Sim Memories/Stories - Do You Create Them?

I'm too lazy to do anything more than take screenshots.

Screenshots and my own mind for the memories.

It depends on the household. For my main household that I've been playing ever since I started playing TS4, I do try to keep a picture and story record for important or significant events, as well as taking (way too many) screenshots to look back at every now and then. I don't write too much, just a few sentences or small paragraph to support the picture. I also have an ongoing story plan that I follow; crossing off and adding to as I go in Word. For other households that I occasionally play I just take screenshots when the mood takes me, e.g. if something important happens or just looks cute and put them in folders. Most of my sims are also often based on characters and/or stories that I summarise in my 'Plot Bunnies' Word document, which I keep in case I want to / get the chance to write. So yeah, I generally keep some form of record, but I also try not to get too bogged down by it and just enjoy the game.

I have spreadsheets to record this kind of stuff and I take lots of screenshots and organize them in proper folders.

I just wrote stories on family background info or on my notepad, I used to take screenshot for story telling purpose without me having to write anything back in sims 3.

I just take screenshots. I'm to lazy or non creative to make up stories. :D

I usually keep track of the stories I write for my sims with good old fashioned pen and paper. lol. Sometimes i'll play out a story i've already written or am in the process of writing and sometimes its the other way around. I also take a lot of screenshots to keep track of the generations and special moments.

I use a combination. First and foremost, I have a physical paper book. I record skills, career, major relationships, club membership and aspiration progress on a one Sim and one week/season to a page basis.

Then I do take screenshots. Which I use in a story blog. Which I share in the appropriate section of these forums.


I would have loved to use the in-game memory system {as well} but I take far too many screenshots for it to work. Especially since I’ve recently changed from one family/household to four in rotation. I find it a big issue with the memory system that the screenshots ALL have to be in that one folder.

My sims are often based on stories I've written so I know their storeies. I take screenshots though and sometimes Mark my favourites as an in game memory for the sim.

I have a notebook that I've been using since TS2! It used to be mostly a collection of first names, like a baby name book, to help me name my sims, then it included various cheats, but now that sims don't have memories and their family trees disappear after a certain number of generations, I've started including these. I'm on my first legacy that's gone more than 3 generations (currently on gen 13!), and I've really wanted to remember all the previous generations and their stories so I'm starting to write those down now too, just little bits of info to help remember them ;)