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Re:Using VimWiki as a distributed, encrypted lab notebook fo... by antidoh on Friday November 23, 2012 @02:20PM (#4823307)
Not to take away from any of the ideas, but (I believe) there is still no electronic substitute for a dated, numbered-pages paper notebook to establish that you did something and when you did it (for legal purposes).

Love these: http://www.amazon.com/Computation-Inches-Numbered-Quadrille-...

Re:Using VimWiki as a distributed, encrypted lab notebook fo... by markdennehy on Friday November 23, 2012 @02:29PM (#4823340)
Absolutely; and I keep mine still for doodles that become patent ideas (signed and dated), for taking cornell notes of meetings and phone calls, and that kind of thing. I prefer these though: http://www.leuchtturm1917.com/en/content/medium-notebook (and the dotted paper is more useful than the squared). Tried moleskins, tried Paper Blanks, tried a few others, but the 1917s are the best I've found...

...but they've become my first draft, rather than my only notebook. It's just too easy to grab a chunk of an email or a graph's png or a code snippet and lob it into the vimwiki; and it's where I work up most of the stuff that goes into papers or patents.

Re:Using VimWiki as a distributed, encrypted lab notebook fo... by cavilling_elite on Friday November 23, 2012 @10:13PM (#4824424)
I'm a big fan of Doane Paper. Lines AND Squares. http://doanepaper.com/
Re:Using VimWiki as a distributed, encrypted lab notebook fo... by jamessb on Saturday November 24, 2012 @12:20PM (#4825752)
I know some people who used an electronic system which printed out a barcode encoding a cryptographic hash of each entry, which could then be stuck in a paper notebook with numbered pages, and dated and witnessed.

This combined a legally admissible chronological record in physical form, with all the benefits of electronic records.