The Lab notebook is an essential part of your daily journal. You keep the lab notebook as follows:

• 1. Get a sprial bound note book, with lined paper.
• 2. Number all the pages.
• 3. Reserve the first 10 pages as the table of contents.
• 4. Write table of contents on the first 10 pages.
• 5. When ever you make an entry into the notebook, date the entry.
• 6. Whenever you make a discovery, show it, in the notebook, to a friend. Have them sign over a straight line that has their name printed...
  
  Read and Understood _____________
  Name: Persons' name
• 7. Use the table of contents to organize the notebook.

This is the correct procedure to legally document inventions for a court of law. It is also very good to title and date your notebooks. Keep them forever. Never tear a page out of a notebook.

All good engineers should have a notebook.