Practical things, written for people who have a bench to get back to.
Free to read, free to copy into your own lab documentation, no signup. Some of them mention woodle; none of them need it.
All guides
Handing over a project when someone leaves
A four-week checklist, and the three things that always get lost.
Writing the data management plan for a DBT or SERB proposal
The five questions every funder is really asking, and paragraphs you can adapt.
A file naming scheme a lab will actually keep to
Four rules, and why longer names beat deeper folders.
What to do about the instrument PC
Windows 7, no patches, three years of data. How to make it safe without breaking it.
Backing up a lab that cannot afford to lose a year
3-2-1 adapted to a one-time budget, and the test that tells you it works.
Writing a protocol someone else can actually follow
The five things that always go missing, and a format that fits on two pages.
When a reviewer asks for your source data
The email about a figure from three years ago, and the half-hour that prevents it.
A new student's first fortnight
What to set up before they arrive, and the four habits that are hard to add later.
Sharing data with a collaborator without losing track of it
Four things to agree in writing before the first file moves.
Choosing an ELN when nobody in your lab does IT
Five questions that decide it, and the one that decides most of it.
Moving a lab off paper without losing the back catalogue
What is worth scanning, what to retype, and what to leave on the shelf.