Part 03 · Recipes · Getting recipes in

Four ways to add a recipe

Photograph it, paste a link, paste the text, or write it yourself.

Where this is in iWhisk

Capture, then Recipe source

The Capture screen with three mode buttons across the top: Kitchen inventory, Grocery receipt, and Recipe source. Recipe source is selected. Below it a framing panel reads Frame the recipe or dish, with the note a printed recipe, handwritten card, cookbook page, screen, or finished dish, and three buttons: Use camera, Choose photo, and Paste a recipe link. — Screen 3.01a Pick what you are adding first The three buttons across the top decide how iWhisk reads the photo. **Recipe source** is the one you want here. The other two send the same picture somewhere else entirely, which is the most common way people end up with a shelf of groceries where they wanted a recipe.

Photo. Cookbook pages, recipe cards, handwriting, a screen, or a finished dish.
Link. A recipe page or a cooking video.
Pasted text. Any site that blocks reading.
Write it. The things you make from memory.

The empty Cookbook, reading it can be complete, half remembered, handwritten, or simply something you already make. Four routes follow: Photograph a recipe card, Add something I make, Discover a public recipe with the note search before bringing anything into your Cookbook, and Private sharing, greyed out and marked available after a recipe is saved. — Screen 3.01b The same four, offered on an empty Cookbook A Cookbook with nothing in it yet asks the question directly. Note the fourth: **Private sharing is greyed out and says why**, rather than sitting there live and failing when you press it.

Every recipe you save is private. Nothing is shared, published, or visible to anyone else unless you deliberately create a link for it.

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Family recipes and half remembered ones

A recipe does not have to be complete to be worth keeping. Tell Chef Cooper what you remember and you get a workable draft, with the provenance still attached.

A card headed Chef Cooper, reading a family recipe doesn't need to be complete. Underneath: tell me what you remember, I'll help reconstruct it without erasing who it came from. A button reads Tell Cooper what I remember. — Screen 3.01c Half a recipe is a starting point The wording on this card is the promise worth holding it to: **without erasing who it came from**. You get a draft you can cook from, and the note that it came from your grandmother stays attached to it.

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Do this before you lose itThe index card in the back of a drawer is one flood away from gone. Photograph it, and write down what the card leaves out.