Anybody use one of these? I really suck at keeping an orderly notebook. I do keep one and I have been using it, but it's utter fucking chaos. I'm thinking a software notebook may encourage better note taking. As in recording the important things I may not think about and mainly by reminding me that I should check these things. I'm really bad about thinking I will remember something and I know damn well I'm not gonna remember, but I forget that I won't remember.

Can anybody recommend a favorite? I know about things like evernote, which is cool and great n all, but not quite what I had in mind. I was hoping to find something more chemistry/lab oriented.

Hmmm, now I'm wondering what kinda damage I could do with spreadsheets....

There's software designed for chemists, such as the attached freeware which is called Laborant      Corrosive vapors will ruin paper, clothing and computers

this is the ONLY way to do it.

Heavy encryption on a linux machine... I would put a SSD HD in it, magnetics will fail from HCL gas exposure instantly

it is a pain in the ass, but so is the life story of your synthesis procedures being read by the cops

This is what I currently do. Thats what cost me all my data recently. Adding another luks partition wiped out my partition table and I have tried every which way to restore it, aint happenin'.


lugh: Thanks, I will give this a try. I assume it will run under wine.

Hmm...I might just have to check that out.

Perhaps more secure, than the method I use, a very old, occultist's alphabet, which mind you, has no symbols compatible with modern chemistry, although the ancient alchemical symbols for some of the elements can be useful. Most unlikely to be intelligible by your average pig, but strong encryption, combined, for anything highly sensitive with steganography, I think should be yet more useful. At any rate, my current lab notebook, although not directly referencing any illegal substance would really seriously make the porker work like a dog for his donuts.

I don't suppose anybody is aware of any security software that can be configured, in conjunction with a suitable smartcard reader (which I have already) on which a long, private key, in text file format could be matched before information can bee decrypted?

One thats compatible with a microSD card would be perfect, if such a beast exists (and of course, I would make damn sure to firewall the program off, both in, and outbound), as an entire team of bacon could literally take the house apart, brick by brick, and never find it. And just in case of accident, a spare, cloned card could be taken somewhere, sealed in a film canister, or something of the like, double layered plastic bag, under inert gas, with a second, in another place somewhere, and either buried, inserted into a hollow tree, or otherwise put somewhere nobody who doesn't know exactly where to look, will have a cat in hell's chance of finding it.

Paranoid....maybe, but sure as hell its going to stop anybody from bruteforcing their way in, at least, in the lifetime of the owner if sufficiently powerful encryption is used. Perhaps by the NSA, CIA or KGB/FSB, but a pig shop and their nasty little pack of arselickers? you have to be fucking kidding me. Even the three letter agencies would likely have a hell of a time on their hands, and I doubt that there are many, if any clandestine chemists that are going to attract the attention of that sort of prying eyes.

At least here, legally, the fascist twats can force you to reveal your password(s)

If its accessible only by smartcard, and you hand over one, regular password, and then say 'I have not been able to find the microSD the secondary security system is stuck on for a long time, despite trying hard as hell' then they will be hard pushed to prove the 'beyond reasonable doubt' that is the benchmark for most court systems. Even if you are telling them a larger pack of pork pies (pun intended:P) than ever passed the lips of even george W bush, and of course, there is no way in hell, that they can prove that there are a handful of spares, hidden in deepest, darkest, butt-fuck middle-of-bloody-nowhere.

I don't have 20 grand to spend, lawyer-wise the only ones I am going to get, are the duty solicitors that by law, the less well off must be given access to here in the UK. I have enough for the flight it will take me to see my loved one, still saving enough to live off, enough to show her a good meal or ten, and enough to create the ring to propose with. Aside from that, I have enough to eat off, to keep clothed, keep the cat in his dinner, get up to what I want to get upto as far as lab work goes, a few home comforts, and thats about it really.  And besides, the population of more than the one local pig shop (which I would quite happily turn into an abbatoir, to bee quite honest) really have it in for me in a personal way.

Do not get over-confident, when it comes to the filth, and even the smaller things that are verboten, especially if you live in the US, a great deal of the svinya are vindictive, oxygen-embezzling whoresons who want nothing more than the power to lord it over other people and the 'right' to swagger around whilst armed to the teeth. Wouldn't be the first, or the last either, that really does hope for the day when they get to put a couple of rounds between some bugger's eyes.

Don't get me wrong, I want to see the rapists, paedophiles, animal abusers and muggers dumped where they belong, with other such bipedal, semi-reptilian filth, but otherwise, they can jolly well get to fuck, sod off, and leave me the hell alone.

I have truecrypt already installed

Okay, so I'm getting ready to pull the trigger on this digital notebooking shit. I just have to decide which ELN to use. Looking at the different ones, again, I see that some of them are meant for collaboration. I have heard talk of making a private board and I know there are already some sources of info that are not available to everyone, but has anyone thought of going this route to collaborate? Seems fucking perfect to me. It's almost like microsoft's cloud bullshit, but with amateur scientists and their work allowing them to seamlessly yet selectively share info. This would be fucking cooler than shit. One of the notebooks I have really liked so far is call collaboratory. It's a client program that accesses a server program called SAM (Scientific Annotation Middleware). One of the hardcore computer science guys here that also has the trust of the community from being around for a long time and actually contributing should run a SAM on their local machine and then certain people can access it with their collaboratory clients.

Vesp, can you get lugh on that asap? Thanks!

The closestt thing I can find to what I want is html based. Kinda sucks, I know, but I can't find shit else. LabLog is geared towards neuroscience and I wont be a neuro scientist for at least another year.

My question, how do I host the html on an luks partition then access it with my browser? I have never tried before, so maybe I wont have to do anything but mount the partition, Any advice? I will be doing this today my record keeping isn't getting any better and my notebook is fast becoming a confusing place to be.

Here's what I'm looking at
hxxp://biochemlabsolutions.com/ELN.html

Thanks for the suggestion on the CD, definitely will look at that tonight. I already have apache running on two local machines. I'm not so worried about serving them as I am serving something that is encrypted before the server even touches it.

Edit: I'm not worried about serving them at all, I'm worried about my browser being able to make it out.