Desk Flotsam: Monitor Note

Desk Flotsam: Monitor Note

I just printed a copy of this for my monitor at home for WFH days - the worst thing about WFH has been that I haven't had this taped to my monitor (unlike at work). I was writing a batch record and needed ≥ and ≤ a million times and could not for the life of me keep the alt codes in my brain.

The color coding ends up looking a little bit like this:
(2026 migration note: I cannot figure out how to color code in Ghost, but y'all get it!)
In a 500 mL RBF equipped with stir bar, added 100 mL DCM. Added 1.0 g starting materialand400 mg reagent A. Initiated stirring at 120 rpm with an egg-shaped stir bar, then added 100 mg reagent B. Allowed to stir at RT for 3 hours.
Reaction turned yellow upon addition of reagent B.
Start time: 2:05 pm 10-Feb-2023

It only takes a few seconds once you get used to it, and the resulting procedures make repeating experiments or modifying them considerably less "scour the procedure for how much X I put it".

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