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I know several scientists with PhDs whose workflow involved Windows 7 sticky notes to an extent that would make the average HN reader pull out their hair in sho

I know several scientists with PhDs whose workflow involved Windows 7 sticky notes to an extent that would make the average HN reader pull out their hair in shock. We're talking about well-published in Nature experts. Sure, eventually they publish results with LaTeX, but a lot of intermediate steps will involve Excel/Word or even something more primitive. It is what it is.

teleforce 4y ago
Your story reminds me of this research lab with state-of-the-art 10 Trillion FPS camera. From the video they apparently are still using Windows 7 for the measurement set up [1]. They're publishing in Nature and most probably using Excel for some of their data processing workflow. My former research lab is, however, mainly using Igor Pro software running on Windows. It is waves based professional data processing software tool that has friendly GUI and intuitive table interfaces not unlike Excel but geared towards scientists and engineers [2]. [1]Filming the Speed of Light at 10 Trillion FPS: https://youtu.be/7Ys_yKGNFRQ https://youtu.be/7Ys_yKGNFRQ [2]IGOR Pro: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGOR_Pro https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGOR_Pro