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What's wrong with electronic lab notebooks for bench work, and what would you hope to see in a 'notebook' that combines wet work with computational work?
by xkcd-sucks 9y ago
What's wrong with electronic lab notebooks for bench work, and what would you hope to see in a 'notebook' that combines wet work with computational work?
- _Wintermute 9y agoQuite often I want to sketch things, or stick in a paper printout from old-school lab-equipment. Both if these are a pain on a computer. With a lab book you can take it round with you from lab area to lab area or quickly jot something down. I suppose you could give each researcher a designated "lab-only" laptop, though waiting for software to load up etc just to write down a few numbers is a lot of hassle.
- sasvari 9y agoI use a cheap chromebook as a dedicated lab laptop. I set up a digital lab notebook with vimwiki, taskwiki and git, and sync to a git server (and other computers I use). I only have to open it up and vim is ready to jot down things.