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by doublepg23·4y ago·view on hn ↗
Will need to check this out.

I've been looking for a way to index my mother's recipes in a useful way, was somewhat motivated two years ago.

I wanted something that:

1. produced well formatted PDFs for printing (my mother prefers paper).

2. it would substitute different ingredients. i.e. this recipe contains milk, a simple button or keybind would change it to an appropriate milk substitute.

3. automatically produced different measurements.

I tried GNOME Recipes [1] as it checked a lot of boxes but it has some big bugs still that make it basically unusable.

I considered maybe doing something org-mode and emacs, but kind of lost interest after that...

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Recipes

1 comments
All great ideas, I've taken a note.

I'm not sure about "3. automatically produced different measurements.". What do you mean by that?

Like the ability to double measurements. In the emacs example you'd be able to hit a key bind, enter how much to divide or multiply the recipe and it would automatically change it.