The top header with a blue background is where you can see and edit the metadata: project, title, aims, rating and thumbnail (currently only showing a default icon). Under the tab, there are two main sections.
You can thus open a subset of your experiments in tabs, to make it easier to go back to them as needed by simply selecting the corresponding tab. To open an experiment, double-click on the card, which also creates a tab in the title bar. This menu can also be used to rename the currently selected project, and to create a new project (project deletion is coming soon!). This allows to filter based on projects, using the popup menu on the top left of the experiment cards.
Each experiment can be assigned to a specific project (see “Opening an experiment” below). This is a great way to repeat an interesting result that can be published with confidence. This will create a complete copy, including a copy of the files you may have inserted. If you have selected an experiment card, or already have an experiment opened, you can also choose to duplicate the experiment. When you are browsing your experiments, you can simply create a new one using the '+' button in the title bar, or using the File menu. The completed experiments still show the title and a simple calendar strip, and are simply sorted based on time.Ĭreating an experiment. An experiment is automatically moved to the completed section, when there are no more task to be done today or in the future. You typically switch to the “completed” experiments when you need to review your past work, for instance to prepare a report, an article or a presentation. You can mark the task done by clicking on the checkmark on the left side of the task (to undo, use the circular arrow icon on the right side).Ĭompleted experiments. The bottom of an experiment card displays the next task to perform. For experiments with task running today, a different color is used, and the circle representing today in the calendar strip gets filled as you make progress throgh your day. In the calendar strip, days with content are shown in a darker color, and days in the past are filled. Findings displays a simple summary of each of them: the title, a simplified calendar strip and the next task. These are simply the experiments still running and requiring your attention.
When going through your day or planning your week, you will typically show the “ongoing” experiments. You can easily toggle between ongoing and completed experiments using the segmented button on top of the experiment cards. The list of visible experiments can be filtered based on the project they belong to (see more on projects below), whether they are still ongoing or are already completed, and finally based on the simple search string. Inside this view, each experiment is represented by a “card”. All your experiments are displayed in the main ‘Experiments’ view, which you can select by clicking the flasks icon on the top left of the window. Because Findings is running on a computer, there are many ways you can view an experiment and interact with it, depending on the context, and depending on what you are trying to achieve.Įxperiment library. In Findings, an experiment is a document where you log the steps you follow and store the results. In the lab, an experiment aims to answer a simple scientific question. Findings is a good fit for “academic” research, where new assays and new types of experiments are designed and used every day, and where flexibility is key.įindings ambition is simple: making your computer THE tool to run experiments and keep lab records so that results can later be reproduced, assembled and published effortlessly. There is something great about paper and the freedom and flexibility it affords, however since 2014 paper has started to show its limits in areas where computers are taking over such as storing results, analysing data, searching, replicating, sharing, preserving, and more. Lab notebooks are crucial when running experiments to keep track of what one is doing so that results can later be reproduced, assembled and published.
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User Guideįindings is a Mac electronic lab notebook designed for scientists that aims to replace the paper lab notebook still in use in most research labs.
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