What is Signals Notebook

Signals Notebook is an electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) that lets you keep all files related to an experiment in one place. The software vendor, Revvity Signals, describes it as a tool ‘for multidisciplinary collaboration and scientifically intelligent data management’.

Retirement of Signals Notebook (Individual Edition)

The current version of Signals Notebook (Individual Edition) will be retired on 1 March 2025. To avoid losing your data, you must copy and move all your notebooks to the new version, Signals Notebook Standard Edition, before this date. Notebooks that are not moved by 1 March will be permanently deleted.

Considerations before copying and moving notebooks

Before copying and moving your notebooks, please consider the following:

  • All experiments must belong to a Notebook to be copied and moved
  • Copied notebooks will not retain any change history
  • Experiments in copied notebooks will lose their original review status (e.g. Active, In Review, Closed). After moving them to Notebook Standard Edition, all experiments will be set to ‘Active’
  • Moving an experiment will fail if the destination notebook already contains an experiment with the same name. To avoid this, select the "Create a new Notebook" option during the move
  • Additional criteria can be found in Revvity's online guide, How to transfer experiments from Signals Notebook Individual Edition to Signals Notebook Standard Edition (page 3)

For these reasons, Revvity recommends exporting backup copies of your experiment data as PDF files. This preserves a record of your change history and review status. To export to a PDF file, follow the steps in How to export Notebooks to Zip.

For more information on what’s happening and the next steps, please refer to Revitvity's support page.

How to copy your Notebooks from Individual Edition

Follow these steps to copy your notebooks:

  1. Sign in to Signals Notebook Individual Edition.
  2. Open the notebook(s) you want to copy.
  3. Select the three-dot menu and choose ‘Export to Zip’.
  4. Your notebook will be saved as a ‘.snb.notebook’ file.
  5. Repeat these steps for each notebook you need to copy.

How to move your Notebooks to Standard Edition

Follow these steps to move your notebooks:

  1. Sign in to Signals Notebook Standard Edition using your University username and password.
  2. Within the Apps section, select Signals.
  3. Select your name from the top right-hand corner and select ‘Import Notebook from File’.
  4. Choose the .snb.notebook file you want to upload.
  5. Click on ‘Import’ to complete the transfer.

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