Brewing Journal System

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I'd like to design a journaling system for wine/beer making.

Something that would be useful for reproducing someone's steps, following their reasoning, and scaling recipes up/down.

Drawing inspiration from Lab Book standards:

• Bound notebooks with numbered pages and table of contents.
• Always use pen
• permanent ink, never pencil, never erasable.
• Record data on the right side of each page. This leaves the left side of each page available as scratch paper, for quick notes, or for unexpected recordings on the day of the experiment.
• Write down everything immediately.
• Record all data, including measurements and observations, as they happen in lab. A common mistake is to think that you will remember things to write down later. Always include units with measurements and record values with the proper number of significant figures according to the precision of the measurement device.
• Be complete, yet concise, and write clearly.
• If you make a mistake when writing something, strikethrough the erroneous entry by drawing a line through it. Then, write your correction next to the strikethrough. This applies to single words or even large sections that need to be corrected. The original entry should still be legible behind the strikethrough. Do not use white out and never erase anything.

Design first for paper, with a guide for digitizing. Maybe LaTeX would be a good format, so the notes could be published in a consistent style.