Laboratory note book for my new research group (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

16 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I won a new grant (yaay!) and dipping my toes in the role of PI in my university. For now, I will have a PhD, a post doc and a couple of masters students in my team.

In all my previous labs, everything was on paper and very poorly documented (...don't ask). I myself used to use LaTeX to keep a "neat" labnote. Obviously, it is not easy to collaborate and work with others.

Any researchers here who have experience hosting their own e-lab book in their labs?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Obsidian or Logseq.

I've used Logseq for my lab journal, thoughts, and whatsoever, and it works excellent for that.

You can link different things/ dates with each entry
Markdown
Functions and querys
Local
Very flexible
And you can find pretty much every thought you've ever had, nothing is lost.

It can be tricky tho if you want to collaborate, because the sync isn't perfect yet, but the devs are working really hard on it

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Also with the excalidraw plugin, hand drawing images and such is also possible.

It is not as good for flowcharts and diagrams since there are only like 5 non-specified font sizes, but also usable for notes

this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2025

52 points (98.1% liked)

Selfhosted

49457 readers

684 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.
No spam posting.
Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.
Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.
Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).
No trolling.

Resources:

selfh.st Newsletter and index of selfhosted software and apps
awesome-selfhosted software
awesome-sysadmin resources
Self-Hosted Podcast from Jupiter Broadcasting

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]