I'm looking to keep a journal but my hand writing is terrible! Looking
for a good wine journal possibly in a word document format or some
type of electronic format.
Any help would be appreciated.
Skenzer

skenzer > wrote:

> I'm looking to keep a journal but my hand writing is terrible!
> Looking for a good wine journal possibly in a word document
> format or some type of electronic format.

I don't know it personally, but there is something on the web
called "Cellar Tracker", it's a kind of journal you keep on the
web (and others can read it too).

M.

skenzer > wrote:

> I'm looking to keep a journal but my hand writing is terrible!
> Looking for a good wine journal possibly in a word document
> format or some type of electronic format.

I don't know it personally, but there is something on the web
called "Cellar Tracker", it's a kind of journal you keep on the
web (and others can read it too).

M.

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 17:51:07 -0400, skenzer >
wrote:

>I'm looking to keep a journal but my hand writing is terrible! Looking
>for a good wine journal possibly in a word document format or some
>type of electronic format.

What are you looking for in a "good wine journal" that you could not
achieve by simply using Word? If we knew that we could maybe better
answer your question better. I suspect you would probably find a
spreadsheet more amenable.

Personally I write my wine notes in an ordinary text file. I use a
simple structured format involving semicolons and newlines so I
can process the file and put the results in a database if necessary.

--
Steve Slatcher
http://pobox.com/~steve.slatcher

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 17:51:07 -0400, skenzer >
wrote:

>I'm looking to keep a journal but my hand writing is terrible! Looking
>for a good wine journal possibly in a word document format or some
>type of electronic format.

What are you looking for in a "good wine journal" that you could not
achieve by simply using Word? If we knew that we could maybe better
answer your question better. I suspect you would probably find a
spreadsheet more amenable.

Personally I write my wine notes in an ordinary text file. I use a
simple structured format involving semicolons and newlines so I
can process the file and put the results in a database if necessary.

--
Steve Slatcher
http://pobox.com/~steve.slatcher

Steve Slatcher wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 17:51:07 -0400, skenzer >
> wrote:
>
>
>>I'm looking to keep a journal but my hand writing is terrible! Looking
>>for a good wine journal possibly in a word document format or some
>>type of electronic format.
>
>
> What are you looking for in a "good wine journal" that you could not
> achieve by simply using Word? If we knew that we could maybe better
> answer your question better. I suspect you would probably find a
> spreadsheet more amenable.
>
> Personally I write my wine notes in an ordinary text file. I use a
> simple structured format involving semicolons and newlines so I
> can process the file and put the results in a database if necessary.
>
For many of my wines I download a review from Wine Spectator or Wine
Advocate--print two copies. One I stick in the bin where I am storing
it, the other I put in a binder. On the binder copy I write my
evaluation of the wine, dates purchased, consumed, etc. Once in the
binder, you can divide by country, grape, etc. I tried several digital
products and found that I was too lazy to keep them up. With hard copy
near my wine glass, it's easier to keep current. Also the binder is a
pleasant way to remember times past.

Steve Slatcher wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 17:51:07 -0400, skenzer >
> wrote:
>
>
>>I'm looking to keep a journal but my hand writing is terrible! Looking
>>for a good wine journal possibly in a word document format or some
>>type of electronic format.
>
>
> What are you looking for in a "good wine journal" that you could not
> achieve by simply using Word? If we knew that we could maybe better
> answer your question better. I suspect you would probably find a
> spreadsheet more amenable.
>
> Personally I write my wine notes in an ordinary text file. I use a
> simple structured format involving semicolons and newlines so I
> can process the file and put the results in a database if necessary.
>
For many of my wines I download a review from Wine Spectator or Wine
Advocate--print two copies. One I stick in the bin where I am storing
it, the other I put in a binder. On the binder copy I write my
evaluation of the wine, dates purchased, consumed, etc. Once in the
binder, you can divide by country, grape, etc. I tried several digital
products and found that I was too lazy to keep them up. With hard copy
near my wine glass, it's easier to keep current. Also the binder is a
pleasant way to remember times past.

"Steve Slatcher" in ...
>
> What are you looking for in a "good wine journal" that you
> could not achieve by simply using Word? If we knew that we
> could maybe better answer your question better. I suspect
> you would probably find a spreadsheet more amenable.
>
> Personally I write my wine notes in an ordinary text file. ...


This and related issues ("anybody know good cellar-tracking software?") are
perennial on wine discussion forums in the Internet Age, generating much
thoughtful discussion. My own view resembles that from Steve Slatcher
above. An advantage of common-denominator general-purpose text or
spreadsheet programs is their built-in portability. This is not something
to underestimate. I can send a Word(tm) or Excel(tm) file to myself at
other sites, or to other people, and the file is useful. This has diverted
me from specialized software, for many years. (When I started putting my
wine inventory on a computer circa 1981 -- I've posted data points from
there occasionally -- it was in just a general-purpose text file, sorting by
columns as needed. Spreadsheets are far more powerful, and are widely and
cheaply available.)

I don't find these issues as imposing as the burden of transcribing endless
pages of on-paper inventory and shipping receipts into a computer in the
first place -- in whatever format. To say nothing of transcribing what
sometimes gets casually requested: paper Tasting Notes back to, let's see,
1977 -- consider that such a corpus of data is two years older than public
Internet forums (taking as reference Bellovin's 1979 development of
newsgroups at UNC-CH -- the first generation of the tools you are now using
to read these words). Best not even to think about it at all.

Cheers -- Max

In article >,
says...
>
>I'm looking to keep a journal but my hand writing is terrible! Looking
>for a good wine journal possibly in a word document format or some
>type of electronic format.
>Any help would be appreciated.
>Skenzer

Life-style Software's Wine, is both a cellar log/database, and tasting note
catalog. You can export the data in several formats, and, if you choose, there
are additional tasting criteria, which you can use and incorporate. I have
used this program for many years, and rate it about a 9. I use most parts of
it, but do not know if it is still available. Seems it cost about $US 49 some
ten, twelve years ago.

Hunt

In article >,
says...
>
>I'm looking to keep a journal but my hand writing is terrible! Looking
>for a good wine journal possibly in a word document format or some
>type of electronic format.
>Any help would be appreciated.
>Skenzer

Life-style Software's Wine, is both a cellar log/database, and tasting note
catalog. You can export the data in several formats, and, if you choose, there
are additional tasting criteria, which you can use and incorporate. I have
used this program for many years, and rate it about a 9. I use most parts of
it, but do not know if it is still available. Seems it cost about $US 49 some
ten, twelve years ago.

Hunt