There's something that we've been neglecting on our Labtrove ELN entries so far that we should probably deal with. Metadata. It would be great to add some more of this to our posts but the question is what would be most useful? Labtrove adds metadata in the same way as it add "Sections", i.e. it places them onto the menu on the right hand side. The problem with this is: if the precise yield is given in the metadata then it lists every single yield on the right hand side making for inconvinient reading. A better approach would be to have labtrove collate yields into ranges (0-10%, 10-20% ... 60-70% etc.). I've added a few bits to a couple of posts on the aryl pyrrole notebook to illustrate this. Adding metadata for characterisation information (NMR, mass spec) and physical properties (mpt, bpt) would be most useful if it included the actual value, however this may not be something we, as humans, want listed in full. We just need to know if its there or not to make sure we've collected the whole complement of data.
 
It would be great to have some feedback about which bits of metadata we should be collecting and which of these could be automated. For example, currently all metadata requires manual addition. OSCAR text mining could be used to generate this, rather than us repeating ourselves. My feeling is that metadata in Labtrove will make it more usable but only if it can be automated and that display options changed to prevent clutter of the human-readable lab notebook entries.
 
Team: what are your thoughts?