Curious who else is keeping one? How is yours is structured and have you had any interesting observations as a result. (Hey I did want to Thread-Jack the Don Carlos Beli topic from a few days agao!)

I have been keeping a cigar diary for the last three or four years. Each cigar gets its own page...I tape in the band (if it has one and I don't lose it on the golf course or at the local lounge), note the vitola, smoking environment, time anddate. Lately, I have also made a note about the mood I was in or what I was thinking about or doing while smoking.

I have definitely seen some interesting moves away from a brand or style of cigar and then maybe a year later gravitate back.

I thought about creating a cigar diary, but then I decided to have a life instead. Glad it worked for you though.

I kept one in my noob days. I logged like 280 different entries, everyone a differnet vitola, wrapper or size. It was very informative in my early years, forced me to think critically about cigars and helped me realize the different flavors I was tasting were a result of country of origin or wrapper.

I started one years ago, and go through periods of using it or not. I have no great scheme of things and don`t save bands, just quick notes. I don`t update common stuff much anymore, but do occasionally update entries. It is a useful tool to have and fun to look through from time to time. As far as the person that trivialised keeping diaries- most people that are from a scientific background keep journals. I have journals of every fish i have collected as well as all the documentation of all the reptile species I have bred or collected. Its called data- and it often points to a bigger picture than the sum of its parts combined.

I kept one for a while. I used a very similar format to yours. I kept it in a leatherbound gold leaf journal. In June I started a blog and intended to use the blog as well as the pen&paper, but it didn't take long for me to stop using the pen&paper journal. I still need to work on learning to better recognize and describe what it is I'm tasting so that it can be more useful for me as a reference to remember what a cigar was like the last time I smoked it. Right now all I really get down is whether or not I enjoyed it and if I had any problems with it during the smoke.

I keep one but im lazy and i dont always rate my cigars and get around to puting them in my book. I find it quite informative and its quite fun to see how your cigars are ageing. I have a terrible memory so its nice to look back and see what i thought of certain cigars

Okay...so maybe my OCD mixs badly with my ADD

I capture a lot more of the new things (new to me) and only occasionly enter when I've bought a box.

BinDer had a good idea in there using the data to decide when aging has become noticeable and maybe things are about to run out of gas. My uncle whose is a serious wine nut suggested it to me.

Surely some cigars simply read "rocket, don't buy again" (e.g., Don Tomas Camaroon short story knock offs).

I still keep a cigar diary as well as an excel database of every brand and vitola I have ever smoked. It's sad. I also attach a sticky to every one of my cigars, which are in cello, that includes the date it was put into my humidor.

E-mail me and I'll send you my spreadsheet.

Email sent!

I have a kind of mental record for most of the smokes in my humidors...bought the box of Hemingways when my daughter was born...Gispert Belis just before the golf triup mornings..Monte 2s on business trip to London. But, I have never dated them. I kind of have a recurring day dream about having a large scale humidor (walk-in?) at home and having to catalog the contents by date. Started about the time somebody posted pictured of twin Tower of Power humidos loaded to the gills with boxes of nothing but world class smokes.

no prob man, i'll get it to ya tonight.

I found a shareware cigar diary called PBcigar for my Sony PDA. It has room for basic info, and notes. I am recommending that they add fields to keep track of shops and prices a little easier.

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Originally posted by JSprizzle:
I still keep a cigar diary as well as an excel database of every brand and vitola I have ever smoked. It's sad. I also attach a sticky to every one of my cigars, which are in cello, that includes the date it was put into my humidor.

E-mail me and I'll send you my spreadsheet.

I write on the excess end of the cello instead of a sticky, but that's a better idea!

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E-mail me and I'll send you my spreadsheet.

Email sent Hop to hear from you soon!

bgoodz, on these forums, also has a great Excel spreadsheet set up. He emailed me a copy to compare against my own. His is very well thought out and deep. He was emailing it to all takers a week or two ago, look him up.