[OWW-Discuss] Clarification of Help:Notebook

[Steven J. Koch]

Hi All,

I just noticed the Lab Notebooks advertisement on the main page.  It looks
great!  Very inviting, I think.

I do have a few comments, which are coming from the perspective of someone
who hasn't been following the development in the past few months.
Basically, when I read the help page, there are a lot of nice looking
things, but I don't know what to do.  I can contrast this to when I first
set up a lab page, which I was able to do easily by following the
step-by-step instructions.  I know a lot more about wikis now, but am not
clear when reading the Help:Notebook page.  Here're some points which may
not be obvious to those who already know what's going on:

1.	 It would be good to link to example notebook pages right at the top
of the help page.  It's not until the bottom of the page that screenshots
are shown, but even then the links are to images.  Maybe I'm missing
something obvious, but where do I see a working example?
a.	Along the same lines, if there are other related pages can these be
linked at the top of the help page?
2.	The steps are not obvious.  Without actually trying it yet, it seems
like the steps are 1, 2, 3 (listed vertically: notebook, project, entry) and
for each of these steps, we should do 1, 2, 3 (listed horizontally:
template, create, paste) .  I think it would be better to have the steps
listed out, similar to http://openwetware.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_lab_wiki 
3.	Are there supposed to be some templates on the "notebook page"? I
don't see it listed on the help page.
4.	When I click on the "my lab notebook" link at the top right of the
page, it goes to "Notebook:Steven J. Koch" whereas it seems like we're
supposed to put it in User: namespace? 

Does any of that make sense?

--Steve
www.openwetware.org/wiki/Koch_Lab



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