SciNote Reviews & Product Details

It is an intuitive userface that makes it easy to use. It doesn't have overcomplicated to make a lab notebok entry so it wasn't difficult to introduce this system to my teams. It's also affordable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be great to have a detailed and straighfoward way to document our cold storage, but I have yet to find any electronic lab notebook service that has what I am looking for, so this it less of a dislike of SciNote and more of a "it'd be cool if they had it", but my team doesn't need one at this time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stock management is highly effective and fully customizable.

Documentation processes are smooth and efficient.

Easily integrates with other tools, such as Microsoft Office.

Lab members can plan their days/weeks using SciNote

Support staff are helpful and friendly.

Open to client feedback and new ideas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Navigation between tasks could be more seamless.

Editing items in the inventory could be more streamlined. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I enjoy being able to work together with colleagues on projects and get real time updates about what they've accomplished. I joined a company that uses SciNote 1 month ago and feel that it is easy to use and implement. I use it on a daily basis to refer to saved protocols and to take notes on completed experiments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I recently was working on a protocol that combined 2 protocols, one that I had made and another colleague had made. I couldn't figure out how to delete and replace the protocol that my colleague had made, so that seemed a little less than intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SciNote is easy to use, and so much more efficient than a lab notebook, making it easier to be comprehensive in the data/processes that need to be documented. The file structure is simple and makes documentation straightforward. Protocols and protocol versioning are very helpful to document quickly and to keep methods up-to-date. The information that needs to be recorded within a task protocol can be set up for repeated . Seeing the workflow withing an experiment is also very helpful for quickly understanding the experiment process. Having a microsoft online connected to the site is also very helpful for collaborative work, allowing you to skip the step of having to upload items. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be very helpful if templates could include formatting for Results, so that result documentation as well as procedural can be structured. Additionally, as you cannot put experiments into sub-project folders, it can become somewhat messy within the file structure of projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SciNote has been a great way for our lab to stay organized and keep protocols, inventory, and data in one place. Lab members use it every day for taking notes, keeping track of grant experiments, surgical experiments, cell culturing, etc. We have found the relationships add-on to be extremely useful. It is very user friendly and the SciNote team are very responsive and helpful when we have any problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SciNote is a work in progress, so there are still some bugs to be worked out. Our lab has found some issues where we would like to write freehand and there is no simple way to do that in SciNote. There is a learning curve to implement the software into the lab, but overall worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The calendar feature on the dashboard page is the best because it allows you to see everything that is happening for the month no matter if its assigned to you or not. This is helpful when it comes time to plan out experiments that last for several weeks at a time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish you could get reminders for the start date of things and not just the due date. The calendar tracking only goes by the due date and there are several assays that I perform over multiple days so it would be nice to set the start and end date for the whole lenght of the experiment not just when the experiment initally needs to be taken down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Really easy to use. Quick overview of experiments and tasks to do. I like that we can see the inventory and import protocols in tasks. No need of paperwork to document what we did and the easyness to see what have been done.

I also like that you can check boxes for each step you're doing, the protocol is really followed step by step. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The signature process leads to a heaviness of the software.

In an experiment, I like the canva view but you cannot zoom in/out and moving in the task is not as easy as it could be e.g. for big worklow, all the steps cannot be seen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What is most helpful when using SciNote is their ability to create and link notes together for projects. I love being able to connect notes in sequential matter and viaualize the workflow as our studies grow. The upside of using SciNote is that it is easy to get aquanited to and has simple features. It took me only a couple of days to implement the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Something that is least helpful is the inventories page. I find that my company doesnt use it, but it could be helpful if it was better formatted. Something I dislike about SciNote is that there is no ability to go a little bit more complex with the features; they seem realtively basic, but functional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We use SciNote in our research and development lab, both for performing and recording experiments and product development, and for sharing data with collaborators. We use SciNote every day for all of our normal operations, as well as tracking short-term or infrequent projects and tasks.

Having everything in one place and accessible to all team members is a game changer for our lab. Because we collaborate on projects so much, there would be bits and pieces of experiments spread across several lab notebooks and hunting down what you needed was a chore. SciNote totally eliminated that. In additional, the inventory management system has added so much value for our lab. We used to keep dozens of excel spreadsheets to track inventories for various projects and contracts, and it became a real burden. SciNote helped consolidate all of that into one place, which has been awesome.

Working with the team at SciNote has also been great. They have been quick, thorough and responsive to our needs, and have actively sought feedback and ideas for improving the product. We were even able to meet with the head of product development to discuss our challenges with the product and features that we would like to see implemented in the future.

Getting SciNote set up did take some time. We had a lot of information, inventories, and ongoing trackers that had to be manually set up in SciNote. However, the integration itself was very straightforward and easy, and we were able to quickly get help from the customer support team whenever we ran into issues. The time we spent getting everything set up was definitely worthwhile. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We use SciNote for recording experiments, as well as for product development and time tracking. It works great for experiments, and has a lot of features that are geared toward running standard protocols and recording standard results. However, it doesn't lend itself as well to the more free-form style required for prototyping and iteration. Our product development team needs to be able to sketch diagrams and ideas, make notes about prototype changes, and track parts as they are added or taken away.

Additionally, the table feature could use some updates! We are able to add Excel files to protocols, which is a decent workaround for now, but it would be really nice to have more sophisticated native tables. Adding intuitive formulas, the ability to move data around in a table, and more robust formatting options would be really useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the easy way of looking through the inventory and being able to keep up to date with the amount of products that are consumed and still available in our storage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Scibote signature requests are useless in my situation and for how we work at our company.

Additionally, I dislike that you cannot zoom out of the canvas view in individual experimetns and always need to "drag" the canvas left and right/ up and down. If the zooming out feature was available, it would have made things much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.