notebookEntry files

[yaslena]

Hi everyone,

(@henokemp I'm Lena, another member of the Lives in Transit project, currently working on the lit-madness storyline)
I have forked this repository a few days ago and would like to help building it. One thing that I noticed when I was playing this storyline, was the description of how notebookEntry files are supposed to work (chapter1/T1.3/textComponent1.json):

If you want to add something to the notebook there must be a notebookEntry file in the page folder. It defines the title of the entry, be it just a picture or the contents of an exercise, and if it's not in the folder Marugoto won't be able to proceed to the next page as it's looking (desperately) for the title of the entry.

Technically, you don't need to create a new notebookEntry every time you want to add components to the notebook. If no new notebookEntry is created, but the components are set to showInNotebook = true, then they will be added to the previous notebook entry. This is also briefly (and somewhat cryptically) mentioned in the short Wiki:

If you don't add new notebook entry file on specific page but you added this properties in your files, then components/exercises will be added to the last created notebook entry file

You can see how this works in other storylines, for example Plantation Lives:
In chapter1/2.1.6 there is a mail1.json file whose showInNotebook field is set to true. ("Block Seminar preparation" mail by Prof. Moira) but there is no notebookEntry file in 2.1.6. Therefore, if you answer this email directly after receiving it, your response will simply be added to the previous notebookEntry: "Sugar machinery abstract AHR" (on page 2.1.4.1).
If you answer it later in the game on page 2.2.8 (as it is intended), then it will be added to the notebookEntry on that page "Email to Prof Moira (Notes on Hall)."

I would therefore suggest that I slightly modify the notebookEntry explanation, as soon as all the games are running smooth again.