[bafe]

Or maybe just adopt the modern solution and use a electronic lab notebook (ELN). I'm a software engineer and we are trying to introduce ELN in our institution, it's not easy to convince researchers of the benefits of reproducibility. People really just use manual methods like "sensible names"

[akoboldfrying]

What is an ELN?

[bafe]

Electronic lab notebook.

[analog31]

An issue, and maybe you can speak to this from experience, is the dread of Enterprise Software.

The notebook has to support recording any kind of information, be accessible anywhere, even on tiny laptop screens, and otherwise stay out of the way. It should involve little or no manual data transfer. It should probably work harmoniously with git. For some of us, investing brain cells in the use of proprietary software might be a negative.

For my work, Jupyter notebooks are the best solution I've found. A wet chemist might have a different opinion.

[bafe]

There are plenty of non commercial, non enterprise ELN system. With all their down sides, they are all pretty similar and relatively easy to use (they could use better UI but that's often a problem in research). I think it's almost completely a cultural problem