iamimdoc

Bridge works great for me for photos.

I like to cook and often scan or download recipes as PDFs. I have created a library of recipes in Bridge and can easily attach a tag such as Italian, Comfort food, sauce etc. Pretty easy to flip through and view the recipe and print if needed.

Makes it very easy to find stuff

Presumably there are lots of other similar activities where this would be useful.

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

Keep recipes in Bridge and view them in the kitchen on what device?

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

My parents played too much Bridge in the '60s and '70s. [life-long sigh of disgust, complete with eye roll] That was my cue to go hide out in the basement darkroom...

I used Adobe Bridge before Lightroom. That sort of killed my interest in (Adobe) Bridge, because I no longer needed that sort of asset manager.

I've always thought that the iPad was the ideal recipe target, because it can be mounted on a flat, vertical surface near the food prep area. But there needs to be a universal standard recipe database app that you can buy content for, as well as load your own.

Recipes are notorious for being hard to follow, because they leave out too much information, reveal it too late in the process, don't start with a pantry inventory and trip to the store... I could go on and on. If I had the patience, I'd develop something. I cook most of our meals. We must have 100 cookbooks, and there are only a few of them I can stand to use because they are close to reasonably well organized.

iamimdoc

Could send to an iPad or laptop in the kitchen. Always concerned re grease, flour etc getting on these devices

I just print it out for now

Not sure if Alexa with a screen could be used but would be nice if it could

terryMc Loc: Arizona's White Mountains

Adobe Bridge is another reason why I never needed Lightroom. I already had all of its photo developing capability in Camera Raw, and Bridge did a fine job of organizing my files and managing assets.

Different strokes...

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Lightroom has continued to evolve very rapidly. With input from tens of thousands of professionals who have beta tested it, it has a toolset that keeps most of us out of Photoshop about 85% or more of the time. Add to that all the input from consumers of both the original Lightroom and Lightroom Mobile and the evolution of Lightroom into Lightroom Classic and Lightroom Mobile into the NEW Lightroom (Yeah, Adobe has really stupid naming schemes), and you get a full-featured parametric editor on top of a digital asset manager and a fully mature printing tool suite. Plus, for ten bucks a month, you get Lightroom and Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, Bridge, and a few other goodies like Premiere Rush.

terryMc Loc: Arizona's White Mountains

Why does everyone ignore the fact that Lightroom's fabulous editing tool set that keeps everyone out of Photoshop is Adobe Camera Raw?

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

Then it sounds like you might as well maintain a card file. Back to square one.

bdk Loc: Sanibel Fl.

ive only got about 5 recipes for hotdogs, so Bridge wouldnt be much help to me.
tonight hotdogs sliced real thin, boiled, then added to rice a roni , quick easy and I actually like it.
Oh wait, wife says we are not eating that $hi++ ... sorry

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Because the interface is so much better in Lightroom Classic than it is in Ps or Br or Lightroom. 85 to 90 percent of the time, I don't need or want the tools in Photoshop. When I do, they're a keystroke away. ⌘+E on Mac.

As a former digital lab product manager, I did lots of work in Kodak DP-2, at the time (early to mid-2000s) was the software we used for film scanning, color correction, print product design and layout, and image rendering to Noritsu mini-labs. Lightroom Classic does the vast majority of tasks that software could do, on a smaller scale. The workflow is designed primarily by and for professional photographers in the portrait/social, event, photojournalism, and commercial fields. It is the hub of the digital studio workflow. Everything goes out from Lightroom Classic and comes back to it before final export, or locally attached printing, or rendering to a remote book printer, or rendering to a website.

chrissybabe Loc: New Zealand

I use Word for the content and file under food type. I hand copy (usually) the entire recipe changing all the references from Imperial to metric, converting any recipe that says to use 3 of something into the standard weight for that item, and swap in any substitute for a US brand product to make the recipe usable anywhere else in the world. And read the recipe for mistakes (frequently found). This leaves me with something that can be used. Plus insert any photos that might be relevant as to what the end result might/should look like.
If I make something I print out that page. Then I can make notes on that page and transfer this back into the file copy with dates if this might be relevant plus our views on how successful it was. Very easy to make a copy for anybody else who might want it. And allows stupid mistakes to be caught where the original author did something silly that would have made the recipe into soup instead of knife and fork stuff (surprisingly this happens more often than you might think - I would hate to have to rely on some of these authors as witnesses in a court case). It works so well that even my wife is starting to follow the idea.

iamimdoc

Not really as I have several hundred and shifting/searching through them with a pc is much faster

The labels make it easier to group and find similar items: chicken, sauces etc

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Many people have a TV in the kitchen. My wife has asked for one a couple times. Today's TVs are online, so you could display your recipe on the TV.

