The worst month is the one where you keep the record twice.
Most lab software asks you to start again. That means running paper by day and typing it up at night — which is the documented reason these moves fail. So import comes first, and it's free.
- Bring
- OneNote, Word, spreadsheets, folders of files
- Kept
- Byte for byte, exactly as written
- Cost
- Nothing. Importing is not a paid feature
Three ways in
Folders, as they are
Point woodle at a drive, a share or an instrument PC. It keeps your folder structure and turns it into studies and runs rather than flattening it.
Photographs of pages
Photograph a paper notebook page and we read it. Dates, headings and numbers come across as text you can search.
OneNote exports
OneNote is the honest incumbent in most labs. Export it and bring it in whole — sections, pages, attachments.
Your instruments
What each one writes, and how it lands.
Find yours →Where your files live
Link to your own storage, or let woodle hold it.
See the options →Coming from OneNote
What changes, and what doesn't.
Read it →Charging for migration is charging someone to stop being stuck. It also guarantees a half-migrated lab, which is the worst possible state — and the one that makes people give up in month one.
It won't invent what was never written down.
Import brings across what exists. If a protocol deviation lived only in someone's memory, no software recovers it — and we'd rather say so than imply otherwise.
What import does is remove the excuse for starting from an empty workspace, which is where most of these projects quietly die.
Bring one study across and see how it feels.
Import is on the free plan. If it doesn't handle your files well, you'll know within an afternoon.