Findings - Lab Notebook

Ever since the os update, both the iPad and Mac versions of this app keep crashing! It makes it really hard in the lab to depend on this app if the protocol I’m using crashes after just a minute every time!! Edit: iPad app still crashing!!! I still have yet to hear back from the developer about the crashes, even though I see they’re active on the forum. Really frustrating as this is my main repository for all my data and it is crashing!!!!

The iCloud sync option is must with the fact that this is a paid app. This shouldn’t be a big issue to sync through iCloud. Just like notes app of the apple but don’t know why is that it has been forever to get that essential feature. Otherwise it is very limited and not good enough to work with.

Not a scientist nor researcher, I use Findings as a notebook, rather than research tracking tool. I love how I can review my notes from mobile, but different kind of notes is now consider as experiment on mobile. Current stage doesn’t have ability to view all feature on the MacOS. I really hope developers can expend the horizon of what both MacOS and IOS app can do, and craft features that can be implemented for different field with the same scientific documentation techniques. Thank you for the good app.

Used it on Mac and loved it. Have used it before on iPad but was not 100 percent sure it was completely usable. I will give it a second shot!

I really like this app and find it to be very useful in organizing my experiments. I would just like to provide one suggestion—could you add a materials section to the protocol? It might be me, as I am still in the learning process of using the app, but I cannot seem to incorporate the materials required for any particular protocol.

easy to save and search

Cannot sync with Dropbox Update: support is very helpful. Now the issue is fixed by a pretty complex way.

This app is pretty solid in terms of what you can track with it, and I haven't found anything better in a standalone app. However, , it has some issues with text formatting that interrupt the workflow somewhat. For example, when adding a new paragraph to an experiment, if text is selected and you press the "title" button to convert that text to a heading, the text is no longer selected, so you need to go back and delete it manually. Also, it's not possible to add separate paragraph styles at the same time--changing to a heading style will change all of the text on the edit paragraph screen, even if two would-be paragraphs are separated by a blank line. That said, the app has improved dramatically in both features and stability over the past few years, and if you can get past the spots where the not-quite-intuitive workflows affect the user experience, it's definitely a worthwhile investment for a student or researcher looking for a digital lab notebook solution.

iPhone and desktop apps integrate nicely

I find it pretty much a disaster. You can't use the Apple pencil to sketch in ideas....typing only. The paragraphs format is too rigid, you can only move then around , sort of. Photos land on top of paragraphs, blocking the paragraph. I don't think you can delete a photo once inserted...as it sits over your text. Trying to move a photo seems to create copies of the photo. Can't find a decent lab notebook app, they all seem written by people never in a lab.