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unless there are computational aspects to your work, which these days there usually are
by Blahah 9y ago
unless 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.