This year in the advanced physics course I teach, I wanted to broaden student exposure to lab notebook keeping methods. Students could keep lab notebooks on traditional carbon copy paper, or they ...

Over time, these adaptations form a recognizable maturity curve rather than a simple binary divide between old and new tools.

While pen and paper can be helpful in a pinch for jotting down the odd observation or a reminder to do something later, if you don’t categorise those notes then it can be tricky to track down a ...