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That is how you know what it is. The recipe. The firing schedule. The pictures. The notes. Its project, information about what came before it and what developed from it. These mugs and that test bar are the same clay. I am doing a preliminary tests on a new material called "Battle Clay". This code number identifies all my records regarding this test mix in my insight-live.com account. In future, I can identify the specimens from the records and the records from the code-numbered specimens.

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Consider how valuable your glaze and body development records are. Are they in a three-ring binder? Or do you have pictures and notes scattered across apps on your phone? If you're testing, adjusting, or developing glazes, bodies, underglazes or engobes, traditional notebooks and binders are holding you back. They don't have keywords, and they are only grouped, not categorized. With Insight-live, you can link recipes to each other and to important details like photos, materials, firing schedules and URLs. Organize test recipes into projects, classify them with typecodes (tokens), calculate chemistry, and create mix tickets. Research materials and perform keyword searches. Put anything side-by-side to study and determine the next move. Physical notebooks can’t do this—but your account at Insight-live.com can!

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This two-inch pile of lab test body and glaze mix tickets is about half of what I have tested in the past year. I have added thousands of pictures too (using my smartphone). I just realized why I am doing a lot more testing. It is so much easier to organize the record keeping in my Insight-live.com account. I can manage so many separate testing projects. I have so much more of a sense that I am progressing. And it feels great to build such an organized set of records that I can refer back to.
| URLs |
https://insight-live.com/insight/help/Recipe+Manager-292.html
Insight-Live Help for the Recipe Manager |
| Glossary |
Code Numbering
In a ceramics lab, studio or classroom specimens of hundreds of glazes and bodies may be present. A code numbering system that links these to written or computer records is essential. |
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