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Or, you know, an actual notebook.
by ajarmst 9y ago
Or, you know, an actual notebook.
- matthewhall 9y agoYes
- _e 9y agoNothing is easier than using real paper and a pen.
- Blahah 9y agounless there are computational aspects to your work, which these days there usually are
- mbreese 9y agoBut all of these ELNs are targeting replacing wet lab notebooks. I tried many ELNs and even wrote one, but I don't think there is any replacing paper notebooks for wet lab research. Even when you have some computational aspect, you can print out a figure or table and attach it to a page in the notebook. (Now reproducible dry lab notebooks are a whole other matter)
- Fomite 9y agoI run a computational lab, and I still use a paper notebook
- Blahah 9y agoI did wet and dry work in my PhD and before, and found a paper notebook to be incredibly inconvenient. Finding things, referring to things, including data or code - all very laborious if it's even effective. I can imagine keeping thoughts or notes like this, but not my lab book. I use monthly markdown files where I can link out to code, commits, issues, include figures etc.
- Fomite 9y agoI found the opposite to be true - electronic lab notebooks were almost immediately abandoned, or in one case turned into an illegible wall of madness. To each their own I suppose.