Findings: Your lab notebook, reinvented

Looks really cool. How do you simulate the permanence that paper laboratory notebooks have? I was always trained to write out everything, and if I ended up not using a particular procedure, striking it out so it was obvious it wasn&#x27;t used but could be read by a third party whenever necessary (for legal reasons).<p>There&#x27;s always the honor code, but my understanding was the lack of paper trail is one of the big issues with switching to computational means for keeping track of scientific results.

Great idea! You should find a partner to print to physical books - this may be a simpler export option (and added feature) while you work on your sqlite-based export. You should provide some sort of verification that notes that I claim to have entered on a certain date were indeed entered on that date, for inventions (although the US is now first-to-file). And you should allow me to scribble notes on a tablet.

Makes no sense to do this as anything but a web app, IMO. Certainly not as a Mac-specific native app.

How do they avoid lock-in? The site makes no mention of the concept whatsoever, and I don&#x27;t see anything about an ability to export, in a non-bespoke form, all the data you&#x27;ve painstakingly collected in Findings.