Convecto - 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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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.