This scratchpad is part of an EDIT Integration Research Grant entitled "Generic Review of the Velvet Spiders (Araneae: Eresidae) with a Taxonomic Revision of the African Genus Gandanameno." Our objective is to create an electronic manuscript to be submitted to the journal ZooKeys following the workflow model pioneered by Blagoderov et al. 2010 (Zookeys 50: 17–28, doi:10.3897/zookeys.50.539).