Keeping notes?

Hi, i was just wondering how you keep notes if you even do keep notes?

do you write them on the game, if so what do you write down?

Do you write them on word/notepad etc... and what do you include?

Is there any key things you have to write down when you start?

i am just wondering as i am thinking of keeping more alert with my team in fm10 and so was just wondering what you do at the moment!

If i have to take any notes i will write them down on paper, usually on a post-it note next to the laptop! I would use the in-game facility but i can never find it often enough

I put the notes I want to be reminded on later in the game, as if I write the important things on paper, I'll loose the paper! But random notes are just on loose bits of paper that litter my desk.

Gather mensa people dont need the note part for the game

The notes feature seems cool, but I can't think of anything I would use it for.

The notes feature seems cool, but I can't think of anything I would use it for.

...keeping notes?

Sigh............

I make mental notes.

Right now the only notes I use are to remind me for my international team when players who I have dropped due to injury have returned, so that I don't forget them.

So I'm the only one with a notebook that has FM notes going back to FM08 then...

Curious about the notes feature in FM, because it's something i've never tried in a decade of playing.

Say i make a note about player X, who responds badly to my pre-match jibes; "Player X will be targetted in the next game".

Will i be 'reminded' the next time we play, that i've added a note against him?

When I used to play CM when I first found this game , I was about 15/16 I used to print pages out I wanted to keep for one reason or another and ended up with piles of paper that I actually did go over and they did help. These days I don't keep any notes at all and seem to do just as well.

Will i be 'reminded' the next time we play, that i've added a note against him?

No you would have to check your notes before making a decision on what to say , Same goes for warnings or fines you may have given in the past.

Too much of a hassle to do it in-game reckon.

No you would have to check your notes before making a decision on what to say , Same goes for warnings or fines you may have given in the past.

So i'd have to go through the entire opposition squad and see if i've added notes against their players?

Well theres 1 thing that should be instantly improved for FM11. Before you play a game against the opposition, you should be informed that you have notes added against 1 or more opposition players, so you can see what you've added previously.

"Your Assistant Manager reminds you that you've created notes for X opposition players" and then perhaps a button for "View Notes".

yer i like this idea

I write them down in a little notebook......................should use the in game one but never have

So i'd have to go through the entire opposition squad and see if i've added notes against their players?

Yes but after so many times of looking you would remember anyways, I find after a player has been with me 6 months or so I do tend to remember myself

I'm in 2034/35 on my FM09 save at the moment and I appear to have used the note system once. That was to set a reminder to look at a player I had a buy-back clause on at the end of the season, because other clubs were sniffing around.

Never used notes.

I have an elaborate managers notebook comprising of a few hundred pages of lineups, formations, match notes, ramblings,ect. Actually its around thirty pages or so since I have trouble remembering regens. Plus I have a lot of free time.