In this series of mock-ups, you can see how one goes about manually entering a recipe, which a few forum members were curious about.
First though, I refined the original screenshot. I thought the old layout of the recipe viewer was too busy, so I moved around a couple of things. The look of the notes area was ripped-off from the new Leopard Mail notes feature, in case anyone’s wondering. (I tried a couple of alternative styles, but they all looked “off.”)
The following is what I imagine the recipe card editor would look like.
First, there is no need to open a new window just to enter in data, something which I’ve always found annoying in existing cooking apps. Second, the bar at the top goes into “construction mode,” so you’ll know at a glance if you’re editing mode or not. Last, I’ve always liked how easy it is to enter information in Address Book, so I styled the editor in Cookbook after it. You can easily move between fields by tabbing or shift-tabbing.
Concerning unit conversion, if the amount and unit fields are already filled out, switching the unit (e.g. going from ounces to grams) will automatically convert the value in the amounts field.
Finally, Cookbook supports multiple images per recipe card and always has in my mind. It’s just that existing mock-ups don’t show it.
If you bring your mouse cursor near the image field in the Cookbook window, an overlay will appear to let you navigate a set of images, as well as set default magnification values for pictures.
