Hi Odin!  A bit more feedback on recipe plugin:

(1) Appreciation: I think this is a very valuable kind of thing to offer, 
especially if we're inviting folks to adopt TiddlyWiki as a friendly 
personal notes app.

(2) Search glitch: Installing the plugin (dragging it to my wiki) does not 
seem to carry over any visible cues about the need for, or mechanism for, a 
custom search (to deal with everything being tucked into fields). So, users 
won't easily understand why they can't find recipes with "molasses" (for 
example) based on using the standard search interface. UPDATE: I've now 
found your "dashboard" shadow tiddler *was* installed with the plugin, but 
I needed to find out the name (by hitting edit at your demo site) and do an 
advanced search (or troll through the plugin contents) to find it; it 
doesn't seem to "live" in any convenient place yet, and isn't linked up 
within the read-me or config tabs for the plugin.

(3) text field: It seems a good practice to use the text (body) field for 
something text-like, especially if it's likely to look like paragraphs. So, 
I'm not sure why the default text field of the tiddler wouldn't be ideal 
for holding the instructions. Unlike with the ingredient list, there 
doesn't seem to be much special formatting for instructions (apart from 
having multiple paragraphs -- which of course is what the text field is 
designed to handle anyway). One benefit would be less of a search gap, 
since at least the default search would "see" into the instructions if 
they're in the basic text field. Also, if the plugin gets disabled, or a 
tiddler gets dragged to a new wiki, a better glimpse of the contents would 
still be recognizable and display decently.

(4) recipe tag change: If someone changes the "default tag for new recipes" 
they currently risk losing the recipe template display (and search 
functions, etc.) for any existing recipe tiddlers. So, when I opt for 
"recipe" instead of "Recipe" (as I avoid capitalized tags), is it possible 
to build in an option, right there, to change the tag on any existing 
tiddlers with the old tag, so that changing the tag doesn't leave those 
tiddlers behind? (I have access to ways to rename tags, but again I'm 
thinking of beginners.)

All of the above issues are ones that dedicated TW5 users can work around; 
my feedback here is just on the level of suggestions for ensuring that the 
plugin is user-friendly for folks who haven't already become TiddlyWiki 
converts with a decent sense of how to troubleshoot. Especially if it's 
refined to be more beginner-friendly, then this plugin, as I appreciate 
above, will be an attractive "off-the-shelf" solution for the TW showroom.

Thanks again!

-Springer
On Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 12:48:19 PM UTC-5 Odin wrote:

> Thanks for the reply! I will fix the typo in the readme. But it the typo 
> isn't in the code, see screenshot. Note that if you change the default tag 
> settings in the config tab, it only applies to newly made recipes. So the 
> button won't shop at recipes with the old tag.
> [image: screenshot.jpg]
>
> Op dinsdag 12 januari 2021 om 18:37:11 UTC+1 schreef springer:
>
>> Thanks for developing this recipe plugin! 
>>
>> Small glitch: the default tag for new recipes is Recipe (with a capital 
>> R) and yet the read-me says that we'll see the toolbar for anything tagged 
>> with recipe (no caps). 
>>
>> So it seemed to be not working, until I tracked down that discrepancy.
>>
>> -Springer
>>
>> On Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 11:58:40 AM UTC-5 Odin wrote:
>>
>>> In this thread, Jonathan Lundquist 
>>> <https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/hxEcc06UBhY/m/cVfdd-47CAAJ>proposed
>>>  
>>> that the edit tiddler button redirects to the recipe editor tiddler instead 
>>> of editing the tiddler. I went with another approach. I added a toolbar 
>>> button that only shows up at tiddlers tagged with 'Recipe' letting your 
>>> opening your recipe directly in the recipe editor(by default all recipes 
>>> are tagged 'Recipe', but this can be changed in the config).
>>>
>>> I also added a new category to filter the recipes with. You can now set 
>>> add a course to each recipe (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack and other). 
>>> For now, the options are hard-coded, but in the future, I want to figure 
>>> out a way to make this configurable so that users can add and remove 
>>> options without needing to edit the plugin tiddler.
>>>
>>> You can find the plugin at: https://odinjorna.github.io/recipe-plugin/
>>
>>

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