Lab notebook on my mac and or iPad

[Germwise]

Hey guys,

I'm a molecular biologist and I'm not very organized when it comes to my experiments. I do so many that I find it very difficult to remember what exact conditions I used on a certain day to do a certain experiment.

One of the ways scientists keep track of this is with Laboratory Notebooks.

I'm wondering if any of you guys who are also scientists can suggest a good software to replace my lab notebook.

I'd like it to work on my mac and a bonus if it would work on a ipad (might actually get me to buy one again).

Basically I need to be able to make several bullet points for each experiment, and do lots of quick formatting including some canned text like and pictures.

For example:

07/14/2010


PCR of TZF1 for Cloning

Reaction

19.1ul water
2.5ul buffer
.5 Taq
.5 FP
.5 RP
1 template

Conditions: 30 cycles 52 C

Results:

***picture of my gel*** with annotations (arrows on top)


Next experiment .....

etc etc


Please help!

 

[Frosties]

I have found Excel to be a good help as it is always there anyway.

 

[balamw]

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Maybe something like circusponies notebook can be adapted for this kind of use?



Check this thread for limitations of this approach

http://forums.circusponies.com/categories/9/posts/9443



B

Edit: or maybe evernote? http://www.macresearch.org/electronic_lab_notebook

 

[miles01110]

Text files and Finder work pretty well.

 

[Germwise]

I just wanted to share with you guys that I started using Evernote for the purposes of keeping a lab notebook and its fantastic.

I have my MBP on my office desk, an old PC laptop on my bench and evernote on my phone.

Whenever I finish a gel or need to make an observation, I whip out my phone, take a picture and have it automatically uploaded to evernote. On my PC laptop I type out modifications to my protocol and add things I need to do.

At the end of the day I go to my mac where everything has been agregated and I organize it and tag it. Perfect searchable notebook.

Used free trial and ended up buying premium service.

 

[Clete2]

Check out Evernote.