Hi all,
I just started using this:
on my Mac to track my honing sessions. It's free for personal use. It is an app which creates text files (technically "markdown" files), but with a nice WYSIWYG preview so you can have images, headings etc that look nice, and you can also create hyperlinks between the text files, basically a little personal wiki.
So I have created three folders, for Razors, Stones and Nagura. Each razor, stone or nagura gets its own file with a number which I can write on the stone. I import the seller's photos and descriptions, any photos of my own, and make any general notes I would like to make. I then have a file called "Honing notes" which is a kind of diary with dated entries describing each honing session. Each entry links to the razor, stones and nagura which were used, and describes what technique I tried and what the shave was like.
The feature that makes this interesting is "backlinks". You can open up a file and it shows you every place which has a link to that file. So if I open up the file for a given razor, I see a history of all the times I honed it and how. If I open up the file for a nagura, I can see all the base stones I tried it out on. If I open up the file for a stone, I can see all the ways I tried honing with it. You can customize it to look how you like but to give you some idea mine looks like this:
I think it's pretty elegant and easy to use, and because it's not a spreadsheet or a database and you can look at nice pictures it doesn't feel like work.
I just started using this:

on my Mac to track my honing sessions. It's free for personal use. It is an app which creates text files (technically "markdown" files), but with a nice WYSIWYG preview so you can have images, headings etc that look nice, and you can also create hyperlinks between the text files, basically a little personal wiki.
So I have created three folders, for Razors, Stones and Nagura. Each razor, stone or nagura gets its own file with a number which I can write on the stone. I import the seller's photos and descriptions, any photos of my own, and make any general notes I would like to make. I then have a file called "Honing notes" which is a kind of diary with dated entries describing each honing session. Each entry links to the razor, stones and nagura which were used, and describes what technique I tried and what the shave was like.
The feature that makes this interesting is "backlinks". You can open up a file and it shows you every place which has a link to that file. So if I open up the file for a given razor, I see a history of all the times I honed it and how. If I open up the file for a nagura, I can see all the base stones I tried it out on. If I open up the file for a stone, I can see all the ways I tried honing with it. You can customize it to look how you like but to give you some idea mine looks like this:
I think it's pretty elegant and easy to use, and because it's not a spreadsheet or a database and you can look at nice pictures it doesn't feel like work.