Ive been using a spread sheet to record phrases and words ive learned, along with audio i have found for them and sample sentences for the context in which they are used. However as it has grown to over 8,000 entrys its become very messy.

Does anyone else record their data in a similar way, any suggestions as to how to make it more manageable and has anyone used a database instead of a spreadsheet?

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Bíonn rudaí maithe mall

I usually divided stuff into:

(a) Basic Grammar (genitive of this word, dative of that, past of this verb, e.t.c.)
(b) Advanced Grammar (every time a didn't genuinely understand what a sentence meant and the eventual explanation)
(c) Notes on words and usage (An bhéibí is the baby in Corca Dhuibhne, different meanings of words with a similar meaning. Fón cliste from Bríd.)
(d) Cool phrases (A nice way of saying something that I wouldn't naturally think of, due to being an English speaker)

I dropped (a) at some point, eventually that stuff will be just automatically in your brain, so you'll stop recording it.
As you go on (c) and (d) become the most important.

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The dialect I use is Cork Irish.
Ar sgáth a chéile a mhairid na daoine, lag agus láidir, uasal is íseal

Do you keep them all on the one document/spreadsheet or separate ones?

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Bíonn rudaí maithe mall

Seperate ones typically. I also divide my notes between Cork and Kerry, just so I don't get confused.

I remember a native speaker from near Ceann Trá had thousands of pages of notes, I would love for them to see the light of day in book form at some point.

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The dialect I use is Cork Irish.
Ar sgáth a chéile a mhairid na daoine, lag agus láidir, uasal is íseal

Who takes the time to write down such things as the words and phrases around about. Those thousands of pages are priceless!! Perhaps you might have a word and they could see that light of day... Are they handwritten or typed?

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Bí cinnte de go nglacfaidh triúr le gach aistriúchán a thabharfar.
Be sure to get three in agreement with a translation given.

You could make your own dictionary, using SIL Toolbox or Lexique Pro, or make a database like this one we made for native Breton: http://banque.sonore.breton.free.fr/

You can make a database using "TshwaneLex database" for instance.
Depends on what you want to get at the end, a paper dictionary, a searchable database on your computer, on the web...

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Is fearr Gaeilg na Gaeltaċta ná Gaeilg ar biṫ eile
Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

I believe they were typed, I never saw them myself, somebody else was telling me. I'll get back to you with more info in a day or two, I just have to speak to my contacts in the Corca Dhuibhne secret service.

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The dialect I use is Cork Irish.
Ar sgáth a chéile a mhairid na daoine, lag agus láidir, uasal is íseal

Try contacting the local Garda station; I'm sure they've been recorded there. Everything else seems to have been!

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LOL.