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[BurgersNFries]

I have 1007 recipes in my evernote cookbook, "A Moveable Feast." I include tags, pictures and links to recipes I find online, or make myself. I've made it publicly available and a lot of my friends and clients use it as well. You all can get to it here. Enjoy!

Lauren, wow... your photos are very enticing! You've done a great job. I think I'll be visiting your shared notebook every now & again! Thanks for sharing this!

[fumisme]

I have one notebook called Food & Nutrition, which includes recipes with tags like courses like "dessert" and "pasta" and foods like "chicken" and "chocolate." I also have articles on cooking as well as my notes on best ingredients to buy here. It occurs to me that my next best step would be to scan my recipes on index cards!

[Owyn]

I have 1007 recipes in my evernote cookbook, "A Moveable Feast." I include tags, pictures and links to recipes I find online, or make myself. I've made it publicly available and a lot of my friends and clients use it as well. You all can get to it here. Enjoy!

Lauren, wow... your photos are very enticing! You've done a great job. I think I'll be visiting your shared notebook every now & again! Thanks for sharing this!

Ditto. Linked. Thanks.

[pdw]

I love using Evernote to collect recipes. No matter where I come across a recipe, I can send it to Evernote. In a library book? Take a picture. On a discussion group or a mailing list? Forward to Evernote e-mail address with subject line filing and tagging. On the web? Evernote bookmarklet.

I don't do a lot of tagging, just minimal. I can make notes as to substitutions or changes made as I go along. No matter where I am, I can look up a recipe. I cook for multiple allergies, and can quickly tag whether a recipe is gluten-free, vegan, nut-free, etc. so that I can browse for something that works later on down the line.

I have lots of recipes on the computer in other formats, but Evernote is the first place that I look.

pdw

[linz]

I have 1007 recipes in my evernote cookbook, "A Moveable Feast." I include tags, pictures and links to recipes I find online, or make myself. I've made it publicly available and a lot of my friends and clients use it as well. You all can get to it here. Enjoy!

Awesome thanks!

[BurgersNFries]

And she added several new recipes today...they look great...

[Judi]

I currently have over 1100 recipes in a Recipes notebook, with tags for categories (maindish, side, appetizer, condiment, etc.), as well as for whether or not they are "meat" or "veg" (I'm vegetarian, hubby is not). Some recipes are tagged with both "meat" and "veg" if they can be adapted either way. I also have tags for "reference" as someone else mentioned above, for equivalencies, measurements, charts, tips, etc. Tags for "holiday" and "gift" also come in handy this time of year when I'm baking a lot for neighbors and co-workers. I clip a lot from the web, and hubby and I also scanned and dumped the hundreds and hundreds of pieces of paper I'd collected over the years, from hand-written recipes, those I'd printed from the web or torn out of magazines. In hindsight, I should have maybe created two notebooks, one for cooking and one for baking, although searching for tags makes it easy to find what I need.

I also add my own comments to each recipe, and copy/paste website comments that are helpful when clipping from the internet. One tag set I wish I had used early on is "weekday" or "quick," to find things to make after a long day at work.

One thing I need to figure out is a quick way to eliminate duplicates. I've found a few while looking for specific recipes, but I guess I had multiple print-outs of some recipes in my stacks.

[gikeda]

I really don't tag recipes with the conventional "Chicken", "Salad", or "Cookie" tags because those words are usually in the recipe. I tag recipes with ratings, "1 out of 5", "2 out of 5", etc. Also, I do a lot of Christmas cookie baking, so I also tag them with a "Xmas 2011" tag so I remember which recipes I used in a particular year.

[SallyQ]

I have collected recipes from magazine for years and I love the way I can organize them all in Evernote. I usually search for the recipe online and clip it. To cut out all the extraneous links and pictures I usually clip from a print preview version. If I am unable to find a recipe, online I either scan with my HTC phone (particularly handy on the fly...say in the Dr.'s office!) or with my HP scanner. I save to a notebook by main recipe type: desert, main dish, salad, etc. and the notebooks are in my "Cookbook" stack. I tag by favorite ingredients, "must try" recipes, etc. I also have tags relating to what where I might like to share them: Church social, husband's birthday, etc. When I make the recipe I will take a picture of the finished product (especially if the recipe has no accompanying photo), make notes of any substitutions I might make, when I made it and where i took it if it was for pot luck and such. A recipe gets a "Tried and true" tag if I like it.

I use Evenote to keep an ongoing shopping list but if I decide to make something on the spur of the moment, it is great to have all my recipes along when I am shopping.

Many time friends will ask me for the recipe of things I take to share with others. I love to share by sending a quick link to my notes for them to view.

I have also created a shared notebook of recipes to share with my extended family. I have gotten some great recipes that way.

Since I sew, quilt, knit and crochet, I also keep directions for my projects in much the same way.

[happy1]

Lauren - Great recipe notebook! I notice that I can search your recipes by tags...

The only tags showing in your shared notebook relate to recipes - does this mean that shared notebooks only show tags which appear in that particular notebook? (In other words, I'm not seeing any other personal tags so EITHER this is your only use for Evernote OR the shared notebook will only present tags which have been used for that particular notebook).

