I won a new grant (yaay!) and dipping my toes in the role of PI in my university. For now, I will have a PhD, a post doc and a couple of masters students in my team.

In all my previous labs, everything was on paper and very poorly documented (…don’t ask). I myself used to use LaTeX to keep a “neat” labnote. Obviously, it is not easy to collaborate and work with others.

Any researchers here who have experience hosting their own e-lab book in their labs?

  • Günther Unlustig 🍄@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    27 days ago

    Obsidian or Logseq.

    I’ve used Logseq for my lab journal, thoughts, and whatsoever, and it works excellent for that.

    • You can link different things/ dates with each entry
    • Markdown
    • Functions and querys
    • Local
    • Very flexible
    • And you can find pretty much every thought you’ve ever had, nothing is lost.

    It can be tricky tho if you want to collaborate, because the sync isn’t perfect yet, but the devs are working really hard on it

  • Holli25@slrpnk.netEnglish
    3·
    28 days ago

    The group I did my PhD in used eLabFTW after I was gone. I heard only positive things and am trying to implement it in my current job (can not really selfhost as the IT department does all services). It should have a system to log experiments as well as have basic (maybe even more) inventory management. As far as I remember it dous not need any “big” hardware, so just using an older computer with a good backup strategy should work fine.