iPad Recipe Organizer
July 26, 2010 8:55 AM Subscribe
Help me organize recipes on my iPad.
Spend a little time on sites like FoodGawker or TasteSpotting and you end up with a load of fantastic recipes to try. At the moment I am archiving them using Office2HD to store each recipe as a doc file on my dropbox account. Is there a better way? I have looked a Bento and My Recipe Book but have been pretty underwhelmed by reviews and design. Any ideas for apps or other approaches that are less clunky than my current doc approach?
Dreaming in technicolor here: would be great if I could also use said app to generate a meal list for the week....
Spend a little time on sites like FoodGawker or TasteSpotting and you end up with a load of fantastic recipes to try. At the moment I am archiving them using Office2HD to store each recipe as a doc file on my dropbox account. Is there a better way? I have looked a Bento and My Recipe Book but have been pretty underwhelmed by reviews and design. Any ideas for apps or other approaches that are less clunky than my current doc approach?
Dreaming in technicolor here: would be great if I could also use said app to generate a meal list for the week....
It's not available for iPad yet, but something to keep an eye on would be MacGourmet. It's my favorite recipe organizer on the desktop, and there is an iPhone/iPod touch version that I guess you could have a look at in the meantime.
posted by bcwinters at 9:13 AM on July 26, 2010
posted by bcwinters at 9:13 AM on July 26, 2010
I was just reading about kitchen monki, which is apparently aimed at organizing food information in an easy to track, I tunes like format.
posted by bearwife at 9:24 AM on July 26, 2010
posted by bearwife at 9:24 AM on July 26, 2010
I use Evernote because it's so easy, but I want eventually to transfer data to a dedicated recipe app like MacGourmet. If I were starting fresh I'd do the dedicated thing.
posted by Mertonian at 1:24 PM on July 26, 2010
posted by Mertonian at 1:24 PM on July 26, 2010
Evernote, definitely!
It beats almost every "dedicated" recipe book app out there, simply because it's so easy to get recipes into it in the first place. They give you several handy methods of capturing info, such as the Evernote "web clipper" which sits in your browser toolbar and will send the contents of the current webpage to Evernote. You can also configure Google Reader to send the current RSS entry you're reading to Evernote (for those hundreds of subscriptions to cooking blogs that you're subscribed to).
But my favorite feature of Evernote is that it will create a "secret" @evernote.com email address for your account that you can email stuff to, where it then gets added to your Evernote notebook(s). You can even add tags or target specific notebooks in your account by using "#" and "@" to prefix keywords in the email subject-line. This comes in especially handy when I'm reading a food blog directly on my iPhone or iPad (either in Safari or in an RSS reader like "Reeder"), and I don't have access to the Evernote web-clipper. I can just send the current page/post to my secret Evernote email address, add "#recipes" and "@recipes" to the subject line, and the next time I open my Evernote iPad app/Mac app/web interface, the recipe (photos and all) will already be there. No copy/pasting necessary!
Also, the cloud syncing aspect of Evernote means that you don't even have to have your iPad with you to access your recipes. You can login via the Evernote web interface (or via the native Windows or Mac apps), and everything will be right there, and ready for you.
I've wasted so much time and money on dedicated recipe apps in the past that I didn't believe Evernote could possibly do any better than them. But it worked out so awesomely that I eventually paid for an Evernote "Premium" account so I can dump craploads of other info into it.
I love Evernote so much, I would marry it.
posted by melorama at 2:03 AM on July 27, 2010 [1 favorite]
It beats almost every "dedicated" recipe book app out there, simply because it's so easy to get recipes into it in the first place. They give you several handy methods of capturing info, such as the Evernote "web clipper" which sits in your browser toolbar and will send the contents of the current webpage to Evernote. You can also configure Google Reader to send the current RSS entry you're reading to Evernote (for those hundreds of subscriptions to cooking blogs that you're subscribed to).
But my favorite feature of Evernote is that it will create a "secret" @evernote.com email address for your account that you can email stuff to, where it then gets added to your Evernote notebook(s). You can even add tags or target specific notebooks in your account by using "#" and "@" to prefix keywords in the email subject-line. This comes in especially handy when I'm reading a food blog directly on my iPhone or iPad (either in Safari or in an RSS reader like "Reeder"), and I don't have access to the Evernote web-clipper. I can just send the current page/post to my secret Evernote email address, add "#recipes" and "@recipes" to the subject line, and the next time I open my Evernote iPad app/Mac app/web interface, the recipe (photos and all) will already be there. No copy/pasting necessary!
Also, the cloud syncing aspect of Evernote means that you don't even have to have your iPad with you to access your recipes. You can login via the Evernote web interface (or via the native Windows or Mac apps), and everything will be right there, and ready for you.
I've wasted so much time and money on dedicated recipe apps in the past that I didn't believe Evernote could possibly do any better than them. But it worked out so awesomely that I eventually paid for an Evernote "Premium" account so I can dump craploads of other info into it.
I love Evernote so much, I would marry it.
posted by melorama at 2:03 AM on July 27, 2010 [1 favorite]
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posted by dfriedman at 9:10 AM on July 26, 2010