5 hours ago, Bernie said:Its fine to have lots of information (even at home) but if it takes a long time to find anything it becomes useless.
@Bernie, tell it.
I wanna go back to albums. With label-maker labels. Preferably that my mom made, but . . . .
On the recipes. Sigh.
I'm currently toggling between EatYourBooks plus my Evernote file. My EatYourBooks is not complete, Im still, slowly-by-slowly, uploaded my personal file. Honestly, I don't think the family recipes will ever make it there (or anywhere electronic); but I also think that my family recipes are lodged in a place in my memory to where -- when I want them, I'll remember that, and know where to reach.
Thsi just isn't true for anything acquired after about 39.
But -- before I was hipped to EatYourBooks, I used to have a ritual of rounds -- a round through the binders; a round through the card file; a round through the Evernote; and finally a round through the Main Books.
**I will note -- for much of my life, I did have a really very good memory for food. I couldn't remember a recipe, but I could remember that I had grabbed something interesting re this particular ingredient, and then go hunting; so the rounds were more like trying to find something I already knew was there.
That, I think, has become a thing of my youth which is now extinct. At a minimum -- it's reliability is extinct. Which I noticed first at work. Now I come across shit I swear I've never seen before . . . .
Anyway -- this laborious but regular search-function did actually have the side-effect of severely narrowing my notion of which recipes were worth clipping. Anything that was even a little similar to something I already knew? Nah.
So I don't add as much as I used to. And the metrics are different -- it really has to be *new* to get clipped for trial.
Which may be a kind of doom . . . .
