If your experience with electronics progresses at a normal rate
I don't have any professional experience; my electronics experience basically amounts to what I learned in a local tech school close to 20 years ago after high school (of which I have never used for employment), along with on-and-off again small projects here in there since then. This includes various small robotics experiments, along with various sundry homebrew VR hacking. Now I am working again on a robotics project; actually the largest electronics project I've ever undertaken - both in complexity and physical size.
I can read as well as design a schematic ok (something I need to brush up on is calculation of component values and such for proper sizing for the job/characteristics needed - right now, I pretty much make "educated guesses", and if a part gets too hot, or doesn't seem to be working the way I want it, I go back to the design and cipher on it a bit); I can transfer such a circuit to a breadboard as needed. So in my case, I wouldn't be laying out a schematic from a physical breadboard design, but going the opposite direction (with a graphical symbol set that is clear and mostly easy to understand for screenshots), in order to show someone how to lay out a circuit on a breadboard - could be very useful. But you are right; it would only be useful for certain sized circuits - once you got past a certain pin-count level or part level, it becomes less trivial to represent.
Some people do very well with gEDA. Other swear by Kicad...if you plan to design real PCBs in the future, your time would be better spent learning some other tool.
Thank you for the suggestion; I plan on taking it seriously - I will do some more research, into both gEDA and Kicad - I want to learn this end of the process better, and my simple h-bridge design would be a good circuit to learn how to design with a tool. I plan to keep following Fritzing's progress, I might even still try making a TO-3 transistor set for it - but I want to do more serious work, too.
