Browsing Recipes

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

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 box in the toolbar that you can use to search for specific recipes in your collection. Click it and start typing, and your recipes listing will be filtered as you type. The search options appear below the toolbar while you search. Click Cancel in the search options to end the search.

Paprika matches what you type against the start of words, so chick finds "chicken" and "chickpeas", but cake doesn't find "pancake". Words you type together are matched as a phrase, so sour cream finds "sour cream" but not "cream, sour". Capitals and accents don't matter.

By default, Paprika searches the name of the recipe. Use the button next to the Search In label to search one or more recipe fields: Name, Ingredients, Directions, Description, Notes, Source, or Source URL. Paprika remembers your choice for your next search.

Searching Categories

You can search for recipes across multiple categories by clicking the button next to the Categories label in the search options and selecting one or more categories. You can also choose Favorites, Uncategorized, or the Trash. Choosing a category includes its subcategories. When you choose two or more, use the Match dropdown to choose All Categories or Any Category.

A search starts in the cookbook and category you're browsing. Click the Cookbooks button to search other cookbooks, or check All Cookbooks to search your whole collection. When a search covers more than one cookbook, the category list has a section for each cookbook.

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… in the search options. Any words in the search box become rules in the editor.

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 green + button to add a rule, or choose Add Group to add a group of rules with its own all or any choice. Click the red - 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….

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 double-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. To rename or delete a saved search, right-click it in the editor and choose Rename or Delete.

Sorting Recipes

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

You can sort recipes by Name, Rating, Most Recent, Prep Time, Cook Time, Total Time, or Servings. Under Order, choose Ascending or Descending.