I've used a few different recipe apps and websites in my lifetime. They were never quite right, but they did the job. I purchased my previous favourite app (I think for 5-8$ at the time? This was probably 7 or 8 years ago) for its pro features and ad-free use. But of course, as with so many things these days, it started to get worse. They eventually switched to a subscription model (thankfully my previous purchase was grandfathered in so I wasn't forced into a subscription). But it was the beginning of the end, and the final straw was the app's infusion of AI features. Time to jump ship... but to what? I've already done this so many times already. Was I going to keep doing this dance every few years, finding some new app that was good until it wasn't, then needing to export everything all over again... sounds exhausting. pancelor used Obsidian a lot already, for personal notes and game tracking. He's also a big on having stuff in simple, accessible file formats. After complaining about all of the above to him, he said, "I think I could make something like what you want." Then all of our recipes would be in markdown files, and they would be ours. No more needing to jump ship constantly. Even if someday Obsidian goes to shit, we've still got all our data in an easily readable file format, not locked into some special app interface. Sure, I'm interested. I wanted to start using obsidian more anyways, and this seemed like a good place to start. Well it's really the best thing ever! I love our recipe database!! It's far from complete, but I think that's the key. Accepting that it's sort of this perpetual work in progress makes it easier. Recipe doesn't have a photo? That's fine, it'll be added when we make it next (well, if we remember). Recipe still in the to-do inbox? We can add it next time we want to make it. One of the big features that I wanted was an integrated grocery list. This was a feature I liked from a previous app. I want to be able to easily tick off what I need instead of typing/writing it all out every time. I used part 1 of this tutorial to do exactly what I want. This way when deciding on weekly meals, it's super fast to uncheck what ingredients are needed. And for other/pantry items, I've got a store list that I can run through and untick what's needed and then check it off at the store when I've put it in the cart. Using syncthing, all of this is synced between our phones, so pance is also able to untick items that we need and it auto-updates the list. With the addition of bases, the dataview plugin isn't needed anymore. We've got a base that shows nice cards with the recipe photo in it and the ability to filter based on tags we've set (e.g. type of protein in the meal, type of meal/dessert). And a fun side-effect of all this is by tracking our weekly planned recipes in one notes & linking to these recipes (so we can remember what was planned), I can see how many of the recipies in the database we've actually made in the graph view & what recipes are frequent favourites. I'm so pleased with this whole thing! And best part is we can just keep changing it to suit our needs if/when they change again! 4/100 reply by email