Introduction

ELNPack is a desktop app for creating ELN archives you can import into ELNs like eLabFTW. Everything runs locally—no network access required. This guide shows how to install, record an experiment, attach your data, and export the archive.

Tip

Do all of this entirely offline. Ideal for use in labs with limited network access:

Copy the ELN archive to a USB drive and import it into eLabFTW from another computer with proper network access.

Prerequisites

• Prebuilt binaries are available for:
  • Windows 10+ on x86_64, and arm64
  • macOS on x86_64, and arm64
  • GNU/Linux on x86, x86_64, and arm64.
• For other operating systems or architectures, you can build ELNPack from source.
• For a full list of supported OS and CPU combinations, see Rust Platform Support.

Warning

Windows XP and earlier are not supported. Supporting very old and current operating systems at the same time is difficult due to missing APIs, libraries, and compiler support.

There is limited compiler support for Windows 7. You can try to build ELNPack for Windows 7 yourself.

What you can do

• Set the experiment date/time.
• Write experiment notes in the Markdown editors.
• Add keywords to your experiment.
• Describe your experiment using metadata. Import existing metadata from eLabFTW extra field JSON files.
• Attach arbitrary files.
• Export an ELN archive compatible with eLabFTW.

License

This User Guide is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).