What activity helped Leonardo document his ideas?

Answer 1

Keeping extensive notebooks and sketchbooks...

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/euromanuscripts/leonardo.html

http://www.unmuseum.org/leosketch.htm

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=5000

http://interconnected.org/home/more/davinci/

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5000

Trivia: Leonardo was ambidextrous, though he preferred his left-hand, and wrote in his notebooks backwards, from right to left, so he wouldn't drag his left hand through the ink as he wrote. This is also known as mirror writing.

Answer 2

Ummmm...I am a massive Davinci fan, and I don't really understand what you are asking here.

I think he documented everything! If you ever get to see the actual notebooks, there are shopping lists next to technical diagrams. His work is not as organised as most believe. He wrote as ideas came into his head, not because he wanted to document them for future generations. In fact, that is why the entire thing is written in mirror writing, Leonardo didn't want anyone reading what he had written down, incase it got into the wrong hands.

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Answer 3

Weeeed Maannn

Answer 4

I'd say.....writing. But that actually IS documenting.... so ...
... 'dipping his pen in the ink' is an activity that would be helpful.

I hope that this is the answer as I can not come up with an alternative.