Follow up notes

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Data storage

Evernote or Microsoft OneNote: apps for field and lab notebooks, easy scans, version control
GPS tracks and Avenza: allow you to track your route, drop pins for waypoints, upload pictures of field notebooks at each point
Field Note app (for iPads?): alternative to survey123 for field data collection
7-zip: passcode protect sensitive data in a .zip file

specify the units in which you are collecting measurements!
make yourself a field journal with some prompts that you can fill in at the end of the day
- make this even easier by making it a Google form for yourself? Notion page?
- potential prompts
  - what was the weather like?
  - what did you work on today?
  - what did you forget that you need to bring with you?
if moving things around, be adjust viewing/editing permissions (if they have changed between one folder to another)

take out what you don’t want with filter() and select()
if you have multiple themes for different figures, create your own theme
work out your data processing workflow early on, when you don’t have a ton of data! (e.g. with sensor data, sequencing data, any type of data)

data validation to create drop-down menus to minimize errors in data entry in Google Sheets and Excel
trimws() in baseR takes out white spaces before and after a character

create an outline in Quarto or RMarkdown of your stats outputs to refer to when you’re writing your paper!