Ask HN: Lab notebooks?
Are lab notebooks worthwhile for scientists? What about computer scientists? What about programmers? Should they be hand written as rice.edu suggests? http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bioslabs/tools/notebook/notebook_examples.html
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I'm speaking as a programmer and a sysadmin.
Lab notebook as it is may not be that useful, because it gives mostly constrained note fields set. But if we extend it to a notebook with a sheets of paper that are blank, barring possibly a distinguished header field, well, I use one every day.
Sysadmin could use several types of worksheets, with fields and checkboxes designed to aid in particular tasks, but those would be exactly that: sheets, not whole notebooks.
Lab notebook as it is may not be that useful, because it gives mostly constrained note fields set. But if we extend it to a notebook with a sheets of paper that are blank, barring possibly a distinguished header field, well, I use one every day.
Sysadmin could use several types of worksheets, with fields and checkboxes designed to aid in particular tasks, but those would be exactly that: sheets, not whole notebooks.