Yup. We feel the same way. Electronic Lab Notebooks are a daunting undertaking and we decided to tackle a problem that we knew we could make a dent in the first pass.
Definitely the way to go, especially given that Quartzy (or something like it) is essentially a necessary precondition for a useful electronic laboratory notebook system, so if you did decide to someday go there, you'd have some of the plumbing done already.
