How to use this Notebook
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Thanks for considering using my Notebook for your researches!
In this page, I am going to explain how each section is intended to be use, however I invite you to adapt the pages to you.
Notion is a great tool that allows to create a calendar plan for your experiment and to directly a report. Thanks to the possibility to change view, the calendar plan can be viewed as a list and be further filtered for experiment type, allowing you to focus on a sequence of experiments in few clicks.
A literature and protocol library can also be created and linked to each experiment. This allows you to speed up the writing process by linking the protocol, and to connect important articles to one specific experiment. With this Notebook, there is also the chance to keep track of meetings.
I personally love Notion and I highly suggest to learn further how to take fully advantage of this tool. There are many free resources to get started.
This notebook is designed by a biotechnologist, therefore it fit mainly to biologist, chemist, physicist, …., whose work mainly consists of experiment - literature research - result reporting. For researchers working in different fields, may still find still template useful, but some changes might be needed.
Here, you can log the material you have stored somewhere. It is mainly thought for samples who need cold storage, but it can be used for everything you think it might be useful. Materials that are the result of one experiment written in the experiment plan, can be linked.
It is connected to the calendar and pages appear here if the “Notebook” is ticked in one single entry. (TIP: Tick it, only for complete entries!)
The experiments are grouped per month and ordered from the oldest to the newest (exactly, as you would open a real notebook)
“Reports and Meetings” view shows the pages that have been labeled as “Data analysis”, “Report” and “Meetings”. Please, do not delete those labels, but feel free to rename them. Those labels indicates that these pages are important to keep in your notebook, but you don´t want to mix them with the experiments.
Useful for writing protocols and link them to entries in the Notebook using “@ “
Each time you link a protocol to a page with “@ ”, a backlink is created in the protocol. This means that in the protocol page you can see how many time you used the protocol and for which experiment (this is terrific useful!!)