Manage My Cheeses is the main workspace for viewing and managing the cheeses in your journal. From here you can see your current cheeses, open an individual cheese to review its details and follow its progress throughout maturation.
For each cheese, you can:
• Review and update its recorded details.
• Record maturation observations and notes.
• Keep track of its maturation space and storage position.
• Manage turning and other scheduled care activities.
• Review important dates and maturation progress.
• Record the weight of the cheese immediately after pressing and at the end of the maturation process.
• Archive a cheese when its maturation journey is complete.
Your cheese records are designed to evolve with the cheese. You don’t need to know everything when you first create one – details can be added or updated as its maturation progresses.
Think of Manage My Cheeses as the home of each cheese’s complete maturation record.
Inspect Cheeses provides a quick way to find cheeses you have previously marked as Needs Monitoring or Needs Attention.
Rather than searching through all of your cheeses, this workspace brings those cheeses together in one place so you can easily see which ones should be inspected soon.
From here you can open the individual cheese, review its current details and decide whether its condition or status needs to be updated.
A cheese will continue to appear in Inspect Cheeses while it is marked Needs Monitoring or Needs Attention.
Know what needs checking. Keep an eye on what matters.
Notifications brings together cheeses that currently need your awareness or attention, giving you a quick view of important events without having to check each cheese individually.
The workspace can alert you to:
• Cheeses marked Needs Monitoring.
• Cheeses approaching, reaching or passing their expected ready date.
• Cheeses due to be turned according to their Turning Schedule.
• Other scheduled care activities that are due, where applicable.
Each notification provides direct access to the relevant cheese so you can review its details and decide what, if anything, needs to be done.
Notifications change as your cheeses progress and their details or status are updated, helping keep the information relevant to what is happening in your journal now.
See what needs attention. Know what’s coming up. Stay on top of your cheeses.
Reports provides useful summaries and historical views of the information recorded in My Cheesemaking Journal. It gives you another way to look at your journal data without opening individual cheese records.
Reports currently includes two views:
Cheese Summary – Provides an at-a-glance overview of your journal, including total, current and archived cheeses, your oldest and newest cheeses, and cheeses expected to be ready this week.
Journal Activity – Provides a chronological history of activity recorded against your cheeses, including maturation notes, storage movements and other recorded information.
This can be useful for looking back over what has happened across your cheeses and when it occurred.
Both reports are built from information already recorded in your journal, so they become increasingly useful as your cheesemaking history grows.
See the bigger picture. Look back on the journey. Learn from your journal.
Helpful Information opens the Cheesemaking Knowledge Centre, a collection of practical reference material designed to support you while making, maturing and caring for your cheeses.
The Knowledge Centre includes:
• The 8 Primary Cheese Groups – an introduction to the main families of cheese and familiar examples of each.
• Cheesemaking Tips – practical advice for successful and consistent cheesemaking.
• Glossary of Terms – explanations of common cheesemaking equipment, ingredients, processes and terminology.
• Affinage Guidance – guidance covering maturation, rind care, relative humidity management and monitoring.
• Cheese Culture Reference – information about cheese cultures, their purpose, characteristics, recommended uses and dosage.
• Cheesemaking Supplies, Recipes and Information – access to useful external resources, suppliers and recipes.
The Knowledge Centre is there when you need it – you don’t need to read everything before you start using My Cheesemaking Journal. Dip into it whenever you need some guidance or want to learn more about a particular aspect of cheesemaking.
Make with confidence. Understand the process. Keep learning as you go.
Settings is where you personalise My Cheesemaking Journal and manage preferences and reusable information used throughout your cheese records.
From Settings you can:
• Personalisation – add or change your first name for personalised greetings and messages.
• iPhone Notifications – choose whether My Cheesemaking Journal reminds you when a cheese is approaching its Expected Ready Date.
• Manage Custom Cheese Types – review, rename or delete Cheese Types you have created.
• Manage Maturation Spaces – add, rename or delete unused Maturation Spaces and Storage Positions. Entries currently assigned to saved cheeses are protected from deletion.
• Manage Turn Schedules – create additional Turning Schedules for use with your cheeses. Existing schedules are retained to protect your journal history.
• Temperature – choose whether temperatures are displayed and entered in Celsius or Fahrenheit.
• Weight – choose whether weights are displayed and entered in grams or ounces.
Your Temperature and Weight preferences affect how values are displayed and entered throughout My Cheesemaking Journal. Changing these preferences does not alter your saved cheese records, maturation history, archived records or notes.
Set it up your way. Change it when you need to. Your journal takes care of the rest.