Thanks to all for your inputs.
What I find hard is the fact that I run many experiments, then organize my
data day to day. Probably less than 10% of the data will be used for
publication. I also have to put the data together for all kinds of
presentations: lab meeting, group meeting and conference meeting. PPT
definitely helps a lot for this part of my work.
Another issue is that It's hard to put my data together using photoshop,
especially if I need to label my western blots or microscopic pictures. If
only <10% of the work will end up in publication, I feel like a lot of waste
of time.
I bet many of you also having this issue. How to better handle this?