Question for the cooks

[resonant]

How do you manage your recipe collection?

For a long time, I was perfectly happy with my card file. But then I started using tags for LJ/DW, and now everything in life that doesn't have tags is really annoying to me, because why can't one recipe be under Poultry and Grilling and Quick & Easy and Summer and Kidlet's Favorites?

Also, it would be handy to be able to link up a recipe with a side dish that works really well with it, or with another one that uses up the leftover roast chicken or the other half of that tub of ricotta or what have you. Maybe even to see when was the last time I cooked it.

I've been half tempted to post my recipes as locked DW entries so I could tag them, or to start a new journal just for recipes. But I'm betting there's some better way out there.

Comments

[katallison]

Seconding earlier rec for Evernote -- it is fantastically convenient. (And free!) An added bonus is that Evernote has the capacity to search for text *within images* -- so if you have a lot of older recipes on paper that you want to integrate into the system, you can scan them, pull them into Evernote, tag them, but also search within them if needed.

[resonant]

Huh. Wonder if it could read my handwriting?

Do you have an opinion about Evernote vs. Springpad?