Once this happens, electronic notebooks will soar in popularity-not only for collaborating groups but also for private users. Everything is computerized today. An electronic notebook is a repository for objects that document scientific research. It can be used to enter, retrieve, or query objects such as text, sketches, images, tables, and graphs. They hold a static record of ideas, experiments, and results.
Electronic notebooks have many advantages over paper notebooks.
They can be accessed remotely through the Internet. They can't be lost or destroyed. It is easy to incorporate not only computer files and experimental data but also multimedia into an electronic notebook. It can easily be searched for information. It can contain hyperlinks to other information, such as a reference paper stored elsewhere on the Internet.