Recipe Storage Solution, Tentatively
5 Jan 2023 10:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneThe recipes are in a shared Drive directory, which works well enough. The main difference is that the screen of a tablet or phone will still go to sleep if you've got it propped up and displaying a webpage or the Docs app (which is what they open in). Evernote, like an ereader app, had an always-awake override function. But this can be compensated easily enough by downloading one of the little android apps that let you specify which apps the screen should remain awake for, so that's what I did.
When we first started using Evernote for recipes, Google Drive was a processor-heavy app that I wouldn't have wanted to open on the tablet. But actually today's mobile devices and today's Google Drive are reasonably okay to use this way. I know this to my misfortune, because when our work kitchen remodel took out the internet at work I spent a few days using Google Docs on my work phone - which is definitively midrange - before my boss reminded me that you can use a phone to create a mobile hotspot (so after that I was using mobile data speeds, but at least I had the keyboard and mouse).
Actually, I never mentioned that they got the internet back up at the very end of the last day before my Christmas vacation started. I tested it briefly and everything. They were going to come back briefly on the 24th to fiddle with wiring, since for some reason half the apartments in the building originally had had theirs routed through our kitchen. But fingers crossed it was only positive fiddling and I will arrive at work on Monday to find the key on my desk and the modem working as intended.
Would I prefer to use Google stuff for everything? Not exactly! But the open-source DIY alternatives to things like Google Calendar, Google Photos backups and Google Drive still require way more leetness than I possess (if I wanted to be able to use them all from phone and desktop and web browser, that is).
When we first started using Evernote for recipes, Google Drive was a processor-heavy app that I wouldn't have wanted to open on the tablet. But actually today's mobile devices and today's Google Drive are reasonably okay to use this way. I know this to my misfortune, because when our work kitchen remodel took out the internet at work I spent a few days using Google Docs on my work phone - which is definitively midrange - before my boss reminded me that you can use a phone to create a mobile hotspot (so after that I was using mobile data speeds, but at least I had the keyboard and mouse).
Actually, I never mentioned that they got the internet back up at the very end of the last day before my Christmas vacation started. I tested it briefly and everything. They were going to come back briefly on the 24th to fiddle with wiring, since for some reason half the apartments in the building originally had had theirs routed through our kitchen. But fingers crossed it was only positive fiddling and I will arrive at work on Monday to find the key on my desk and the modem working as intended.
Would I prefer to use Google stuff for everything? Not exactly! But the open-source DIY alternatives to things like Google Calendar, Google Photos backups and Google Drive still require way more leetness than I possess (if I wanted to be able to use them all from phone and desktop and web browser, that is).
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