eLabN
In active design
Lab sign-in
Smarter software. Better science.
A quieter way to work a lab.
eLabN is a workspace over the lab notebook a lab already keeps. It reads what is really there and writes back only changes a person can see and undo — the notebook stays the system of record underneath.
It is built for one lab, in the open with that lab, and it is not for sale. This page is a door.
Where it is
Written down plainly, because the alternative is a page that promises more than the thing does. Everything below is either working behind the sign-in or it is not, and it says which.
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Inventoryworking
Samples, boxes, racks and cold storage, drawn as the physical place they are. Search reaches the recorded fields, not only names. Moving a vial is checked against the notebook rather than believed.
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Experimentsworking
An experiment opens into its sections, its files and the samples it used. Two section types the notebook will not serve are named as such rather than drawn wrong.
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Filesworking
The group drive as a catalogue, with the files openable in place. Plasmid maps — the kind no browser can draw and the notebook calls "unknown" — are read in the page, with nothing uploaded anywhere.
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Equipmentworking
Instrument calendars, and the lab's own floor: rooms placed where they really are, with the instruments standing in them. Shared by everyone in the lab, because a map that showed you a different room from the person beside you would be worse than none.
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Writing backpartly
Changes are staged, shown as a list a person reads before anything leaves, and recorded in the notebook's own audit trail under that person's name. Some of what the notebook allows, it allows only for some records; where it refuses, the refusal is shown rather than hidden.
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Assistanceearly
Deliberately narrow. A typed phrase can become a filter you can see and clear in one click; the app runs the filter and counts the rows itself. No number on any screen is written by a model.
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Authoringnext
Making an experiment, editing a section, dropping a file where it belongs.
How it behaves
Every number is computed from a record, and anything the notebook does not hold is labelled as missing rather than filled in.
Where a screen is showing something read a while ago, it says so, and says when.
Credentials are held sealed and never returned to a browser. A change is reviewed before it is sent, and can be undone after.
A control that will not work is shown disabled with its reason beside it, never hidden and never left to fail.
Access
There is nothing to sign up for.
eLabN is private and built for one lab. Sign-in is by invitation, there is no waitlist, and there is nothing to install. If you have an account, the door is above.
The page will grow as the work does, and no faster.