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By Steve Dickman, CBT Advisors
More than ten years ago, I stopped using paper notebooks for my writing and consulting work. As someone who writes and thinks for a living, this was a big transition. But what a payoff I received in return! I no longer had to refer to handwritten notes or to type them later. My typed notes suddenly became searchable and editable. Since they are easy to access, they push me to new conclusions and new beginnings.
Just imagine how useful such a shift would be for biologists. Unlike the typical solitary writer or consultant, biologists work both on their own and collaboratively. Keeping their thoughts locked in paper notebooks has got slow down the free flow of ideas both between biologists as well as inside each one’s head. Indeed, putting biological data – in handwriting! – into a notebook that can only be read by one person seems almost criminal. “Cloud” software platforms have already enabled faster, more efficien
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