Putting a few thousand older tasting notes on CellarTracker

[Eric_LeVine]

@Chuck Miller

@Eric LeVine

As for the buckeye76 comments, I want to point out that any user can choose to put any other user on their ignore list. You can also change the default sort of the tasting notes that you see. The default is order of entry, but you can change that to the date of the tasting note.

I see where you can do that if I’m looking at the entire list of a user’s notes, but maybe I’m missing it when looking at the TNs for a particular wine (i.e. the notes are from different people).

This is not exposed in our classic site, but our desktop site (now 7 years old) has a sort dropdown for the tasting notes on the wine detail page.

EDIT: Although I am only seeing NEWEST/OLDEST as sort options. In fact, looking at it, I see that it is already sorted by tasting note and not date posted.

In the list views, the default sort is order posted, and there you can click to sort by tasting date.

[Chuck_Miller]

I’m not on classic, and the ‘newest/oldest’ is what made me assume it was by posting date and not tasting date.

[Brian_Curtis]

@Tom Reddick

Now that I have them, I am tempted to get them formatted for a mass upload to CellarTracker, and also hire someone to scan and format over 10 years of selected tasting notes going back to 1995 in order to also put them on CellarTracker. Those notes- of which there are about two thousand- are all typed up, one page for each, and in massive binders that are quite a hassle from both a storage and ease-of-reference standpoint.

You can buy sheet feed scanners fairly cheaply these days. They would make short work of scanning and OCRing your typed notes. I’ve got a Fujitsu ScanSnap, but there are lots of other options available. We have gone completely paperless so we use the sheet feed scanner almost daily.

[Tom_Reddick]

Thank you Brian- I will look into that. For now I am just going to do the 1,000 or so that I downloaded from eBob, but there are far more for down the road- and my current scanner won’t do the trick.

Also- Drew, wanted to thank you for your kind offer. Unfortunately (for me now anyway), a lot of my TNs include current commentary on other critical reviews etc- and I need to edit that out in the interests of presenting a basic neutral TN. A few not-so-innocent dinner companions may also not want their antics memorialized. So as part of this process I am going to have to do a good bit of editing.