Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
![]() |
|
Wine (alt.food.wine) Devoted to the discussion of wine and wine-related topics. A place to read and comment about wines, wine and food matching, storage systems, wine paraphernalia, etc. In general, any topic related to wine is valid fodder for the group. |
Reply |
|
LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
|||
|
|||
![]()
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 |
|
|||
|
|||
![]() |
|
|||
|
|||
![]() |
Reply |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
![]() |
||||
Thread | Forum | |||
A PDF document on the history of Rioja | Wine | |||
Finally a good word for extremism (Funny) | General Cooking | |||
Wine Journal Template | Wine | |||
Wine Journal | Wine | |||
Wine Cellar Journal Templete | Wine |