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Posted by Tiggerlou
Mar 26, 2022 at 08:49 PM
Thanks for the tip about Recipe Card.
It would certainly save me some time to parse the instructions and ingredients, especially since there tends to be so much useless, superfluous fluff in online recipes. “So this is a picture of an onion…. and this is a picture of an onion after you slice it one time… And ohhh, lemme me tell you *three times* about how excited I am about this recipe and how it reminds me of when I lived in Ohio because I had a dog and we used to run around the back yard.” etc etc etc.
I even strip out the words ‘ingredients’ and ‘instructions’ from recipes. Seriously, if someone says “cook until the vegetables are soft”, that is not an ingredient. I’m guessing most people can tell the difference ;-) As far as I’m concerned the less fluff and extraneous text, the better. I will sometimes save the introductory text if it’s useful and interesting. For example, Asian-American chefs, telling us where to find substitutions for obscure ingredients—that I saved. But the story about the dog? Nah. I love dogs but they don’t help me cook.
Re: printing recipes. One of the major reasons for my purchase of a tablet was so I would never have to do that again. Before that time, I had a huge heap of stained printouts with barely legible handwritten update notes that never got transcribed back into the recipe. Now, all I have to do is (wipe my hands clean,then..) enter those edits directly into the saved recipe. Done.
I’ve been adding lots of edits into recipes for decades (in italics) and using Evernote has changed that dramatically. For example, tagging all the major ingredients, sorting recipes by regional cooking style, important appliances like air fryer, portions of a chicken, savory vs sweet baking, etc. That makes these recipes files all the more precious to save. I essentially have a fully indexed, very detailed cookbook, assembled from dozens of print books and hundreds of online recipes.
I always save the URL (thanks for the tip about that), thanks to the Evernote web clipper. There have been times when I wanted to go back to the original source and I’m glad to still have that.
Steve wrote:
I understand your challenge with recipes and where to keep them. I’ve
>used https://www.zoho.com/notebook/ for a number of years. Two items I
>like:
>1. They have a script called Recipe Card. When you are on a supported
>recipe website and find one you want, it will parse the instructions and
>ingredients into a nice card for you.
>2. Reader View kind of strips out much of the noise on the page you want
>so you can add it to your notebook.
>
>Items I do not like:
>1. The recipes you added using their Recipe Card can not be printed.
>2. Cards you add by highlighting text, then adding to the notebook do
>not have the URL where you got it. You need to remember to do that
>yourself. Though, Reader View card can be edited and do include the
>URL.
>
>Syncing is OK. Sometimes I think it gets confused and takes a long time.
> BUT, the desktop version does a fine job.
>
Posted by satis
Mar 27, 2022 at 12:28 AM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
> I might try OneNote. It has a pretty good Evernote import process.
>
>Steve
Microsoft ceased development of its Evernote importer tool years ago and while it remains available for download many people have reported significant import problems using it over the last couple of years. There is an open source, 3rd party app you could try: https://tools.stefankueng.com/Evernote2Onenote.html
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Mar 27, 2022 at 02:55 AM
Tiggerlou wrote:
> I’ve got a very large collection of recipes in Evernote (...) but I’m already experiencing some serious problems with syncing. So I don’t feel entirely secure with Evernote (...)
>A note I created in Evernote on iPhone about an hour and a half ago STILL has not successfully sync’d (...)
I sync regularly between desktop (Windows) and my phone (Android). Works flawlessly and within a few seconds.
As a developer of an app that syncs with Evernote (InfoQube IM) using the supplied SDK, I’ve seen similar issues in the past, myself and as reported by other IQ users.
In most cases, these were related to the account. Try the following:
1- Open you account settings
2- Select the Applications (left pane)
3- revoke access to all apps and services.
4- Reconnect your apps and devices
(With InfoQube, at times, there would be multiple entries, not sure yet how this happens, but clearing the list gets things back on track)
Evernote does have some outstanding features (take a picture of a recipe and it does OCR for you). OneNote is a different beast… IMHO Notion would be a better match if you still want to exit EN
Pierre Paul Landry
IQ Designer
https://infoqube.biz
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Mar 27, 2022 at 02:05 PM
Hi Tiggerlou - I wonder if Notezilla could work for you. It calls itself a sticky notes program, but it offers many note taking features - I think of Notezilla as a note taking program. It works on Windows, IOS, Android
https://www.conceptworld.com/Notezilla/WhatsNew
Notezilla lets you have a list of notes in a table which has columns, create a table within notes, put photos in notes, have more than one note open at a time, etc.
Daly
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Mar 28, 2022 at 02:48 PM
Tiggerlou, another program is UpNote. It might work for you.
Daly