Can the story in this game progress without discovering secret notes and diaries?

Parasaurolophus

Seriously, is there any other way? I just finished the quest in West Weald with Mizzik. An interesting setup, but the entire resolution is built on notes again.

TaSheen

Those are the ones I like best.

Elvenheart

I don’t mind them as plot devices, but the ones I find the most funny are the ones that say destroy this note after you read it so this information will not fall into the hands of our enemies!

IsharaMeradin

A lot of base game quests that had notes and journals associated with them just put them in the player's inventory without really telling the player they were there. ** Then these notes and journals were not available to be read after the quest was completed. So, if one did not read them while in the inventory, they missed out on completing their eidetic memory section.

ZOS has taken efforts to supply copies of those aforementioned notes and journals somewhere near either the start or the end locations of the associated quest. In more recent zones, rather than just giving the reading materials to the player in the hopes that they remember to read them, they have incorporated them directly into the quest itself. It is a nice QOL addition for those that want to have at least opened if not read the complete eidetic memory section.

** NOTE: Some NPCs would state that they were giving you something. And there may have been on some occasions an upper right notification indicating it was added to inventory.