Browsing Recipes

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1. View toggle Browsing Recipes
2. Categories Browsing by Category
3. Search bar Searching Recipes
4. button Sorting Recipes
5. button Adding a Recipe
6. Timers Timers
7. Pinned recipes Pinning Recipes
8. above the categories Adding a Category

All of your recipes are displayed on the recipes screen. The left pane displays the list of recipe categories, while the right pane shows the recipes themselves.

Browsing by Category

All Recipes is the default selected category, which displays all of your recipes in alphabetical order. If you would like to change the selected category, simply click on a new category to highlight it.

Browsing Subcategories

Categories that have subcategories will have an expansion triangle displayed next to them. Click the triangle in order to reveal or hide the subcategories.

Searching Recipes

The recipes screen contains a search field in the upper right of the window. Click it, or press Command-F, and start typing, and your recipes listing will be filtered as you type.

Paprika looks for each word you type separately, and shows the recipes that contain all of them. For example, chicken spinach finds recipes that mention both chicken and spinach, in any order. A word can match part of a longer word, and capitals and accents don't matter.

While searching, the options above the results change what's searched:

• Search In - The fields to search: Name, Ingredients, Directions, Description, Notes, Source, and Source URL. Only Name is selected at first, and Paprika remembers your choice for your next search.
• Categories - Limit the search to one or more categories, or to Favorites, Uncategorized, or the Trash. Choosing a category includes its subcategories. When you choose two or more, choose All to find recipes in every one of them, or Any to find recipes in at least one.
• Cookbooks - Search one cookbook, several, or All Cookbooks. When a search covers more than one cookbook, the category list has a section for each cookbook.

A search starts in the cookbook and category you're browsing. To search your whole collection, choose All Recipes under Categories and All Cookbooks under Cookbooks. Click Cancel at the end of the search options to end the search.

Advanced Search

The advanced search editor finds recipes by almost anything about them, such as recipes under 30 minutes, recipes rated four stars or more, or recipes without a photo. To open it while searching, click Advanced… at the end of the search options. The editor starts with your current search.

An advanced search is made of rules. Each rule picks a field, a condition, and a value:

At the top of the rules, choose whether recipes must match all or any of them. Click the button to add a rule, or choose Add Group to add a group of rules with its own all or any choice. Click the button to remove a rule or group. Under Sort, you can choose how the results are sorted.

When you're done, click Search. The search options are replaced by a summary of what you're searching for. To change the search, click Edit Search.

Saved Searches Premium

You can save an advanced search to run again later. In the advanced search editor, click Save Current Search, enter a name, and click Save. Saved searches sync to all of your devices.

To run a saved search, open the advanced search editor and click the search under Saved Searches, then click Load. This replaces the search in the editor. Click Search to run it.

To change a saved search, load it, make your changes, and click Update Saved Search. The editor lists your first five saved searches. Click Show All… to see the rest, where you can right-click a search to Rename or Delete it.

Sorting Recipes

You can sort recipes by clicking the button in the top toolbar.

Choose the field you would like to sort by: Name, Rating, Most Recent, Prep Time, Cook Time, Total Time, or Servings. Then choose Ascending or Descending.