We use SciNote in our research and development lab, both for performing and recording experiments and product development, and for sharing data with collaborators. We use SciNote every day for all of our normal operations, as well as tracking short-term or infrequent projects and tasks.

Having everything in one place and accessible to all team members is a game changer for our lab. Because we collaborate on projects so much, there would be bits and pieces of experiments spread across several lab notebooks and hunting down what you needed was a chore. SciNote totally eliminated that. In additional, the inventory management system has added so much value for our lab. We used to keep dozens of excel spreadsheets to track inventories for various projects and contracts, and it became a real burden. SciNote helped consolidate all of that into one place, which has been awesome.

Working with the team at SciNote has also been great. They have been quick, thorough and responsive to our needs, and have actively sought feedback and ideas for improving the product. We were even able to meet with the head of product development to discuss our challenges with the product and features that we would like to see implemented in the future.

Getting SciNote set up did take some time. We had a lot of information, inventories, and ongoing trackers that had to be manually set up in SciNote. However, the integration itself was very straightforward and easy, and we were able to quickly get help from the customer support team whenever we ran into issues. The time we spent getting everything set up was definitely worthwhile. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We use SciNote for recording experiments, as well as for product development and time tracking. It works great for experiments, and has a lot of features that are geared toward running standard protocols and recording standard results. However, it doesn't lend itself as well to the more free-form style required for prototyping and iteration. Our product development team needs to be able to sketch diagrams and ideas, make notes about prototype changes, and track parts as they are added or taken away.

Additionally, the table feature could use some updates! We are able to add Excel files to protocols, which is a decent workaround for now, but it would be really nice to have more sophisticated native tables. Adding intuitive formulas, the ability to move data around in a table, and more robust formatting options would be really useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arun! If we ever had a problem or question, he is always able to help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not being able to adjust the Inventory columns size. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the easy way of looking through the inventory and being able to keep up to date with the amount of products that are consumed and still available in our storage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Scibote signature requests are useless in my situation and for how we work at our company.

Additionally, I dislike that you cannot zoom out of the canvas view in individual experimetns and always need to "drag" the canvas left and right/ up and down. If the zooming out feature was available, it would have made things much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Create project task flows, construct project management sheets in inventories, and keep track of everything with dates and reminders. Add images, files, and word documents to results as it is essential and handy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would like it if the molecular biology tool was able to align Sanger sequencing files. It would also be helpful to be able to adjust the printing parameters as sometimes the protocol is cut off by printing on the next page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Scinote has great features in place to keep all of my lab inventory and tasks on track. I specifically enjoy being able to assign inventory items to a task. Additionally it is easy to use for scientist and no scientist who need access to lab recordings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only downside to scinote is the organization within a folder- I think I would prefer some type of list or toggle organization inncomparison to the "sticky note" organization it currently uses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like the flowchart aspect of SciNote, it makes it simple to see what tasks are part of the pipeline. I also like how neatly everything is categorized when it comes to searching for experiments and tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't like the protocol tabs on experimental tasks--there doesn't need to be a mandatory option to input "steps", rather it would just be easier to upload documents as needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very easy to use and best notebook for to save all the information about the experiments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I did not find anything dislike about the Scinote Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The automatic cataloguing of projects, experiments, and tasks with numerical codes makes it very easy to find what you're looking for on the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Proper record-keeping on SciNote requires hours of your time per week. Project and experiment numerical codes are also difficult to access while you are reading a task. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We are a CRO lab in the pharmaceutical industry and recently evaluated Scinote while exploring ELN solutions for our company. Working with the Scinote support team, and especially Ben Tripodi, has been an excellent experience. Ben’s swift responses, professionalism, and deep product knowledge were outstanding. I have reached out to several competitors’ account executives, and none matched the efficiency and professionalism of Ben; communication with them was slower and less effective. While we ultimately determined that Scinote was not the perfect fit for our specific scope, it is an excellent product and well-positioned in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While Scinote is a solid product for its market positioning, as a contract lab operating under GxP, we found some limitations. We would expect more advanced features such as:

Native integration with lab instruments.

The ability to insert forms directly within sentences when creating templates.

A more straightforward, precise, and concise audit trail for tracking changes in large texts and tables.

An external client portal allowing clients to log in, submit testing requests, and download results.

These improvements would make Scinote more suitable for GxP-regulated environments and larger-scale contract lab operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very easy to search lab results and see the status of different products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The user interface can be confusing and sometimes laggy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.