Hi Marci, SI, Dani, and Others, I'm starting a new thread, because this reply is to a question that was posed in the middle of the multiply thread-jacked post on the (then) free Cooking Pro app, and I think that Marci's question was about adding recipes to the Paprika Recipe Manager app.
I'll quote the section of the relevant section of the previous thread: On Feb 25, 1:42 pm, Marcy Weinberg > wrote: What is the process to add your own recipes? > On Feb 25, 2013, at 1:37 PM, "Si" wrote: > > > I have the Paprika app and it's brilliant. It lets you search sites for > > favorites, add favorites, add your own recipes, manage meals, manage a > > grocery list, etc. > > > Si There are a few different ways you can add your own recipes to Paprika's database. I believe that Sieghard said he just dictated them in, and this is an option if you have a newer model iPhone (e.g., the iPhone 4S or iPhone 5), iPod Touch, or iPad. If you used a keyboard to enter the data, you can simply copy and paste in the recipe information. The virtual keyboard for Paprika is also equipped with a row of extra keys above the top of the keyboard, with buttons for quantitiles like one quarter, one third, one half, etc. and units like "tsp", "tbsp", or "cups", and you can change the setting between "Imperial" and "metric" so you can enter grams instead of pounds, etc. I suspect you want to know whether you can batch add your own files of text recipes to the app. You can do this using the "Import" option on the settings menu for the app. I got the Mac desktop version of the Paprika app when if went on sale for half price at Thanksgiving, so I used the "import" feature in the file menu of the desktop version, and then synced the Mac and iOS data through the cloud account you get when you purchase any of the Paprika apps to get the recipes on my iPhone app. Paprika can import recipe formats that are used by several recipe web sites and applications. For plain text imports, follow the directions in the Paprika User Guide for importing YAML files. Just add lines with the keywords you want, followed by a colon, space, and then the argument. This would typically be "name", "servings", "categories","ingredients:, and "directions". The category argument is surrounded by square brackets, like "[Soups]". Most of this is fairly obvious -- after the "name" keyword, following the colon and space, you just type the name of the recipe, and after the "servings" keyword, following the colon and space, you type in the number of servings. For multi-line text block entries, such as a list of ingredients, cooking directions, or special notes, type a vertical line after the colon and space following the keyword. It's easier to show you an example than it is to write a description. Here's a link to the a Mail Archive page for one of my Mac-Access list posts discussing Paprika: • Re: Paprika (was Mac App Store sales of ABBYY FineReader Express, 1Password, and Paprika Recipe Manager) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg14524.html That post includes a sample recipe from an old OCR to text that was imported to Paprika. You can stick several such text recipes together in a file, which I named "recipes.yml" with the ".yml" extension, and import them into Paprika. If you import multiple recipes at once, type a hyphen and a space to precede the line with keyword name for the recipe. On an iPhone, you would add such a file to the app using iTunes file sharing when your iPhone device is connected to your computer. There's a place where you can select the app for file sharing and add the file on the applications tab in iTunes. Then, wheh you start the app on your device, go to the settings within the app and select "import". Once the recipes are in your app, you can select them for adding to your grocery list, use them for meal-planning, scale them up (or down) in size before shopping and/or cooking, cloud sync the information (recipes, shopping lists, meal plans, etc.) to any other devices that share your AppleID and the app (like your spouse's iPhone), and use your recipes with all the other functions that Paprika supports (searching by name or ingredients, assigning to favorites, etc.) You can probably contact the developer with additional questions. I first mentioned this app on the viphone list nearly a year ago when a user wanted a recipe app for organizing his own recipes. I believe that Keith imported all of his recipes to the iPhone after getting this app, with a little assistance from the developer. I really like this application because the cloud syncing support is accurate and good, there are frequent updates, and the developer did a fantastic and responsive job with VoiceOver support. At $4.99 it is one of the more expensive apps, and there are separate versions of the app for the iPhone and iPad (and Mac). However, you'll see that the app is highly rated. There's a difference between having an app that you can make work with VoiceOver and the experience of an app that is really designed for good VoiceOver performance. (Just as an example, while the recently discussed, Cooking App Pro, did work with VoiceOver, many of the recipes had instruction step that used a whole series of images, so navigating through the directions had VoiceOver constantly reading out image information -- sort of like the equivalent of the dictionary apps where nearly every other word in a definition is announced as "link".) Another few points to note: Paprika is supported in several languages: English, Bokmål, Norwegian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. There is also a large list of international recipe sites that can be used to search for and import new recipes. It is worth reading the user guides for the various (iPhone, iPad, Mac) version of the app, that can be found at the developer's site: • Paprika User Guide for iPhone and iPod Touch: http://www.paprikaapp.com/help/iphone/ • Paprika User Guide for iPad: http://www.paprikaapp.com/help/ipad/ • Paprika User Guide for Mac: http://www.paprikaapp.com/help/mac/ The guides explain the organization of the app, and can help you understand how operations are performed. For example, deleting recipes or addiding recipes to a grocery list is typically performed from within a selected recipe. Here's the App Store link to the iPhone version of Paprika Recipe Manger: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/paprika-recipe-manager-for/id406732590?mt=8 And here's the iPad version: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/paprika-recipe-manager-get/id392408028?mt=8 There's also supposed to be a version for Android (English only, though.) HTH. Cheers, Esther -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
