Some days I feel like I am learning as I go... will ya fall for that one? Okay, well that's what I'm going with. I've spent the last 10 + years collecting recipes and hording cookbooks. Only now have I begun to be so organized.
We all know I have two boxes of recipes and a couple of binders, and that I just bought The Living Cookbook software to put all of these recipes together. I am only putting tried and true recipes into my Living Cookbook, which leaves a lot of recipes still running loose.
I will be keeping my binders when all is said and done, to corral all the magazine clippings and printed emails. As for the many pages I used to print out, well those I am now pinning to My Recipe Board on Pinterest. Once I try the recipe, if we love it, the recipe will go into a cookbook on Living Cookbook. If we don't love it, I will delete it from my pin board and make room for new recipes.
With the plans I have for the direction I want to take SLMPetersen, I am going to need my recipes at my finger tips. Where I can pull what I need when I need it. I have been sorting thought piles of cards and clips for years...know that I had that recipe, but it's always a struggle to put my finger on it when I think of it. That is going to be changing as I implement my new software and recipe catalog.
I have a lot of ideas on how to make this new system work hard for me, rather than me working hard to find my recipes. There will be a number of new things happening as I build my new product line and recipes are going to play a big part in all of this. Stay tuned.
Sounds like you are busy and loving it! We just got a new computer and as soon as it has MS Office on it I am going to be putting our recipes into an Access database. I too want to be able to put my fingers on a recipe in seconds instead of hours. Here's to being organized--mostly.
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