When I started writing this in February, I thought it was quite niche. But when restaurants and pubs closed because of Covid-19, home cooking became the new eating out and it's now surprisingly relevant. I've always been a keen cook and have a shelf of recipe books, a box full of recipes ripped from magazines and a random collection of bookmarks for recipes all over the web. Over the years, I've tried to organise all these. I wanted something that was visual but also had great tagging and searching to help me manage my collection. Most of the food-specific apps were very expensive. The free Yummly is an amazing treasure-trove of recipes but it didn't have the flexibility I wanted. I tried Pinterest, Trello and Airtable, which are great solutions for some projects but none of them worked for my recipes. Then I found the answer: CopyMeThat. I discovered it while hunting for a recipe that was on a website that had closed. That's the beauty of CMT; it doesn't just bookmark the recipe, it saves a copy so that you still have it even when the original has disappeared. Web pages are ephemeral things! Things I love about CMT:
Downsides? It doesn't have the user base of sites like Yummly so I can't guarantee it'll be around for ever. If it doesn't, you can export your recipes to an HTML file – complete with pictures and the links to the original recipe sites – which you can use as a Word document. I must also say, it's functional rather than beautiful. Check out my recipe collection; I hope it inspires you. Bon appétit!
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22/5/2020 09:25:46 pm
I am Admin for a beginners pressure cooking group on Facebook. We have a group social recipe box with thousands of recipes we have saved in this group since 2017. It's so easy, all you have to do is setup your account and follow the recipe box. We have over 5000 recipes being shared by over 6800 people! There is no recipe solution that can do this! And did I mention you can do this all for free? I went ahead and paid the $25 US for the lifetime premium membership. What a powerful tool for little or no investment! https://www.copymethat.com/recipebox/gayle-bell-101-family-recipe-box/2377260/
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22/5/2020 09:34:37 pm
Their Facebook business page has a list of amazing tutorials on all of the features, free and premium. https://www.facebook.com/copymethat/posts/1560703677407840
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Brantome
3/3/2021 10:12:01 am
Note that in order to comply with data protection etc and the rights of bloggers and other website owners to whose sites CopyMeThat links, it doesn’t always copy the full recipe into your collection. Indeed, the app isn’t available in the iOS App Store because a couple of sites complained about users linking to their sites, totally misunderstanding how CopyMeThat goes to great lengths to protect their rights. You can still access your recipes thru a browser on iOS, so all is not lost. It’s a very useful app, just be aware that if a website disappears, so might your link to a recipe it held.
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