socal78
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Btw, does anyone here use a kitchen Ipad [edit: or tablet]? If so, do you like it?
I don't have an Ipad but I do have a problem. I just finished my 3rd volume of cookbook that I've been working on collectively for about 20 years. I'm about to start a 4th. I want to but I don't want to. They are so big and heavy. It is getting to be ridiculous. It is tiresome dragging these big binders to my kitchen and finding the counter space to use them. Despite having tabs separating everything by category, I often forget which recipe is in which book and have to spend 15 minutes frantically flipping pages to find them while I freak out that I lost it. Some recipes fit under more than one category. But, I like the old-fashioned recipe card & pencil way. I make a lot of notes.
I don't know if doing it digital would work. Mr. SoCal says I should scan all my recipe cards to create digital files that I can look at while i'm cooking and also index them so they're easy to find. He says if I don't do it now, one day he's going to find my lifeless body under a fallen stack of cookbooks. I think there would be a lot of inaccuracies doing it that way if they were transcribed by a computer in any fashion. That scares me. I've thought about hiring somebody to manually type them all up. I am a fast typer... I've tried doing it myself but still got tired of how slow it was going due to the format. That was just the first 25 or so. I have roughly 500 recipes to input. I'm also kind of scared to put an Ipad in the kitchen where it can get splattered or shattered.
How do you guys organize all of yours? To go digital or not -- that is the question. I have to decide soon, before I start the 4th binder.
I don't have an Ipad but I do have a problem. I just finished my 3rd volume of cookbook that I've been working on collectively for about 20 years. I'm about to start a 4th. I want to but I don't want to. They are so big and heavy. It is getting to be ridiculous. It is tiresome dragging these big binders to my kitchen and finding the counter space to use them. Despite having tabs separating everything by category, I often forget which recipe is in which book and have to spend 15 minutes frantically flipping pages to find them while I freak out that I lost it. Some recipes fit under more than one category. But, I like the old-fashioned recipe card & pencil way. I make a lot of notes.
I don't know if doing it digital would work. Mr. SoCal says I should scan all my recipe cards to create digital files that I can look at while i'm cooking and also index them so they're easy to find. He says if I don't do it now, one day he's going to find my lifeless body under a fallen stack of cookbooks. I think there would be a lot of inaccuracies doing it that way if they were transcribed by a computer in any fashion. That scares me. I've thought about hiring somebody to manually type them all up. I am a fast typer... I've tried doing it myself but still got tired of how slow it was going due to the format. That was just the first 25 or so. I have roughly 500 recipes to input. I'm also kind of scared to put an Ipad in the kitchen where it can get splattered or shattered.
How do you guys organize all of yours? To go digital or not -- that is the question. I have to decide soon, before I start the 4th binder.
