I would love to see an integration with Cooklist!
Hey there! Long time subscriber, but only an occasional logger because I really struggle to keep up with logging because I cook a lot. I’ve tried the recipe import feature, and it helps - but I often adjust the recipe as I cook, change it over time, and sometimes I’ll swap things on my meal plan. Between Cronometer and meal plan management tasks, which both involve scheduling and logging food, meal plan always wins - and I don’t have the features I need in Cronometer to make it my main meal planner.
I am a longtime Paprika user, but I’ve recently switched to Cooklist because it includes more intuitive pantry management and suggests recipes with AI, and it’s going to be a permanent switch for me. In Cooklist, when you have a recipe open and scheduled to a day, you can mark it as cooked, which then shows a panel to update your pantry ingredients. When I mark a recipe as cooked for one of my meals, I would love to add 1 serving of that recipe to my log for that meal in Cronometer, with the ability to review the imported recipe before completing logging if the recipe is new and not in my custom recipes.
I think it would be a great integration - I hope you’ll consider it!
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Just an update on this - I wrote the same to Cooklist and they mentioned they’d love to integrate and have tried reaching out to your team, but haven’t heard back. I hope you’ll consider working together, it would be so helpful to me!
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In general cronometer struggles with recipes for people who cook a lot. The importer is very good, but changing a recipe is pretty nightmarish for me. I'm always tinkering to improved flavor and nutrition, adapt to ingredients, etc. So recipes evolve over time. There is no good way to reimport those recipes after the fact, other than pasting ingredients. Which then leads to many versions in cronometer.
Bi-directional sync with recipe management software would be great. But then - which one? Even exporting the custom recipe database would be helpful. I think you used to be able to do that but can't anymore? Or it is one at a time? either way, doesn't work.
I think the right solution is to define an API that other programs can hook into. It would allow list and retrieval of current recipes, add a recipe, delete a recipe, and update a recipe.
I think cronometer doesn't want to do this because the excellent ingredient lists are their secret sauce. But many of their customers need this ...