Vault shareware program

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y work requires me to track a lot of

information. I found a program on the web to help me. It's

something like the " card file " program that came with

Windows 3.1 but disappeared in Windows 95. The program is

called " Vault " and it is much more powerful. It helps

you organize any information in an outline form. I

use an old version of the program but I see there is

a newer version. You can download it and read about

it

at:<br><br><a href=http://users.aol.com/ericb98398/index.html

target=new>http://users.aol.com/ericb98398/index.html</a><br><br>So why am I

telling you this? Well besides my work

and personal information I decided to save my raw

food recipes in Vault. (You can have just 1 vault

file, or several vault files). I created a Vault file

to hold just my recipes. I know what I have in the

frig to eat but I find it a nusiance to hunt through

all my recipe books to find a recipe to use. I

usually get tired of looking and do anything. Well with

Vault it is really easy. Please go to the Vault site

and read up on how to use it because I'm only going

to be brief here. On the left side (outline) of the

Vault screen I added the name of the recipe book. Under

that I entered the catagory (desserts, salads, etc).

Under each catagory I entered the name of the recipe.

When that recipe name is highlighted on the left I can

then type the ingredients on the right side along with

the page number. Fortunately I type fast. I don't put

in the whole recipe... I just enter the ingredients

like this:<br><br>---------------------<br>p

130<br><br>cucumber<br>mung bean sprouts<br>bok

choy<br>tahini<br>lemon<br>red pepper<br>red

onion<br>braggs<br>-------------------<br><br>I do this for all the recipes. Now

when I want to

know a recipe for mung bean sprouts I can do a search

in my Recipe Vault file for " mung bean sprouts " and

instantly up will pop all the recipe names that contain the

words " mung bean sprouts. I can then easily see that it

is a salad and which cookbook it is in and on which

page. I can review the ingredients quickly on the Vault

screen (on the right side) by clicking on the recipe

name. If I have most of the ingredients I refer to the

book and page. I have then found my meal! And it only

takes a matter of seconds once you learn how to use

Vault. <br><br>I highly recommend it. It's not a recipe

database program... it can be set up to hold any kind of

text information. It's fast and it works. You can also

cut and paste text information from the web and put

it in a Vault file... very nice! So give it a try

because it is shareware (try it before you buy it). I see

the price is $20. but if you like it as much as I do

you will see that it is a bargain. My pointer is for

the Windows 95 version but I see there is also a

Windows 3.1 version available for $15. Remember you don't

have to pay for it until you give it a try and decide

that you want to keep it. <br><br>If you think you

have a better computer program to hold recipes please

share it with us.<br><br>-OrionsDad