Obsidian Electronic Lab Notebook vault released

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Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) for Researchers and Scientists

Hi Obsidian Community,

I’m excited to share a project I’ve been working on—a fully customizable Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) designed specifically for researchers and scientists. If you’re looking for a powerful, flexible way to manage your research notes, experiments, and data, this might be just what you need!

What is it?

The ELN vault I’ve created is built on top of Obsidian’s robust note-taking platform, offering a range of features tailored to the needs of scientific research. The vault is organized with a logical structure and comes with pre-configured templates to help you streamline your documentation process.

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Key Features:

  • Pre-configured Templates: Ready-to-use templates for experiment planning, data collection, literature reviews, and more.
  • Organizational Structure: A logical folder setup that mirrors the typical workflow of a research project, making it easy to keep everything organized.
  • Task and Project Management: Integrated task management to help you track your research activities and stay on top of deadlines.
  • Powerful Linking and Tagging: Use Obsidian’s linking and tagging features to build connections between experiments, protocols, and data, creating a web of interconnected notes.

Who is it for?

This ELN vault is ideal for anyone involved in scientific research, whether you’re a solo researcher, part of a larger lab team, or a student looking for a better way to manage your research documentation.

How to Get Started:

  1. Download Obsidian (if you haven’t already) from the official website.
  2. Clone or download the ELN vault from my GitHub repository: https://github.com/fcskit/obsidian-eln
  3. Load the vault into Obsidian and start exploring the templates and features.
  4. Customize the vault to suit your specific research needs!

Feedback and Contributions:

I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback! If you have any suggestions for improvements or additional features, feel free to drop a comment here or contribute directly on GitHub. Collaboration is always welcome.

Conclusion:

Obsidian is a powerful tool, and with this ELN vault, I hope to make it even more useful for the research community. I’m looking forward to seeing how others might use and expand on this project.

Check it out and let me know what you think!

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Thank you so much!!! I am really excited about this. I have been spending lots of time optimizing my ELN system. I am glad someone also have the same thing in mind. :slight_smile:

Will test it out.

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Hi,

I am excited to try this.
I opened the root directory as a vault, however I did not get any warning about plugin installation.
Is there a way to check if all the requisite plugins have been installed?

Thanks

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The vault folder is nested in another folder. You need to go one folder deeper, where you see the .obsidian folder.

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Thank you for your reply.

Going one folder deeper did not prompt for plugin installation either!

In case it helps, I am using the latest version on Windows 11.

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Friend you need to add ELN_vault folder; it has the .obsidian config folder.
The parent folder of ELN_vault (which is what you get on unzipping the zip file) is no use adding.

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Yurcee is right. The actual vault folder is called “ELN_vault” and contains the .obsidian folder. If you import this folder as vault and not the top level folder you should be asked whether you want to enable the plugins. Hope you already got it working.

Don’t hesitate asking further question on how to use the ELN. I’m planing to make some YouTube tutorials in the future but don’t know when I’ll find the time to do so.

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Thank you @Yurcee and @fsckit .

I think there was some error while unzipping the file and I did not have the ELN_vault in my unzipped directory.

I fixed that and I am happy to report that I have it up and going.
Really excited to try it out!

Thank you