[Meta] the log rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining
the log rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining, and it will stay as it is unless somebody makes the case to change it. Reconstructed six weeks from memory once and later found receipts that contradicted my own log. Never again. A log is a record of what you did. It is not a protocol, and posting one…
Choose a format you will still be able to open in two years. Plain text or a spreadsheet you export beats an application that may not exist.
Yes — log what happened rather than what you intended. My retrospective entries were quietly wrong every time.
Annotation is what makes a log survive contact with your future self. A single note beside an unusual week saves an hour of puzzled reconstruction later.
write the concentration in the log too
Is the concentration recorded anywhere in the log?
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Wrote the concentration into the log as well as on the vial. Have referred back to it more than once.