Brand Design Style in InDesign

Hi Guys
As a graphic designer for different customers, I feel that I need to get a good way to register the brand designs I create or that I have to use for my clients (also those who had a brend design before but came to me recently).
Now, I was wondering how you guys create brand design books or if they are easy tools or... to do so?
It might sound stupid but I guess that, in 2013, there should be more easy ways but writing everything down in a new InDesign document? For instance the color bars and CMYK-codes you want to show in that document or file and so on.
I now use Swatches and Swatch libraries, Paragraph styles and so on, but isn't there something else too to easy give a resume just like a brand design book?
Thanks in advance
Bob

I just heard about this at the recent PePCon conference in Austin, but I think you might want to check out this website:
http://www.behance.net
This is a community of graphic designers who use Behance as an online portfolio. Adobe has bought it recently and it's being incorporated into the Adobe Creative Cloud.

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