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Jun 20, 2016 8:16 PM CST
Name: Rick Corey
Everett WA 98204 (Zone 8a)
Sunset Zone 5. Koppen Csb. Eco 2f
Frugal Gardener Garden Procrastinator I helped beta test the first seed swap Plant and/or Seed Trader Seed Starter Region: Pacific Northwest
Photo Contest Winner: 2014 Avid Green Pages Reviewer Garden Ideas: Master Level Garden Sages I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database.
Typically when I want to export something, it is a seed swap list, but I could see using it on "my plant list" if I spent a lot more time updating "my plant list".

I usually have to do some tweaking after I copy-paste from any web site into a Word doc or Word table.
For other websites, I use search-and-replace to add commas or tabs.
A manually-created file like that can then be imported into a spreadsheet, usually as a CSV.

But when it is inconvenient to import and export from a site, I just don't use that inconvenient website as a way to store information that I want to be able to recover and manipulate. While I'm working full-time, data entry and recovery has to be very easy or I won't spend time. After retirement may be a different story.

Seed swaps here are the only area where my motivation is great enough to motivate me to do the manual conversions, and I think the last time I tried, the "printer-friendly" version of some swap screens made the manual steps easy enough for some purposes. But I decided not to use the ATP database / seed list feature as my "inventory control system".

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