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Documents in Dalea look like a notebook page but they are made of structured blocks. A paragraph is a block. A protocol step is a block. A 96-well plate map is a block. This means everything you write is automatically searchable, referenceable from other places, and — when you publish a template — reusable.

Create the document

  1. Open the workspace home
    Sidebar → workspace name

    From any page, click your workspace name. You land on the workspace home with quick-access cards for Documents, Data, Inventory, Templates.

  2. Click Documents → New document

    Pick a project to drop it into (or "Unsorted"). Give it a title — something operational like Plasma collection — IFN-γ kinetics, mouse #M-12 is more useful than Notes.

  3. Type a heading and a paragraph

    The editor is plain — type Markdown-style or just write. # at the start of a line becomes a heading.

  4. Add a block

    Type / to open the slash menu. Try inserting a protocol step block. Fill in the duration, the reagents, the hazard level. Add another step. These will live in the document but also be queryable by Dalea's AI assistant.

Here is what a small protocol looks like once you've added a few protocol-step blocks. Click each step to "run" it — Dalea timestamps the action and logs the operator:

IFN-γ ELISA · Capture protocol0/4 steps complete
  • Coat plate with capture antibody
    Low hazard 8s demo (real procedure: hours)

    Coat each well of a 96-well high-binding plate with anti-IFN-γ capture antibody (clone 2G1). Incubate overnight at 4 °C.

    PPE: glovesReagents: Anti-IFN-γ capture mAb (100 µL @ 2 µg/mL) · Coating buffer (PBS) (q.s.)
  • Block non-specific binding
    No hazard 6s demo (real procedure: hours)

    Wash 3× with PBS-T. Add 200 µL of blocking buffer (PBS + 1% BSA). Incubate 1 h at room temperature.

    PPE: glovesReagents: PBS-T (0.05% Tween-20) (300 µL/well × 3) · BSA blocking buffer (200 µL/well)
  • Add standards and samples
    Low hazard 6s demo (real procedure: hours)

    Pipette 100 µL of standards (8-point, 2-fold dilution from 4000 pg/mL) and samples in duplicate. Cover, incubate 2 h at room temperature.

    PPE: gloves, labcoatReagents: Recombinant IFN-γ standard (see dilution table) · Plasma samples (100 µL/well, duplicate)
  • Develop with TMB
    Medium hazard 6s demo (real procedure: hours)

    After detection antibody and HRP-streptavidin binding, add 100 µL TMB substrate. Stop after 15 min with 50 µL 2 N H₂SO₄. Read at OD₄₅₀.

    PPE: gloves, goggles, labcoatReagents: TMB substrate (100 µL/well) · Stop solution (2 N H₂SO₄) (50 µL/well)
Click a step number to run it — Dalea logs the timestamp, executor and any notes against the step, creating an auditable run record.
A four-step ELISA capture protocol. In production each timestamp is recorded against your user.

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Protocols are just one of two dozen block types. Some you'll reach for first:

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Inline spreadsheet with formulas and validation.

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Equations, code, file embeds, callouts, plates.

Multiplayer is on by default

Anyone in the workspace with edit permission can open the document at the same time. You'll see their cursor and selection in real time. There is no "save" button — every keystroke is synced live and added to the version history.

To revert, click Version history in the document header. Use it liberally; restoring a version is reversible.

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