Sipdown! 203/365!
As it happens, I actually still have some of this left, under its other name (I’m drinking “ME to WE India” right now). Which is ok, because it’s actually a fairly pleasant blend. Sweet pineapple with a touch of coconut, and just a hint of spice, are what I get from this blend, making it a little like an extra-fruity pina colada.
In random news, my concern for the potential demise of Steepster resulted in me having my husband write a macro (or something) to pull all my tasting notes/scores into an Excel sheet so that I won’t lose them in the event that the site goes down permanently, which I certainly hope it doesn’t. The export isn’t pretty, but at least it saves everything I need (with bonus fun sortability!) I feel like something like this was used by others at some point… (?) so I might have just missed that boat, but if there’s anyone out there who wants to get their notes in Excel format, I can get him to do that. It was just going to be a ridiculously laborious task for me to go through 420 or so pages of notes and copy them, and apparently he had fun spending a Friday night working on it for me…
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That’s a great idea! I was thinking about going through and writing myself a one sentence summary of each tea I’ve reviewed on Word or something. My main goal is to remind myself if I want to rebuy a tea or not, so maybe an Excel file would be better so there could be basically a yay or nay column.
Yeah, 10 years plus of “My Life In Tea” would be a little sad to lose.
I would 100% be interested in taking up that offer and getting my notes in excel format – though I definitely understand if it’s too laborious of an undertaking XD
@Roswell – it’s not laborious at all, because it’s all automated :D There’s a bit of work, but most of it went into making the tool in the first place. I’ll have him do an export for you tonight. He also wanted to know if there’s anything he’s not exporting that you’d be interested in having – currently it’s tea name, tea company name, tasting note text, score, and date/time.
@AJRimmer/gmathis – happy to do the same for either of you. It’s really not much work. It really would be sad to lose everything I’ve written (I believe I wrote about my husband’s and my first date, even! My steepster presence predates our relationship.), so I decided to be proactive and save things while I can.
Yeah… I copied and pasted about 280 pages of tasting notes into e-mail drafts a couple months ago…. it surprisingly didn’t take too long… haha. I have zero tech knowledge though.
@Kittenna – I can’t really think of anything else that would be missing; that seems like generally all of the major points. Maybe the “flavours” section that appears at the bottom of a tasting note (the section where you’re inputting the flavours manually during the editing process) if that’s not captured in the tasting note text portion?
@tea-sipper I started to do that, but it was so ugly (the way I was doing it, anyhow) and I felt like it would require a ton of reformatting to be useful. But – having the notes in any format is better than not at all!
@Roswell Ah – I don’t use that field so I didn’t even think of it. We took a look, and it appears to be pretty easy to add as an additional column, so he’s doing so :)
Yeah, any format I can save the notes in is better than one day having them disappear. Though I really hope that doesn’t happen, Steepster! (hint hint)
Yeah, this is something I’d be interested in (though I have many fewer notes than you do!). Let’s cross our fingers that Steepster doesn’t go down and we don’t need to worry.
FWIW, I had my husband export notes for AJRimmer, gmathis, and Roswell Strange. I had to clean up a couple missed things, but I think they’re complete as of the export date. I have them in a Google doc right now, but need to change the settings and then can share it if you guys are interested. Might have him re-run the script from time to time to keep things up to date. Leafhopper + tea-sipper, we might toss yours in there as well at some point.
I’m really hoping that we don’t need to worry about it! And that Steepster somehow is rejuvenated at some point.
Not necessary for me, Kittenna. I’m completely useless at those types of things, but I have mine copied over in a way I can manage, even if it’s primitive. haha. I REALLY appreciate the offer though. Thanks
Thank you Kittenna – it’s really appreciated & thank your hubby on my behalf as well!
Thank you! That will be so useful!
Heh, I have written all my notes externally since I joined the site, so I always have a copy on a Notepad file (and that file gets automatically backed up to a web server). I just copy the text off my NoteTab file and paste it into Steepster, I never write directly into Steepster. So I’ve always had a backup since Day 1. Call my a cynic for expecting the worst, but I’ve lost writing before from play-by-forum RPG sites going down and such and now I just do that sort of thing by default. shrugs But kudos to your hubby for offering a backup solution to others!
That’s a great idea! I was thinking about going through and writing myself a one sentence summary of each tea I’ve reviewed on Word or something. My main goal is to remind myself if I want to rebuy a tea or not, so maybe an Excel file would be better so there could be basically a yay or nay column.
Yeah, 10 years plus of “My Life In Tea” would be a little sad to lose.
I would 100% be interested in taking up that offer and getting my notes in excel format – though I definitely understand if it’s too laborious of an undertaking XD
@Roswell – it’s not laborious at all, because it’s all automated :D There’s a bit of work, but most of it went into making the tool in the first place. I’ll have him do an export for you tonight. He also wanted to know if there’s anything he’s not exporting that you’d be interested in having – currently it’s tea name, tea company name, tasting note text, score, and date/time.
@AJRimmer/gmathis – happy to do the same for either of you. It’s really not much work. It really would be sad to lose everything I’ve written (I believe I wrote about my husband’s and my first date, even! My steepster presence predates our relationship.), so I decided to be proactive and save things while I can.
Yeah… I copied and pasted about 280 pages of tasting notes into e-mail drafts a couple months ago…. it surprisingly didn’t take too long… haha. I have zero tech knowledge though.
@Kittenna – I can’t really think of anything else that would be missing; that seems like generally all of the major points. Maybe the “flavours” section that appears at the bottom of a tasting note (the section where you’re inputting the flavours manually during the editing process) if that’s not captured in the tasting note text portion?
@tea-sipper I started to do that, but it was so ugly (the way I was doing it, anyhow) and I felt like it would require a ton of reformatting to be useful. But – having the notes in any format is better than not at all!
@Roswell Ah – I don’t use that field so I didn’t even think of it. We took a look, and it appears to be pretty easy to add as an additional column, so he’s doing so :)
Yeah, any format I can save the notes in is better than one day having them disappear. Though I really hope that doesn’t happen, Steepster! (hint hint)
Yeah, this is something I’d be interested in (though I have many fewer notes than you do!). Let’s cross our fingers that Steepster doesn’t go down and we don’t need to worry.
FWIW, I had my husband export notes for AJRimmer, gmathis, and Roswell Strange. I had to clean up a couple missed things, but I think they’re complete as of the export date. I have them in a Google doc right now, but need to change the settings and then can share it if you guys are interested. Might have him re-run the script from time to time to keep things up to date. Leafhopper + tea-sipper, we might toss yours in there as well at some point.
I’m really hoping that we don’t need to worry about it! And that Steepster somehow is rejuvenated at some point.
Not necessary for me, Kittenna. I’m completely useless at those types of things, but I have mine copied over in a way I can manage, even if it’s primitive. haha. I REALLY appreciate the offer though. Thanks
Thank you Kittenna – it’s really appreciated & thank your hubby on my behalf as well!
Thank you! That will be so useful!
Heh, I have written all my notes externally since I joined the site, so I always have a copy on a Notepad file (and that file gets automatically backed up to a web server). I just copy the text off my NoteTab file and paste it into Steepster, I never write directly into Steepster. So I’ve always had a backup since Day 1. Call my a cynic for expecting the worst, but I’ve lost writing before from play-by-forum RPG sites going down and such and now I just do that sort of thing by default. shrugs But kudos to your hubby for offering a backup solution to others!