QPQ Natural Log Lab Notebook Software

About Natural Log™

Natural Log™ is a quick, easy, intuitive way to collect and publish information:

Natural Log™'s web-based, so you can be started in under five minutes
Natural Log™ captures both text/narrative information and scalar data in one interface, so you don't waste time coördinating between two applications
Natural Log™ records and time-stamps your text and data, leaving a record of your progress†

Put most simply, Natural Log™ is a data-enabled Wiki, with the ability to expand to accommodate analytics, raw data capture. It's all part of QPQ's Quick and Dirty Philosophy for lab tools: solve the simplest problem first.

Initial Data Entry:

A Note Like This:

Data can be entered in the data entry panel, or simply typed in free-form within the Wiki itself, along with data definition:

Precipitate:(Reading,Exp1,Exp2)[1,111.94,94.37|
2,102.5,90.62|3,104,93.25|4,95,100.75|5,99.5,102.75|
6,97.75,102.25|7,92.75,100.5|8,87.19,100.75|
9,96.75,100.75|10,100.44,99.31]

This data entry immediately collapses to a simple reference, "{{Precipitate}}", which can then be referred to throughout the lab notebook and edited (or expanded) in a data grid such as:

<date> <time>: First Data

Here's some of the initial data we're getting from the two experiments:

Becomes This:

Jan 1, 2009 11:43 AM: First Data

Here's some of the initial data we're getting from the two experiments:

Try Natural Log™ Now!
(in just two minutes!)

1) Browse the Guest Example Notebook

2) Edit a test notebook of your own -- from scratch.

...and when you've checked it out:

3) Create a new account to jot down your thoughts and data.

† A full history of text is recorded; data modifications are noted, but only the most recent data is kept in order to conserve storage capacity.