That would have been a good idea. I was under the mis-impression that Drop Box was as slow and difficult to use as SendSpace, and I thought it would drive me crazy to transfer hundreds of recipes that way.
I'm happy to have the WI Drive, but, obviously, Drop Box would have been a most cost-effective solution. Penny On 2/28/13, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Penny, > > The developers of Paprika are saying that there might be a PC app in time > or > maybe a web app which to me would make more sense since it would be > independent of the platform one uses. Now with Windows 8 and going forward > I > am afraid that if a Windows app is coming that it might be a metrol style > app, but of course that is just a guess. > > As far as having access to your text file recipes, why did you not simply > copy them into a Recipe folder in Dropbox? This would have given you access > via the Dropbox app without investing in additional hardware. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Penny Reeder > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 5:29 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Adding your own recipes to the Paprika Recipe Manager iOS app > > There is no Paprika version for a PC though. right? Do you think they > will > make one for PCs? > > My recipe solution is to purchase a WI Drive (which was on sale at > Amazon.com a few weeks ago for around $50), download the WI app, which is > free, and copy all of my .txt recipe files and folers to the drive. > Now, as long as I have WIFI, I can access my recipes no matter where I am, > and this makes me very happy. A different and more expensive solution for > sure, but if Paprika doesn't work with a PC, it was the best I could come > up > with. > > Thanks for so much consistently great advice. > Penny > > On 2/28/13, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. 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