

Setting up of calendar pages (page/week or page/day) helped for similar chronological note taking as in paper lab books, as well as customised tags, protocol templates and image integration. Following individual OneNote training to show the capabilities and limitations, we made OneNote available in every lab space and assisted with integrating the office printers & scanners ( email paper notes to OneNote). It was important to understand the exact individual notes work flow of each user, particularly for paper-only group members. Some comments on each of these aspects, but feel free to get in touch if you want to know more details. Individual transition process paper -> electronic.Finally, we have short-term internship students, one-year Honours students, PhD students, postdocs, research assistants and the lab head working on individual and team projects.Ĭonsequently, our challenges were (and partially still are):

Furthermore, some team members use Mac OS and others Windows. I want to share our experience so far, with the challenges and solutions we’ve come up.įirst up, we’ve had a mixed combination of existing lab book styles from entirely paper-only, paper & word-file combinations, to paper & OneNote and finally OneNote only. After writing about how to use OneNote as an electronic lab book, we have migrated our lab group from paper notes to OneNote over the last year.
