Heh, and that was the most exciting of those bullet points for me! Provided there’s clues or something to send you in the right direction I think it’s a good way of making you engage with the environment, characters and situations more. It also throws up more ‘secret’ quests. It’s one of the things that made Anachronox so much fun to me a few years back because there was no mini-map, just a journal containing scraps of info.