Warning
This guide is for Paprika 4, which is currently in beta. Switch to the Paprika 3 guide.
Paprika allows you to organize recipes into categories to make them easier to manage.
Note
Each cookbook has its own set of categories.
To edit a recipe's categories, navigate into the recipe and press the button in order to edit the recipe. From here, click the Categories field to access the recipe's categories. You can check one (or more) categories to associate with the recipe — the field lists the categories currently selected. Press the button when you are done.
Shortcut From the main recipes listing, you can drag and drop one or more recipe rows into a category. This allows you to quickly assign categories to a recipe without having to open up the recipe itself.
Paprika can suggest categories for a recipe based on its name, ingredients, and directions. While editing a recipe, click the Suggest Categories button, with the sparkles icon, beside the Categories field. Paprika adds up to five categories to the recipe, using your existing categories where they fit. Review them before you save, and remove any you don't want.
Two settings in the Recipes group of the General tab in the Settings window control suggestions:
Auto-Suggest Categories - Suggests categories automatically when you add a recipe from the browser, the clipboard, or a scan. Off by default.Suggest New Categories - Lets suggestions include categories you don't have yet. Turn it off to use only your existing categories. On by default.The Suggest Categories button works whether or not Auto-Suggest Categories is turned on.
You can add a category by pressing the button in the categories toolbar.
Optional To create a subcategory, first select the parent category and then press the button. A new subcategory will be added to the parent category. You can also drag-and-drop to move categories into and out of subcategories.
To edit a category, simply click on it once, and then again. If you would like to delete the category, highlight it and right-click the category and press .
Use the sort menu in the categories toolbar to order your categories by Name (the default), or choose Custom to arrange them yourself — when the sort is set to Custom, you can drag and drop to rearrange the category order. When sorted by Name, you can still drag a category into or out of another category.
There are several built-in categories. These categories cannot be removed and provide special ways to view your recipes:
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
| All Recipes | Lists all of the recipes in your collection in alphabetical order. |
| Most Recent | Sorts your recipes by the date they were added, with the most recent recipes near the top. |
| Top Rated | Lists all of the recipes in order from highest star rating to lowest. |
| Favorites | List all recipes that you have added to your favorites. |
| Uncategorized | Lists all of the recipes that have not been assigned to a category. |
| Trash | Lists all of the recipes that have been marked for deletion. They cannot be opened or edited. Emptying the trash will permanently delete these recipes. |