2.7  A catalog used as an electronic lab book

You could set up a catalog to record data directly as you gather it - so it's already structured and in the computer, and you don't need to type information from paper notes. An example catalog structure could be:

Using Catalyzer as an electronic lab book

One advantage of using Catalyzer (over paper and spreadsheets) is that you can make links from your notes directly to data and analysis files, and start to build up forms for the data you need to gather for each experiment.