Keys to a good design notebook?

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I know it’s a bit late in the season, but I was curious as to what differentiates a good design notebook from an average one. We’ve incorporated CAD designs, flow-charts, calculations, our program, and a daily log (w/ pictures) of what we’ve been doing into ours, but I think there’s more we can add to the notebook.

Here are some pictures of our current design notebook (they aren’t the best pictures, but I think they show enough)

http://cl.ly/image/2m0P3R2H3r3p (Cover)

http://cl.ly/image/311h2O042N3z (Sample daily log)

http://cl.ly/image/171t3O3A0a3l (Sample flow chart)

http://cl.ly/image/3L3R2G3Y002S (CAD drawings)

[http://cl.ly/image/392W041p1s2P (Work calendar)

Feel free to comment on what we can change!](http://cl.ly/image/392W041p1s2P (Work calendar))

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looks good so far, i suggest you do a section about code, sensors, wiring … batteries etc … talk about why you did stuff, annotate, evaluate etc …

also … i do it everytime, a cortex wiring map

labelled controller with controls on

past designs/prototypes …

explain what problems you have had, and how you got around them/fixed them

talk about robot strategies … descoring, defensive, offensive, scoring …

size of robot ? —> fit under 15" ?

hope this helps