Evernote was robust and seemed up for the challenge. You can store everything and almost anything that counts as content.Īnyway, it wasn’t until I was on the verge of starting the Culinary Nutrition Expert Program that I realized I had to get my recipe box, online and offline, organized into some semblance of a system… if not, there is every reason to believe I could have been buried alive amidst all my recipes. There are even Presentation (slide shows) and Discussion (chatting/collaborating) options within Evernote. I have documents attached to my To Do List folder (everything else goes in Asana, my other life- and sanity-saving software program, we’ll talk about that another day though.) how to take a screenshot on my Mac… it’s true), business advice, inspirational news articles to read or videos to watch (copy the link from YouTube or wherever), digitize business cards, add cookbooks for saving/reading later… on and on. I now use it for so many things the list is truly endless: cooking products or nutrition services, food research, quick access to tech tutorials or how-tos that I reference often and still can’t remember (e.g. Like the My New Root’s Life-Changing Loaf of Bread recipe, you could go so far as to say that Evernote, for me, was life-changing.

Several years ago I started using Evernote and it’s the kind of tech solution that can change your life. Now I have one, so let me tell you about one of my favourite tech secrets for saving, searching, tagging and actually using the recipes I collect.īasically my system makes building a recipe library quick, simple and fully searchable. What I didn’t have was one easy, convenient and most of all, searchable recipe catalogue. I had lots of recipes, meal ideas, meal inspiration. That used to be my life… and you can imagine what my kitchen looked like. Some of the binders were literally bursting at the seams because there were so many recipes that inspired me and that I couldn’t wait to try. Handwritten recipes on paper, cards or even scraps of napkin, recipes printed off blogs (with due credit of course!), recipes yanked from glossy magazines (Alive Magazine now… and maybe Cooking Light back in the day), and of course the occasional typed recipe…

Picture this: Binders of all shapes and sizes stuffed with recipes.

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