Your lab notebook, connected
The notebook that links to everything else.
Write up your work and pull in everything it connects to: embed an image, drop in a table, and link a paragraph straight to the sample, image analysis, or run it describes. Two people can edit the same page at once, with live cursors and presence, so notes are written together in real time.
Mentions notify the right person, comments keep the discussion on the page, and version snapshots mean you can always see what a page said last week. Approval workflows turn a page into a signed-off record when you need one.
Paste an address, get the record's own card
Copy the address of a sample, sequence, protocol run, task, order, supplier, data table, flow dataset, or image collection and paste it into a sentence. A prompt names the record, and Yes drops that record's own card where you pasted, carrying its name. A data table's card shows its live rows. The write-up ends up holding the work rather than describing it, so a reader six months later opens the sample you meant.
Thirty-three kinds of content, from checklists to code
Press / on an empty line for the quick menu, or + for the full Insert view, which describes what each one does. Tables with their own style panel, side-by-side columns, checklists, code, callouts, graphs, and a progress bar that counts the checkboxes above it. The six you inserted last sit at the top of both menus.
See what changed since last week
Save version takes a snapshot as a major, minor, or patch change with release notes, starting at v1.0.0. Version history lists each one with what was added and removed, and compares any version with your draft or with the one before it, in plain English and as track changes. Restoring puts a version back as the working draft.
Comment on the line, sign off on the page
On a note a comment attaches to a specific paragraph, table, or image, so feedback lands where the problem is. The Activity panel covers comment, request review, approve, and request changes, and an approval can carry a reason such as needs verification. Edit a signed-off page and its approval flags for a fresh look, with the record of who approved what kept.
More in the Notes workspace
Writing a page
Images you can crop and open full screen
The whole image stays in the page and the crop chooses what shows, so you can change your mind. Full screen zooms and pans for a close look at a blot.
Move or copy a piece of a page
Send a paragraph, table, or image into another note or into a Planner task, creating the destination on the spot.
Linked data tables
Stay connected to the table in Data Tables and show the range of rows you choose.
Formatting and find and replace
Bold through superscript, four heading levels, text and highlight colors, indenting with Tab, and Cmd/Ctrl + F.
Templates, private or shared with the team
Keep 200 of your own and 500 in the team library, plus starters for western blot transfer, PCR, bacterial transformation, cell passaging, plasmid miniprep, and Gram staining.
Working together
Real-time collaboration
Two people type in a shared page at once, with live cursors, presence, and edits that merge.
Mentions that reach the inbox
An @ in a comment or in the page itself notifies your teammate with the surrounding text.
Private or shared, your call
Only a page's creator sees the toggle, so the decision to open a draft to the project stays with whoever wrote it.
Files and finding things
Notes and protocols in one place
A folder holds both, so an experiment keeps its recipe next to its results, and Convert to protocol moves a page between them with its comments and sign-offs.
Import Markdown, PDF, and Word
Drag documents onto the workspace, several at a time, and choose whether the batch lands as notes or as protocols.
Export to Markdown, Word, or PDF
One page or a selection of them, with side-by-side columns rendered as real columns in PDF and Word.
Status, sorting, and full-text search
Six statuses from Draft to Archived, sorting by date, name, or status, and Cmd/Ctrl + K across the whole project.
Learn more: Write lab notes·How your work connects·vs. LabArchives·vs. SciNote
Start your first notebook page
Write, embed, and link to the samples and analysis behind the work. Free for you and one collaborator.
Which exposure is this? The 27 kDa band saturates on the 60 s film.
Re-imaged at 5 s and the band is clean. Happy to sign this off.