I make notes constantly. It's to do lists, keeping track of things I want to keep track of, notes on character, diary of a character, notes on game controls if I can't remember it, projects, directions, quotes, things I can't see without going to a menu... depending on game, depending on what I find interesting.
I'm not the most organized person, I lose the notes, I can't make a sense of them, but there will be notes. I don't write anything otherwise, and I like notes, dammit.

it sounds like you need a notebook sytem for your notebook systems. :p

In the olden days there would have been a proper manual telling you how to operate planes.

You mean one of these:

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/Mzc1WDUwMA==/z/RFgAAOxy63FS-o30/$_3.JPG?set_id=2

Please note the volume 2 on the cover.

Sometimes it's better to watch the Youtube videos. I tried doing some of the tutorial mission in B-17 The Mighty Eighth, followed the manual but was still screwing things up. The video about taking off and feathering engines had more info than the manual explained.

Not only is the dialog dumb as sh*t, the whole idea of quest markers can make some quests nonsensical.

"Hi, I don't know you but I need you to find my book called "How to improve your life by eating cabbage and farting in crowded places". I don't remember where I put it but I think I last had it in the Binge and Vomit Inn on the third floor, last room on the right, under the left side of the bed. Can you go get it for me?"

You go there an it's exactly where the quest giver said it was. You go back to the quest giver and wonder why there's no dialog option along the lines of "The book was exactly where you said it was!! Why didn't you just save time and get the book yourself instead of standing around with your thumb up your arse, bothering random strangers to fetch you a lost book that you already know the location of?"

double post

Just like school. For more than twelve years the teachers ask questions to which they already know the answers, and the homework is the same. I guess otherwise they'd have to pay the students for work, and can't have that because it would be child labor. Instead school is just a daycare center for practicing agism because obviously the number the of times the Earth goes around the Sun is the key factor for capabilities of living.

Haha, don't get me started on that one :D I've had several discussions on the problems with modern day schooling. What makes it more interesting for me though is I work with 5-7 year old children so now I'm seeing the problems with school from the teachers point of view too :P