Lab notebooks in general are used by scientists, engineers, and technicians to document research, experiments, and procedures performed in a laboratory.
Electronic lab notebooks are a fairly new technology and offer many benefits to the user as well as organizations.
For example: electronic lab notebooks are easier to search upon, simplify data copying and backups, and support collaboration amongst many users.
It is incomplete, as a recent review listed 96 active & 76 inactive (172 total) ELN products.
[4] Notably, this review and other lists of ELN software often do not include widely used generic notetaking software like Onenote, Notion, Jupyter etc, due to their lack ELN nominal features like time-stamping and append-only editing.