OpenWetWare:Feature list/Lab notebook/2007 Oct Brainstorming/Jason

I currently keep my lab notebook in a word doc, so was trying to figure out why i'm not using the wiki. The main reasons are:

1. Hard to search across the entire notebook unless I keep it on one giant page (which becomes cumbersome to edit).
2. more coming...

Features I'd like to see

1. Search within notebook.

Random stuff

1. No hoops to jump through to contribute content.
   • basically, I'd like to see an electronic, shared instance of a paper lab notebook. So I think getting metadata / tagging is great, but at the moment 99% of the lab notebooks out there don't have metadata and they aren't shared electronically. maybe we should just focus on the issue of sharing the content electronically, and build out the fancier stuff later.
   • So the focus would be mainly on usability for contribution, rather than usability for searching/finding other people's content -- at least at the beginning.
     • 'Cameron Neylon 12:14, 4 October 2007 (EDT)' I agree, get the stuff in there but I would recommend having some tagging in there at the beginning. We've found it's easy to end up with too much stuff. And then you can't find anything.