gmr_leon, As I was doing a little more digging around for discussions of note-taking and games, I found a forum that was still online, and one of the posters mentioning they'd written on their blog about their habit of note-taking in games.
Despite the thread only being 13 years old, I expected the link to be dead. To my pleasant surprise?
It's still alive! And behold this glorious, somewhat broken, old school site:
http://www.rvgfanatic.com/7443/78601.html