How come lab notebooks are ridiculously expensive? Also, I guess most notebooks are slightly bigger than composition notebooks
I'm tempted to make a spreadsheet template or PDF. It's pretty silly to spend a lot of money on a lab notebook when you can print a few grid pages and bind the book yourself
Current status
Hmmm...
My DIY lab notebook sheet came out OK, I think. But I don’t think I can align the grids exactly so the front matches the back (noticeable on cheap office paper). Then again, I guess there’s only so much you can do with a spreadsheet and an old printer
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I was hoping LibreOffice's PDF export would preserve the grid boldness and other formatting. Alas, at least on Windows, all the grid lines seem to be very faint after export :(
I'm making a downloadable LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet for anyone who wants to print their own lab notebook. The paper size is US-Letter, but it should fit fine into A4 size. The grids are set at 5mm, which is pretty standard
DIY Printable Lab Notebook
https://github.com/cypnk/Lab-Notebook
I'm releasing the spreadsheet into the public domain. I had a minor issue exporting to PDF, but if you have LibreOffice, it should work fine
@cypnk I could use that as a base for my music arrangement sheets. I know I could have made one in spreadsheet, but when you've done most of the work and I just have to edit some headings ...
Thanks for sharing it 😄
@cypnk My ancient version of Open Office chokes on it. Time for an update to Libre, I think
@Stringbender I did this in LibreOffice so that may have something to do with it
It should both work since the format is standard, but I guess newer versions are a bit different for both
@cypnk All sorted now - got Libre in and running.
@cypnk That looks pretty neato! I think I'm going to give it a try, Thank you 😃
Gather enough sheets and you can do a perfect bind yourself
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