brycewang-stanford Obsidian Experiment Log
Use this skill whenever project work changes the experimental state.
Role in the workflow
This is a supporting skill under obsidian-project-memory.
It should help maintain canonical experiment and result notes, not create note sprawl.
Default outputs
- the relevant canonical note in
Experiments/ - the relevant canonical note in
Results/, if a durable finding exists - links from today's
Daily/note - relevant hub or plan references only when project state materially changes
Main rules
- Prefer updating an existing experiment note over creating a sibling note for the same experiment line.
- Prefer updating an existing result note over creating a parallel result page for the same durable finding.
- Raw logs, metric dumps, and temporary analysis fragments should usually stay in
Daily/until they are interpreted. - A result note should exist only when the outcome is stable enough to reference later.
Minimum experiment sections
- Goal / hypothesis
- Code or config entrypoint
- Dataset / split
- Metrics
- Status (
planned,running,done,failed) - Findings / notes
- Next step
Minimum result sections
- Linked experiment
- Main observation
- Key numbers
- Evidence
- Interpretation
- Decision: keep / iterate / discard
Linking rule
Link experiments and results directly to each other, and link both back to 00-Hub.md, 01-Plan.md, or Daily/ only when those references improve the main working surface.
Research path handoff
Treat experiment notes as the bridge between Papers/ and Results/:
- paper-derived hypotheses, baselines, and ablations should land here,
- stable findings should be promoted from here into
Results/, - when a result becomes claim-worthy, update
Writing/rather than leaving the chain unfinished.