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What is your preferred way to compile and make easily accessible recipes from a wide variety of sources? I have several cookbooks with a small number of recipes I like, recipe cards of widely varying sizes, a few sheets of printer paper, and online bookmarks.

I want to do better at meal planning, but can never remember all of what I have that I like.

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[punzel.livejournal.com]

When I made a decision to keep it digital, things flowed from there.

I cut and paste data into text files and organize by folders, sometimes saving recipes in more than one place (e.g. duplicated into pot luck). If it's a paper recipe (which can be from library books), I take a digital photo and save the image.

I don't worry much about whether my folders make sense, I just over-title things so that I can search filenames for keywords, and failing that, I can search the file contents for the ingredients I remember.

If I feel like a recipe I like is too complicated, it's common for me to do a web search on the recipe title and a few of its essential ingredients, then I can improvise something that's easier or more to my palate by tweaking from the pool of recipes found.