some good arguments, I can see why date-order is a little out-dated. (boom boom)<br>John<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Barry Canton</b> <<a href="mailto:bcanton@mit.edu">
bcanton@mit.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi John, I keep my lab notebook on a mediawiki installation (private
<br>because I try to organize the rest of my life on it too:)). Right<br>now, I just have a page for each day, where each day is a subpage of<br>each month which is a subpage of each year to aid navigation.<br><br>So currently, my lab notebook is organized chronologically. I've been
<br>thinking that since my lab notebook is a website, that I should really<br>organize it by project and just add dates at each particular step of<br>the project. The reason being that when reading over a project it is<br>
much easier if that project is described on one page or a set of pages<br>rather than distributed over a set of chronologically ordered pages<br>that aren't necessarily consecutive. We are much more likely to ask -<br>
"How did I do project X?" than to ask - "What did I do in November<br>2004?". If each project is annotated with the dates I did particular<br>actions, I can always search to find out what I did on a given day if
<br>need be. I accept that you could organize by date and then search for<br>all instances of "Project X" but that seems like a more awkward<br>approach assuming that you normally want to read about a project than
<br>about a set of dates.<br><br>Seems to me the reason for organizing things chronologically is that<br>it is the only easy solution if you are using paper or even a word<br>document for you lab notebook. Otherwise it seems somewhat inferior
<br>to the notebook organized by project.<br><br>I'd love to hear if anyone has any experience with, or comments on, this idea.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Barry<br><br>On 1/31/07, John Cumbers <<a href="mailto:johncumbers@gmail.com">
johncumbers@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Does anyone have any tips on keeping your lab book on OWW? If typing notes<br>> into a page, do you keep one page on edit and keep saving? Do you use an<br>> external editor? Do you write in wordpad and then paste into the wiki?
<br>> Any tips appreciated, I've tried all the above and each one is a little<br>> painful in its own way..<br>> cheers,<br>> John<br>><br>><br>> --<br>> John Cumbers, Graduate Student in Computational Biology
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