PhotoSoft Systems Convecto - Cookbook and Recipe Software Cookbook and Recipe Software
Cookbooks and Recipes

Do you have a number of cookbooks that you use frequently but don't know where to find that particular recipe you need in all of those books?   Use Convecto to organize this collection of books/recipes to ease your meal planning tasks.  Enter the information from your various cookbooks and instantly be able to locate recipes by type, style, author or your own comments.

The information is presented in a easy to use grid format and includes areas for Cooking Notes, Servings, Shopping list, etc.   Details of the program are shown below:

  • Information can be sorted by any column simply by click on the column header.
  • All of the column titles as well as the screen title can be modified at any time.
  • The Meal  and Food Type  columns are lookup fields where the entry is available at the click of a button.
  • The information  can be filtered in a variety of  ways so that only certain records can be seen.
  • Records can be printed and the items  can be selected.  Printing can be customized in a variety of ways.
  • Records can be imported from external data and exported for use in other programs.
  • Records can also be copied from one Convecto copy to another to facilitate sharing.
  • The Grid is also customizable in column widths, row height, fonts and row colors.

 

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Cookbook and Recipe Software

Shown above  is a shot of the main screen showing the screen layout and the toolbar at the top.   The grid size is adjustable from a small version as shown above to full-screen size.    An optional Single-Record view is also available.

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Details of Information Stored:

(any of these names may be changed at any time)

Field Name

Description
Cookbook The name of the Cookbook
Page Number The page number or numbers where the recipe is located in the Cookbook.
Author The author of the Cookbook
Meal The type of meal for this recipe (Dinner, Dinner-Kids, Brunch, etc.)
Food Type The type of food (Pasta, Low-Fat Lunch, Eggs, Cheese, Terrines and Quiche, etc)
Recipe Style French Country, Italian, Mediterranean, American, etc.
Servings Number of servings
Recipe Title The recipe title.
Search Key Store any important words that help identify this recipe.  You can then use a Key word search to locate particular items later (more details on Key Searches are available in the On-Line help system).
Cooking   Notes Detailed notes on your experience in cooking this recipe -- tasting, modifications, etc/
Shopping List Items needed for this recipe.
OLE This item can store a variety of item types from pictures of the dish, audio descriptions, etc..   Almost any type of item or file can be stored here.  The On-Line help has more information on using this feature.

Convecto can also store information on other collections as well as comic books and can have up to 24 themes active at one time.  Click on this link to find out about adding other collections -- Other Collection Information

Check out the Home Inventory theme for information on keeping track of all your household items.


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