This article is part of the AfterMath Data Organizer User’s Guide
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All scientists need to write down notes as they are performing laboratory experiments. While most of these notes should eventually find their way into a traditional laboratory notebook, it is often helpful to add notes to computer-based data files as you are acquiring data from an instrument. AfterMath allows you to add one or more notes, like the one shown in the figure below, to any item in an archive. AfterMath notes support multiple fonts, styles, and colors and many text formatting options which are important to scientists, such as superscripts and subscripts.
A note may be attached to any item in the archive. Simply right-click on any existing item in the archive in the “tree control” on the left side of the screen (see figure below). When you right-click on the item, a popup menu appears. Select the “New » Note” option from the popup menu.
The action described above will attach a new note to the item you selected. Once the new note is created, you may edit it in the Main Viewing Area on the right side of the screen (see figure below).
