e-nnovate e-notebook enables you to turn your ideas, observations and information into a presentable, functional presentation units called "portfolios".You can select and combine various components of your experiments as well as comments from yourself or your collaborators into one portfolio and download it for your use.

Your notes will be in .html format and the other data in its original format making it easy for direct posting on the world-wide-web, or for conversion into .pdf documents using adobe acrobat.

Having all files and notes in one place allows you to use your portfolio in a variety of settings including presentations and as a quick way to pick various pieces of your work to be incorporated into a publication.

The portfolio also allows you to organize notes from different folders giving you more flexibility in managing your work. It is also to print the portfolio to use it as hand-outs in labmeetings or to presentations.

Illustrative Case #1: The Paper Meeting

John's advisor has written him an e-mail saying they need to have a nice "working" meeting. He has been working over a year on a set of experiments studying the properties of a specific muscle tissue in reaction to various physiologic conditions.

His advisor insists that he has collected enough data and now the time has come for him to assemble his findings into a paper. As each experiment moves involves different conditions, there is a large diversity of data and procedures which John needs to present to his advisor for them to decide what would be interesting to go into a paper.

Outcome:
John has stored the his data as well as observations and protocols using e-nnovate e-notebook. He has created multiple topics including experiments which deal with long-term and short-term changes in the muscle tissue structure based on the exercise regimens of the animals.

With the help of the portfolio generation capabilities of the software, he selects and generates copies of the data and observation into the multiple categories which he had not thought of when he had started the experiments many month ago, but that now make sense. He reclassifies the data based on the exercise regimen and creates two additional portfolios with important data and observations relating the experiments.

He is able to quickly navigate his entries and select only data that he feels is relevant and observations, comments and methodology that he knows his advisor would be interested in. Thus he enters their meeting able to present his work from multiple different perspectives and is able to quickly converge with his advisor on the best way to present the data in a publication.