First, I love spreadsheets! The spreadsheet is the most useful software devised to date IMHO. There is so much you can do with them and sort them six ways from Sunday, hide and unhide columns and rows for printing, etc.
Yes, you can use tobaccocellar.com but I like to have control of what I can do with MY spreadsheets.
I have had two spreadsheets since 2004: one for cellared tobaccos and one for my personal ratings of blends, but there is no reason you could not have both in one spreadsheet.
CELLARED TOBACCOS SPREADSHEET COLUMNS:
Brand / blender
Blend Name
Blend Type (e.g., English, Balkan, Burley, Cigar Leaf Based, etc.)
Cellared Date (Which, preferably, will be the date on the label on the bottom of the tin. If this is not available, I use the date I received the tobacco. I also have SEPARATE columns for the cellared date: MONTH, DAY and YEAR as it is easier to sort if three separate columns are used for the date.)
Amount (e.g. 100g, 50g, 8 oz jar. Any bulk tobaccos I order are transferred to 8 ounce Mason ‘Quilt’ Jelly Jars and they each hold 2 ounces of baccy.)
TOBACCO RATINGS SPREADSHEET COLUMNS:
Brand / blender
Blend Name
Blend Type (e.g., English, Balkan, Burley, Cigar Leaf Based, etc.)
Contents (e.g., for Old Joe Krantz, the entry for contents would be ‘Red Virginia, Burley & 25% Perique.’)
Rating (My personal rating on a scale of 1 to 10 – and most often sorted by this column so I easily know what baccys to reorder)
Comments (SHORT, CRISP comments about what I liked / disliked about a blend. Of course this is the widest column.)
I currently have 254 entries in my CELLARED spreadsheet and 333 entries in my RATINGS spreadsheet. Of course you must remember to delete or move an entry from the CELLARED spreadsheet for each blend that is uncellared.
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