===== Chronological record keeping =====

Last year I wrote down planting dates and other significant events in a book something like a journal. I don't find this very helpful, first from the viewpoint of keeping track of the book, second in being able to quickly find a specific item.

==== Photo records ====

In 2013 I snapped a lot of photos of the results of our activities and the date stamp on these has provided basic chronological info. And by adding keywords and descriptions I can quickly search for specific topics.

==== Phone app ====

In mid-Summer 2014 I explored using a smart phone with the Evernote application to record photos and comments. That approach didn't work well as-is because of peculiarities on Evernote. However, I did manage to use it in this way:
  * I capture the scene with my phone's camera.
  * At home on my desktop computer:
    * I name each event, and add keywords and descriptions
    * I export photos from my collection specifically for Evernote.
    * I type in the comments for the day into Evernote.
    * I attach the photos to the day's comments.

I can imagine a revised Evernote app that effectively added pictures on-site as I recorded what I had done, but that's not the case yet. It appears in January 2019 that Evernote can now immediately add a photo to a note, but I quit using that software last fall because of uncertainty of the company's future. Now I use Notes on an iMac and drag photos into the note after processing in Photos. This works as well as the way I used Evernote before.