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12.2  An electronic notebook

If you need to record structured information as you work, you can choose to write on paper and type into the computer later.

You could also set up a custom catalog and get the information into the computer at source - and minimise transcription errors. Using the Resource links, you can maintain references to documents in Word, spreadsheets with results, and images and data files.

Once the information is a catalog, you can search and browse it, and combine information from multiple experiments. If you need to share subsets of your data with colleagues, the hard work of annotating it will already have been done, and you can send them a weblink or the catalog itself.