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I run a computational lab, and I still use a paper notebook
by Fomite 9y ago
I 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.