not typing similar material out on the computer.

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

Quite probably. I go everywhere with at least one notebook within arms reach all the time. But then again my notebook computer is a lugable and internet access spotty at times (and forces me to be tied down to a specific location by wire or limited wireless hot spot).

And if I don't write stuff down at all it gets forgotten too often, at least the deeper details.