Pres Posted August 8, 2022 Report Share Posted August 8, 2022 Hi folks, nothing new in the pool! So I will pose another question for this weeks QotW. Last week we asked about digital scales and find that probably 90% of you have gone digital at least with scales. Hmmm that makes me wonder. I used to keep all of my notes on glaze formulas and recipes in a large sketch book. I even had drawings in it of pots and how I glazed them in the early days. Then in the 1980's I started working on apple II computers, and Commodore Amigas. Yeah, started to push my glaze chemistry onto spread sheets. Early ones were really simple, but a good way of storing things, and they could be printed out whenever you wanted to mix of glazes or other materials. These days I still do it, and often will post a picture of a pot with the glaze on it in the spread sheet. I have the spread sheet set up for 500 and 750 grams of glaze which makes it easy for small and larger buckets. Recently, I got rid of the paper punched sheets and now slip them into a plastic protective sleeve. I number my containers of glaze, and my test tiles, with corresponding numbers marked on the plastic sleeve. I remember the names, but the numbers are easy to keep on the containers, and if I decide to move a glaze out and another in, I just keep the same number. When mixing glazes I mark each completed component on the sleeve over the recipe. Makes things easy and keeps me on track. QotW: Do you keep your glazes in a notebook, or some other paper depository, or have you gone digital with your glaze and materials recipes? best, Pres Rae Reich and Hulk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hulk Posted August 8, 2022 Report Share Posted August 8, 2022 Both. Am using GlazeMaster for glazes I want to compare/analyze/test/use, then I print out the recipe, note the scale values, and keep the printouts in a folder that I keep in the studio, along with a notebook for firing notes, another notebook for glaze notes. I prefer keeping my notes in handwritten notebooks, nice change from years in ticketing systems, code, online documentation, email, etc., literally tens of thousands of hours at the keyboard an' screens. I haven't had any need to search, copy&paste or otherwise manipulate my notes, so, meh. The software is particularly helpful for adjustments and substitutions, on account o' it has material analysis and maths built in, I love it for that. Pres and Rae Reich 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piedmont Pottery Posted August 19, 2022 Report Share Posted August 19, 2022 I am using Insight Live for developing and tweaking glazes and maintaining a database of all of my recipes. I can access it from home or from my studio. I haven't kept a paper notebook in years. Hulk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denice Posted August 19, 2022 Report Share Posted August 19, 2022 I had mine in a old program on my computer, when I bought a new computer the tech said we might loose some info if the program wasn't compatible with Windows 10. I printed out all of my formula's and put them in a notebook. I lost the formula's in the transfer, I think I am going to stick to the notebook for now, I think we need a new computer. Denice Hulk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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