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A forward-looking plan to release e-notes of my project

11/15/2018

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Moving to California from Michigan and shipping seven five-subject notebooks (and leaving them on the shelf) made me realize the importance of keeping good records electronically. Despite that I started to keep hand-written notes with GoodNote on iPad, which instantly sync (and can search hand-writing words), I started to think about how to improve research notes. 
More importantly, I would hope to improve transparency of research, as well as reproducibility, by all means. It may also help track down how a project turns and twists, and how new ideas and new tests come up.
I am trying to make it simple and informative.
The current format I am using is to have a section for notes of each week. It reminds me how little I have done. It also tells the pace of the project, in retrospective. 
If I work on some technical parts of the project, I will include the technical problem and the solution and the failed trails.
If I plot some useful figures, I also include them. 
If I read an interesting paper, I will comment and save their url.
If I have some new ideas, I will also write them down, which might or might not be directly related to the project.
I hope that once the project is done and the paper is published, I can prepare a downloading page to share my them.
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