I had a touchscreen tablet mounted on the wall in the washstand on the farm. It was used to manage orders for vegetables. When a field worker brought in a load of vegetables, (s)he would sign into the tablet and touch the button for the vegetable. Signing out after washing and packing would create a digital record of who washed the vegetable, date and time, and would generate a product ID with a bar code to label the package.

The tablet was moderately rugged since the washstand can be a wet environment, and the field worker's fingers were usually wet and/or muddy.

A tablet might be a good thing to use in the kitchen, where the cook's fingers are sometimes covered with debris from the cooking process.

CaltechNerd Loc: Whittier, CA, USA

You're spot on about the failure of most recipes. Part of Julia Child's success was that before she put a recipe in a book, she tried it ten ways to Sunday, making sure she included ALL the steps, in the right order, and explained what she meant.

BrianFlaherty Loc: Wilseyville, CA

I just gotta put this into the mix: I have a library of approximately 14,000-15,000 real books (90% are hard cover). I add-on rooms to my house to accommodate the books; and, I build real book cases on which to "store" the books. . .And, I have zero "gimmicks" to "keep track" of them. . My friends refer to me as a "dinosaur" re: technology. . .But, when asked if I have such and such a book on a topic, I suggest they "check in the south bedroom; on the east wall; about 3rd shelf down from the ceiling; book with a blue cover; around page 250. . .I believe you'll find what you're looking for." When asked "How do you know that?" "Well, I put that book on that shelf!" Do you know how much fun, it has been collecting (and, reading) all those books over my 80+ years? My folks gave me my first book when I was six WEEKS old. . .And, I still have THAT book: a collection of diary entries of a young man who died in the Spanish Civil War in 1937 (His family transcribed the diary; and, had it published as a "tribute" to his memory). In my library, I have over 3,000 cook books. . .Which I refer to virtually daily, as I decide what to make for breakfast or dinner . . .And, to use these books, I have installed a special plate-glass cutting board INTO my kitchen counter-top, under which I can place an open book (opened to the pertinent recipe. . .readable THROUGH the glass). The book and pages are never "messy" from the food prep. . .And, pages are "marked" with colored post-its for oft-used recipes. I tried using a card catalogue; but, it was too time-consuming to keep it up-to-date. I also tried an "optic gun reader" of the ISBN numbers; and, a software program to categorize the books (similar to what libraries us); but, that didn't work well either. . .Nothing works better than this "Old Guy's Brain". . .Doesn't need batteries or require plugging into the wall. . . Isn't nearly as much fun! What will happen when I die? I don't give a damn! Of course, the library requiring MY personal "touch" should provide a good reason for me to live FOREVER! Or, at least until "I am done!" [My grandfather, who passed away at 105, and, was "sharp of mind and body" . . . told me one afternoon: "When you come tomorrow for our daily chat, bring the Funeral Guy with you." "Why, Grampa," I asked. "Because I think I am done. . .And, I just won't bother to wake up tomorrow morning." And, that's what I did. . .And, that's what HE did. . .that next morning. Born in 1890, in a small village on the border of Poland and Russia, he had walked out of the Temple when he was 12; and, apprenticed himself to a baker. In 1910, after walking over a thousand miles to a seaport, he boarded a ship; and, emigrated to the United States (I found his signature in the archives of Ellis Island). Within a few months, he had continued his journey to the Pacific Northwest; and, become a union organizer for the Wobblies (IWW) of eastern European bakers and confectionary workers (Self-taught, he had become fluent in six languages: Hebrew; Yiddish; Russian; Polish; German; and, English). I "knew" him intimately for over 50 years; and, when he spoke, I listened! He was a major contributor to MY education and my library! And, he did NOT need a computer; nor any "digital aids!" He taught me so much, the "OLD fashioned way:" Reading and Conversation! Both of which are becoming Lost Arts in the Digitalization of the 21st Century! I do tend to ramble. But, I think you got my drift!. . <smile>