SciNote Reviews & Product Details - Page 6

SciNotes UI is very appealing, simple to use and gives a great overview at any time. Projects can be set up, managed and distributed easily. The customer support is always ready to help with documentations and short videos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The inventory lacks a spatial overview which can help to locate samples more easily. The app is rather simple and does not yet allow to use the inventory or do major edits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Best aspects of SciNote:

-They have a variety of text and upload options for what type of information you want to take note of. For example you can write out text in their text box and paste in images or add tables just as you would on a Word document or you can use their Protocol section to structure your procedural steps and add images/files/table as attachments.

-It is easy to use the SciNote ELN on a tablet connected to the internet. The interface doesn't get too distorted so for a bench scientist transitioning from paper notebook to using SciNote on a tablet is an easier obstacle to overcome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shortcomings:

-I think SciNote's capacity to handle large images is low. Sometimes my data will not load properly on the Results tab.

-The interface for a new user gets some getting used to. It would be great if they had the note taking space look like a lab notebook, just like a sheet of paper where you can type and insert items wherever you want (this would be the most like a physical notebook). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like being able to see all the tasks in an experiment laid out. I find this feature especially helpful when planning or if I have been away from a particular experiment for a while.

Where we have come across issues and contacted the Scinote team, they have responded quickly and kept us up to date on progress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In many cases we are still writing our results in other software first (word, excel, illustrator, powerpoint) and then uploading into Scinote, because the other programs are more user friendly.

Having to switch between results and methods can also be frustrating. It would be nice if you could have a task with methods and results as part of the same screen (or have a choice of templates with that as an option). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love being able to have all my inventory in one location. It can keep up with anything you want to add. Its really easy to use and we use it frequently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

None that I can currently think of. It's pretty straightforward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SciNote is a good way to stay aligned with your team. It provides one place for everyone to upload files, protocols, results, etc. As long as your entire team is dedicated to keeping it updated, it is an excellent tool to stay organized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SciNote often changes the format of their website slightly, which can be annoying. Once I learn how to use the new format, it often changes. Also, the results tab can be extremely slow to load; I often have to refresh the tab multiple times for it to actually load the results files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very easy to organize experiences and to link it with other materials. The stock management part is very usefull as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I miss being able to inser other objects in the text part of an entry. I like to mix and match text, pictures and tables in the same field. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SciNote is the most intuitive and descriptive electronic lab notebook that could be found to date. It immensily helps to stay organized and make important notes during the experiments. The layout of the website make it very easy to find necessary experiment, tasks, and the specific steps. Morevover, it makes it much easier to stay organized and keep track of experiment progression. The ability to share planned experiments and assign the task helps to keep all the project members organized. Seamless dulication of every aspect of the experiments provides the sought-after release from the necessaity to re-write every step over and over again - all is needed is to modify key steps for the given experiment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are some missing features that would have made the website even better. Specifically, the tasks connection only presented in the overview of the experiment, while no such relationship reflected on the Navigator bar. Website is not very well optimized for the touchscreen. And the app version feels like a beta-test. The SciNote is constantly upgrading, so in the future most of the issues should be addressed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can create a testing plan from your own format or a premade format. It helps me standardize the work we do on a daily basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some times it hard to navigate and find the location of some files I have created. This mainly occurs when I am switching from mobel to desk top versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Layout is perfect! It provides a seamless workspace. While they are still improving, the ELN does provide a base for efficient reporting of data. Navigating through each section is simple and quick. Not to mention the commenting section does provide a good basis for optimally reviewing data. And the Autosave feature a plus, without us having to worry about data loss while working. Also, creating templates for similar experiments is much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tagging other experiments or tasks is still a challenge sometimes. Also, I think there is still some room for improvement in tagging other person for review or leaving a comment for them in a task. Because once a person views the comment in the bell icon, the notification is turned off. It would be great if SciNote could incorporate a way to differentiate the notifications based on, 'yet to resolve' and 'resolved' so that the resolved onces do no show up and the ones that are not resolved yet still appear on the bell icon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The capabilities to organize experiments within folders, and tasks within experiments, are sophisticated enough to represent the logical relationship of experiments and tasks to one another. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is at least partly my fault, because I could use tags and don't: if I use the search feature to try to find a protocol template, search terms within the protocol name are not always sufficient to find the protocol. I also haven't found an efficient way to jump to the subset of templates that I have authored, bypassing others.

The default level of zooming, when I look at a workflow, is such that navigation panes take up most of my screen, with only about a third of the screen left for the experiment itself.

While I understand the need for automatic timestamping, it would be helpful to me if it were possible to display alternative timestamps that more accurately reflect when the work was done, in cases where a protocol is performed over a series of days and I only update SciNote at the end.

It would be great if SciNote could be automatically integrated with software like Airtable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.