I don't get confused by it, but I do find it a little bit distracting. My eyes are usually on the menu when the page changes and then suddenly I see it jump to the other side of the page. I think it would be more consistent if it stayed put, but that's just one opinion.

I giggle like a schoolgirl every time I see that. Keep on the good work, I'm really enjoying the game.

I believe this was addressed earlier too.

I'd love to have this too, but as I said before, this isn't as trivial as you might think, due to the random deviation added to a project's duration. I don't want to give away that deviation instantly, because then people could just set up the same project multiple times and go with the fastest one. It'll have to be something like, display the non-deviated completion time at the beginning, and slowly transition into a more accurate estimate as the project progresses.

Fixed.

Should be fixed now. Try it.

Update time!

Notes should now finish, although it may take some time to write longer ones.

The reason writing takes in-game time is twofold.

First of all, in cantrII, I found the sheer amount of notes and the casual way in which people exchanged them unrealistic and disruptive of the role playing experience. I've seen people do entire conversations using notes, at the same speed others would talk. Copying a note takes no time at all in cantrII, even if the note is in fact a huge book - you could make a dozen Bibles (or Books of the Onion or whatever) in a matter of seconds, while working on something else. In real life, having to resort to writing instead of talking significantly impacts the communication, and I want it to be similar in the game. In other words, writing should be significantly more expensive than talking.

The second reason is that I'm thinking about modelling writing skills. Someone who has good reading & writing skills will finish notes within seconds, someone with a lower skill level might take longer, and someone completely illiterate could be prevented from reading and writing notes altogether (showing text in notes as "lorem ipsum" or "blah blah blah" or something like that, only revealing the length of the note, but not the content).

I also made it so you can't drop notes or give them away until you're done writing. The reason the note is in your inventory goes like this: Normally, when you start a writing project, you write on an object that is, well, writeable - a note, a booklet, a book, or maybe something else; however, since "paper" is a splittable resource, the engine cannot allow writing on paper directly. To allow writing on paper without burdening you with having to create a "turn paper into note" project, a special case has been added that allows selecting "paper" for writing. When you do this, a note is created for you behind the scenes, and the writing project is attached to that note.

Sounds a bit complicated, but workable.
I think your reasons are good.

Well now we have paper and I have written my first note, maybe the first note in the world? I hope people will do some creative stuff with booklets and stuff.

A few ideas on completion time estimates: (from someone who never played cantr or this game)
1) Give an inaccurate estimate and also
2) Update the given estimate only after some progress (like every 10%)
3) Split each project into milestones (maybe one for each 10%) and only show time until the next milestone (and instead of choosing random completion time for the whole project, randomize each milestone so that even optimizing the first milestone [which is all the you can see when you start the project] won't help much since the other milestone will have a bigger effect)
4) In relation to 3, you could even have variable and logical milestones that you'd expect on the project, for example a "shed" project might have:
0% - started
10% - dug foundations
18% - foundations filled with concrete
25% - support pillars connected
60% - walls attached to supports
75% - roof built
100% - roof shingled
Maybe even abandoning a project at different milestones could lave you with different results.

Slartibartfast has some good ideas. Too bad none of the projects have milestones that would make sense though. Other than the repeating stuff (like when a cycle is done, make a note of that)

The First Note has been written. We must travel the world and spread its message!

Well, my one character that was actually interacting with folk got left behind. Now he's making the tools needed to make paper. Once done, I don't know what I want him to do.

Maybe I'll make a beggar or something, and have him focus on just finding folk and asking for stuff. I expect him to be the first to die when that system is in place.

"20 of paper"

heh. I wonder how easy it would be to fix that.

Fixed. Should now say "20 sheets of paper".

The intention is to always show the landscape type you're currently standing or travelling on - as soon as you start travelling, it should display the landscape type of the map pixel you're currently on. I'm not 100% certain that this works as intended though, but that's what it should be like. I'll go investigate.