I thought finding software to maintain a personal 'research notebook' was difficult but it seems like scientists have an even worse problem
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3878183/
<< Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs) are a common way of gathering raw, derived and observational data and are ubiquitous in many commercial settings, but relatively emergent in academia. .. However academia is concerned with progressing understanding by knowledge sharing and ELNs are not well suited to this..>>
@natecull oh man, ELNs in academia are such a clusterfuck. There's resistance to the idea before you start, the existing ELNs are almost all proprietary with zero interoperability, and the stuff we want to store is ridiculously diverse: small machine-readable files, massive files that can only be read by specific commercial software, copious notes handwritten on fumehood sashes and physical samples…
