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Really? I can't just "create new category" from within the recipe-editing view? Then why can I do it in the Paprika iPad app? Rather, you have to navigate back to the main Recipes view and add categories there first, then return to the recipe itself, and then you can assign the appropriate categories. You can't add new categories to a recipe from the recipe-editing window. I finally hit a point of genuine frustration when I tried to add a new category to a recipe while I was in the process of editing it. It doesn't even make suggestions for categories, which I think some people would want. The categories can be whatever you want, and Paprika gives you a clean blank slate. Regardless, from a $20 app, I expect better.Īs you find recipes online or add your own, you can also add a star rating to them, level of difficulty (easy, medium, hard), and categories, such as salads, baking, fish, and so forth. It was more like I noticed these eccentricities and then quickly figured out what I needed to do and moved on. To be fair, the lack of polish on the interface design that I've described so far was hardly bad enough to fully trip me up. For example, the Recipes button on the main navigation bar right brings you to your main list of recipes, unless you're already viewing a recipe, in which case you have to click on a different "Recipes" button shaped like a left-facing arrow at the top left. Sheesh.Īside from these obviously odd interface choices, other buttons just didn't work as I'd expected. Find a recipe you like, and you can click to add it… as long as you can find the button, which is now at the top right, formerly occupied by the "add new recipe" button, which has now moved to the bottom right when in browser mode. Paprika offers a long list of supported and partially supported websites from a bookmarks bar at the top of the window when you're in browser mode. When you're not managing your recipes, you can browse for new ones using a built-in browser. And the option to "add a new custom recipe" is an easy-to-miss plus sign at the top right. A syncing button, also oddly placed, lives at the very bottom left corner. Seeing as that far left rail functions as the main navigation bar, I think the settings button should be there, although it's not. It's just not a premium product, even though it's priced like one. Buttons feel out of place, and one or two didn't do what I expected them to do. But my main beef with Paprika is that the interface just isn't well refined. I can't even count the number of times I had to close the crash report window. Additionally, the Mac app contains a built-in browser, which didn't support Flash, meaning Flash crashed repeatedly while I was testing Paprika. The Paprika Mac app ($19.99) accomplishes the basic feats of digital recipe organization, but it's more meat-and-potatoes than haute cuisine in terms of features and execution.įor starters, it's expensive, considering there are better free alternatives, such as Evernote Food and Pepperplate. The digital solutions for recipe management these days let you clip recipes from the Web with a single click, rearrange your categorical sorting system without starting over from scratch, share recipes instantly, and automatically generate shopping lists based on the meals you plan to make. Recipe management is worlds better than it was in the days of coffee-stained index cards slotted into a little filing box-or worse, those horrendous photo-album-like books.
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