Our digital lab book consists of two areas: a Sidebar (for navigation previews and to select snippets) and a Writing Pad.
You as the curator have two jobs:
Currently, there is no "undo" button, for the following rationale:
Good Scientific Practice is not to remove things from the lab book, but to cross sth. out.
If you do need to remove something, tell Markus. The admin is able to remove things.
Printing is not yet supported, but certainly planned.
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On the left hand side, you have the Sidebar. It consists of two two panes:
As you may have guessed, the preview pane shows a preview of all pages; the pages are updated once in a while (not live).
Clicking on a preview will open that page in the Writing Pad.
On the top, there is also an input field to directly go to a specific page number.
Using "preview→add" you can add pages (currently, the new pages are appended to the end).
Newly appended pages are currently not updated on remote clients; please click "preview→reload" to reload the list of pages from time to time.
Snippets are the things the curator glues into the Writing Pad.
Clicking on a snippet will open a dialogue window; currently, you just can set the horizontal width in pixels (maximum value: 1200; the Writing Pad is 1400 pixels wide).
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To write using a (mouse|finger|stylus|Wacom tablet), first select "doodle" from the tool bar.
Then you can also switch colours and line widths.
Drawings will propagate in real-time to your collaborators; note that the preview pages are not refreshed instantly.
For scrolling, select "pointer" from the tool bar.
You can hide/show the background grid; it shows thin and thinner lines separated by 5 mm and 10 mm. The grid is (currently) only used as a visual aid, but not to automatically snap elements to it.
On the top, you find the buttons "1up" and "2up"; these show a single page (at "100%" size and vertical scrolling) or two pages side-by-side (at "50%" size, no scrolling necessary at a screen resolution of 1920x1080 pixels). Writing and placing snippets should work in both view modes.
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