I no longer trust The Great Suspender

Re:I no longer trust The Great Suspender by beepboop43 on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @01:07PM (#25849698)

I'll add that I recently found how well Paprika handles printing recipes you have in your library. I wanted to print off a bunch of recipes to put in a binder and was very happy with how clean and simply formatted each recipe was, often with room to write notes on the paper. My only wish is they would implement a "family" option where I could easily share my library of recipes with my girlfriend without having to share them one at a time.

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Re:I no longer trust The Great Suspender by joshstrange on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @01:16PM (#25849835)

> My only wish is they would implement a "family" option where I could easily share my library of recipes with my girlfriend without having to share them one at a time.

I normally abhor "social" features being tacked on when they aren't useful but I'd pay for all the apps over again for this feature. Thankfully the API is pretty straightforward. This repo of mine [0] is super dated but it was still working the last time I played with Paprika's API.

I've toyed around with setting up a little web app that my friends can log-in with their paprika creds (I know, I know, but I'd tell them to use a 1-off password for this) so that they can use the web app either push or pull recipes from each other.

Thankfully you can send the full paprikarecipe file via email and import it but it's a little clunky and things like Discord (which my friends use to chat) doesn't like file extensions over 12 characters (IIRC) so it just cuts off the rest of the extension characters leaving you with a file you can't open (without fixing the extension). I have some initial work to setup an AWS SES address that people can send recipes to that will then drop a preview and link to download (not an attachment, it would be hosted on S3) the recipe into a "recipes" Discord channel we use but it's still a WIP.

[0] https://github.com/joshstrange/paprika-api

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Re:I no longer trust The Great Suspender by djrogers on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @04:12PM (#25852057)

> My only wish is they would implement a "family" option where I could easily share my library of recipes with my girlfriend without having to share them one at a time.

My wife and I work around that by simply using the same paprika account for cloud sync...

Paprika is a huge time and sanity saver for me - it'd be totally possible, but much harder for me to cook for big events without it!

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Re:I no longer trust The Great Suspender by wlesieutre on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @01:16PM (#25849830)

I love Paprika, my one complaint about it is that you have to be careful with the ingredients multiplier feature. It only touches the number at the start, so "1 large onion thinly sliced, about 2 cups" turns into "2 large onion thinly sliced, about 2 cups."

If you're not paying attention you can miss that it really needs 4 cups.

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Re:I no longer trust The Great Suspender by joshstrange on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @01:23PM (#25849931)

Agreed, I've run into the same issue. I had hoped that the numbers row they show above the keyboard (on mobile) meant they were "special numbers" that would scale but alas it only scales the first number AFAICT.

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Re:I no longer trust The Great Suspender by zerd on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @03:02PM (#25851208)

> My only wish is they would implement a "family" option where I could easily share my library of recipes with my girlfriend without having to share them one at a time.

I thought that was the paid Cloud Sync feature was for. Does it not work for that?

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Re:I no longer trust The Great Suspender by joshstrange on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @11:11PM (#25855290)

I'm pretty sure Paprika Sync is free (with purchase of app) but yes, if you login to the same account it will sync (I used this with my partner very successfully). I think the person you are replying to is talking about having separate Paprika Sync accounts but still being able to share one-off or a subset of recipes.

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