Writing Your First LabNote

Let's write your first experiment note in LabNote!

Create LabNote

First, create My Project in the LabSpace. Then, when you click the + button and choose Create New Note from the project, you now have your first LabNote ready!

Write in LabNote

Click and open the new LabNote file.

Prepare Material blocks

Before you record the experiment, you need to prepare Material blocks from the Lab Inventory. There are five types of materials: Chemicals, Nucleic acids, Animals, Organisms, and Cell lines. 

1. On the left sidebar, click + Add material button to add Material blocks. 
2. For example, for Chemicals, you can search different chemicals in Add Chemicals tab. 
3. Then, load the chemical materials you want (Ex: Search “Iron(III) acetylacetonate”).
4. You can edit basic information about the material manually. 
5. Then, by clicking the Add button, you can now find the new material block in the Lab Inventory. 

Add Procedure

Now, you need to create a new Procedure section. In the Procedure, you can add Process and Material blocks. 

1. Click + Add procedure button in Bench to create a new Procedure section.
2. In the Procedure, write experiment steps in texts.
3. For example, you can write a synthesis experiment like “Synthesis of zinc-doped iron oxide nanoparticle.”
4. Click Enter to save. 
5. Now, you have the first Procedure section, which is labeled as "1" automatically. 

Add Process blocks

Next, you need to create a new Process block to record the actions of your experiment. The Process block is created within the Procedure section. You can add Material blocks in the Process blocks. 

1. Click + Add process button right under the Procedure section to add a new Process block.
2. Then, you can see the right sidebar appears for adding the new Process block.
3. You can choose among the pre-defined Processes or generate a new Process (Ex. Try creating "Heating"). 
4. You can freely add or remove conditions in the Process blocks. 

Add Material blocks via drag-and-drop

In the Process block (in the Procedure section), you can now add the Material blocks you prepared at the beginning. Simply drag the Material blocks in the Lab Inventory and drop them into the Drop zone in the Process block to record.