Keeping a Lab Notebook

Keeping a good lab notebook is an essential skill for every scientist to learn.
Here are a few suggestions to help get you started, but please check with your mentor to see if they have any lab-specific notebook policies.

• Practical advice on why and how to keep a good notebook
• A guide to keeping a good notebook, including do's and don'ts, a useful checklist and an interactive quiz
• 3 steps to a good notebook
• Even Dilbert keeps a notebook...

For inspiration - some classic examples:

Leonardo DaVinci

Charles Darwin

Sir Isaac Newton

Marie Curie

Image references:
http://classicalschool.blogspot.com/2008/09/lab-notebooks-through-history.html
http://www.duq.edu/sepa/regmed/darwin/publishing.shtml