[Red_Devil 232]

Everybody! Thanks to a post by MissMagnolia over on the gardening thread I have found a program that will allow me to save FReeper recipes I might want to try someday. I just do a copy and paste it in the new program called RedNotebook.

Quote from: MissMagnolia "You can post pictures and links. It is SEARCHABLE ….. there is a ‘word cloud’ so you can click on a word, but I use the ‘tags’ extensively that they allow you to set up. For instance, I have a tag called “Gardening”. If I put ‘Gardening’ in the search box, it will pull up every entry made under that tag, in date order. Today, I have had two entries, both about the new camellias we bought. I can look at the date list under ‘Gardening’ and see exactly when we got those camellias. I can also just search under the word ‘camellia’ and every time I used that word, the entry will show up."

I have just started using it this morning and have (copied&paste) saved a couple of recipes from last week thread. Here is a screen shot of the program:

The center area is where you enter comments into your Journal, you can have as many Journals as you want (cooking, gardening, projects, hobbies) about anything you would want to have a searchable journal for. The right side is for your Tags and the left side is a calendar that shows the entry date below the calendar is a search box and below that is a word cloud click on a word and it will bring up all your entries that contain that word.

Thought some of you might like to try it. It is FREE.

Download the freeware for RedNotebook from here.

At the top of the RedNotebook page if you click on Screenshots it will bring up a demonstration video (it is hard to follow because the commenter moves fast through the demo.)

This is a screenshot from the RedNotebook web page showing an inserted picture and some statistics.

[MissMagnolia]

So ..... you really, really like it? :-) This just makes my day!

[MissMagnolia]

BTW, don’t know how you are setting up your ‘tags’, but you could have something like ‘Recipes - Vegetables’ & then tag all of your vegetable side dish recipes (for example) with that tag. A recipe could also have multiple tags ..... ‘Recipes - Casseroles’, ‘Recipes - Super Simple’, Recipes - Favorites (Tried and True), etc. I am assuming that you are doing the recipes in a multi-use journal (recipes, gardening, etc.)

If you set up a separate journal on RedNotebook JUST for recipes, you could leave the ‘recipes’ off the tag and just have ‘Vegetables’ or something like that. You may find if you go this simple route, that you need to make the tag ‘Vegetables Tag’ or something other word added like that ....otherwise, every time you search for your ‘Vegetables’ tag, it will pull up every instance of the use of the word ‘vegetable’, in addition to the list of Recipes under that tag. I learned this lesson the hard way when I listed all of my hikes under the tag ‘Hikes’. I had to change it to ‘Hike Tag’ - then I got only a date-order listing of all my hikes.