[OWW-Discuss] Does anyone have any tips on keeping your lab book on OWW?

[John Cumbers]

some good arguments, I can see why date-order is a little out-dated. (boom
boom)
John


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