Wrap up the day into the notebook
Lesson 2 of 7 · The working week
By the end you can turn a day's scattered notes into a notebook entry with what was done, what was decided, what changed, and what is still open with an owner.
1 · Learn the move · Recipe pattern
The day's real record lives in four places: the run sheet, your phone, a sticky note on the hood, and your memory, which is gone by Monday. A ten-minute wrap-up fixes that if it always has the same shape. DONE: what ran, with run or sample IDs. DECIDED: what was decided and by whom, in one line each. CHANGED: any step done differently from the SOP, written as a deviation, not hidden in prose. OPEN: what is not finished, each with an owner and a date. The model sorts your scraps into that shape and stops there. It does not tidy a value it cannot see in your notes, and it does not turn 'looked weird' into a conclusion. Anything missing becomes [NEEDS: ...] so you can see the hole before you sign the entry.
Turn my notes from today into a notebook entry: [paste notes, run sheet lines, messages]. Sections: DONE (with run / sample IDs) / DECIDED (what, who) / CHANGED from the SOP (as deviations) / OPEN (item, owner, date). Use only what is in my notes. Any missing value, ID or owner = [NEEDS: ...]. Do not interpret results; 'looked odd' stays as I wrote it.
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
It is 6:40 pm. Today you ran the second western for the knockdown, changed the blocking step because the milk was out, agreed with your PI to drop the 72-hour timepoint, and noticed the loading control looked uneven. Your notes are four lines on the run sheet, two texts to a labmate and a photo of the whiteboard. You leave for a conference tomorrow for three days.
Write the prompt for this scenario as given, or swap in a real one from your own work. The score works the same either way.
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