jonnyjonny_uk
Senior Cook
Does anybody know if there are any good recipe management software programs worth having?
Thanks
Jonny
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Jonny
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candelbc said:Well.. I too have been pondering a good recipe software for quite some time. My dreams are to write a Freeware application that rivals the expensive versions and is extremely simple to use..
My wife and I had our first child this Monday, but the little guy isn't breathing too well on his own. So, we're going to be in the hospital for AT LEAST another couple of days.. While I am Internet'less, I am starting to work on a Recipe Management Program that will rival all others..
What I need is some suggestion. I would like a system that allows easy sharing, easy storage and categorization, and above all, easy to use.. I have read the other post, but I am going to use all of this free time to make something that I will use to manage ALL of my recipes.
I would really like all kinds of ideas for features. I'd even like to gear it for the users at DiscussCooking if at all possible. Similar interface, comfortable to use..
Let me know... It'd be a good chance for people to sound off what they want in a program. Especially a free one..
-Brad
ncage1974 said:What are you going to be developing it in? What is your development experience? I would consider myself as pretty much a veteran right now. Maybe a C# project and using WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) would be interesting. That way all your recipes would be stored on the web and you would hopefully never loose them with a computer disaster. If you want to get really interesting you could use XAML to display some really cool effect (of course this would take some time). Let me know i might be interested in something like this. Recipes would maybe be in XML format so anything could read them and format them however they wanted with XSLT.
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bjcotton said:I have been using MasterCook for several years. I was contemplating switching until I got a copy of MasterCook 9. I love it, I can copy recipes from websites directly into MC, I can copy from a word processor, it has shopping lists, it exports easily, I can change a recipe from one form of measurement into another (for instance some recipes come with measurements in weights...300mg or liters). The program came with I think 13 cookbooks in it and I have put 4 of my own into it. On my laptop I deleted all of their cookbooks and just have my own in it. It's versatile, useful and easy to use.
It's really funny to see programming and cooking hobbies go hand in hand. I can't think of any engineer that I know that loves to cook that hasn't at some point said "hey, I could build a pretty good cookbook applications". It's something about our need for order and logic. I hate having my recipes scrawled on pieces of paper and in books all over the apartment, and would LOVE an option where I could have a thin client in the kitchen that I could use to bring up recipes from a centralized server on my network. Somebody else pointed to the other thread on this topic, and I pointed out in there that I was in the process of designing a neat application also. I would rather use my handmade application than any out there anyways, even if they are better (Big Over recently caught my eye as some great looking recipe management software and even allows for the distributed scenario like I mentioned).ncage1974 said:What are you going to be developing it in? What is your development experience? I would consider myself as pretty much a veteran right now. Maybe a C# project and using WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) would be interesting. That way all your recipes would be stored on the web and you would hopefully never loose them with a computer disaster. If you want to get really interesting you could use XAML to display some really cool effect (of course this would take some time). Let me know i might be interested in something like this. Recipes would maybe be in XML format so anything could read them and format them however they wanted with XSLT.
Anyways congradulations are your first little one and i sure hope he gets well soon.
Ok on the question. I use mastercook. Any flaws? Yes you still have to enter the recipes. That is the biggest downfall. Data entry is not much fun. Epecially if the recipe is not on the web. In mastercook it allows you to create new cookbooks and i though it was cook if i could take some of my favorite cookbooks and transfer all the recipes to mastercook. Way to time consuming unless you got a lot of extra time to burn. I still use it for recipes i create (if i don't i will forget them) and recipes on the web that i try and love. There is one feature i hope they add to it in future. Recipes allow you to add one picture per recipe. Would be cook if you could add a picture for each step of the directions.
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