Hope that wasn't TOO confusing!!

[David Lozzi]

Yeah, I love EN for my recipes as well. Thumbing through cook books at the store, sneak a snap shot of a recipe i like and catalog it. Boom, i'm off and cooking!

[ummelmommy]

I'm trying to figure out how to begin to use Evernote as my main recipe storage answer. When you say you make notes about changes in ingredients, etc., how do you do that? I can't figure out how to easily make a comment in a note. Seems stupid, I know.

[Brandie]

Not stupid at all!

I would put those changes in parentheses so you know the difference from the original. Just open the note and edit away.

[Shepherd Jim]

Hi Fellow Foodies:

A few years ago I went through a "collecting recipes thing" -- did some research about chossing the best software in which to store all my treasures, and wound up using a program called AccuChef (mostly because of the slick Wizard it had for copying recipes from websites).

Anyway, I've since become an avid Evernote user, and now my wife has decided she wants to move HER recipes -- a collection of 3x5 cards, scribbled on scraps of paper inherited from her Mom and Nana, copied/pasted websites laser-printed 8 1/2 x 11's, etc. into digital recipe storage.

Her first digitizing priority at this point is the assimilation of her "family recipes" = handwritten 3x5s and paper scraps -- she's prepared to type them in from scratch.

Questions: ---------------------------

1) Has anyone had any experience moving their recipe collection back and/or forth to/from Evernote and any of the many recipe programs available?

2) Many of the recipe programs out there automatically deal with fractions typed in as "2 1/2 C." or "3 1/4 T." rather than "2.5" or "3.25". Does anyone have any thoughts about a "standard" to adopt to minimize confusion and maybe ease sharing and/or moving recipes to different software?

3) My wife does not as yet have any experience with Evernote. I'm thinking that I might set up a "recipe template" to help her keep things organized while she's typing.

E.g.

Recipe Title:
# Served:
Description:
Ingredients:
Instructions (stepbystep):
Info:

...any thoughts?

Thank you for any thoughts and conversation!

Jim,
Bristol, Maine USA

[happy1]

Along the lines of Shepherd Jim's questions...

When scanning in 3X5 cards, handwritten scraps, would you suggest using pdf setting on scanner OR as a jpg. A pdf requires an additional click to see the recipe, but I'm also wondering about the ability to search in the recipe if using jpg.

[lennaz]

Hello all,
i was trying to organize my recipe in evernote (they come from website, magazines, books, handwritten notes, transcription and so...)
using tags categorization is not a problem, my main concern is about coherence; i need (and i want of course) all my recipe looking the same. Same font, same sequence (servings/background details/ingridients even divided in various part as main and fillings/photos if presents/directions/personal notes) and this is a real pain to do! especially with clipped recipe, they are totally messed up when i try to hand edit them, HTML from clipped website makes line break inconsistent for example...
any suggestion? do you keep recipe as they are? do you "rewrite" them? do you fix them once clipped? any way to "remove" all HTML from clipped pages?

thank you!

[Candid]

Hello all,
i was trying to organize my recipe in evernote (they come from website, magazines, books, handwritten notes, transcription and so...)
using tags categorization is not a problem, my main concern is about coherence; i need (and i want of course) all my recipe looking the same. Same font, same sequence (servings/background details/ingridients even divided in various part as main and fillings/photos if presents/directions/personal notes) and this is a real pain to do! especially with clipped recipe, they are totally messed up when i try to hand edit them, HTML from clipped website makes line break inconsistent for example...
any suggestion? do you keep recipe as they are? do you "rewrite" them? do you fix them once clipped? any way to "remove" all HTML from clipped pages?

thank you!

When I need to remove formatting from text, I paste it into Notepad which does not support html. Then I copy and paste the text out of that notepad document.

[peterfmartin]

When I need to remove formatting from text, I paste it into Notepad which does not support html. Then I copy and paste the text out of that notepad document.

I do the same with Notational Velocity or FormatMatch (both Mac-only).

[coho]

Am amazed by Laurens collection. I am new to evernote, have saved some notes, but really don't understand how to create an organized recipe collection. IE i have lots of recipes on word docs & emails, no pics, but not sure how to get a recipe collection started in evernote with tags etc. Am on a mac & don't see the screen shot option or the other options when I researched how to send to evernote. Am looking for the best way re time to send recipes to evernote, so any help or helpful links would be appreciated, thanks!

[Candid]

Am amazed by Laurens collection. I am new to evernote, have saved some notes, but really don't understand how to create an organized recipe collection. IE i have lots of recipes on word docs & emails, no pics, but not sure how to get a recipe collection started in evernote with tags etc. Am on a mac & don't see the screen shot option or the other options when I researched how to send to evernote. Am looking for the best way re time to send recipes to evernote, so any help or helpful links would be appreciated, thanks!

Are all your recipes in one folder on your computer? Or in several organized folders (dessert, beverages, etc.)? If so Evernote can import all the files in a folder. In the Windows version this is located under "Tools" and is called "Import Folders" Evernote can be set to import any folder you chose and will continue to monitor that folder if you want.

If all the files are in one big folder, you may wish to go through them after, Evernote imports them and add tags indicating what type of recipe they are.