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ANYLIST RECIPE IMPORT MAC

Textexpander got even more useful a while back when they added fill-in snippets.

ANYLIST RECIPE IMPORT MAC

The macros you make on the Mac can sync (via Dropbox) with your iOS device, which can come in very handy. So, if you're sick of typing in your address, you can assign a text trigger, such as ".address", and every time you type that it'll insert your address. If you're unfamiliar with Textexpander, it essentially allows you to create system-wide text macros. This sounds like the perfect place for Textexpander. I don't want to have to enter the date - my phone already knows the date, why can't it do it? I only need a few categories, and I don't want to have to type them in. However, this is still too much work for me (I'm lazy). I might just stop in to buy donuts on a Sunday morning, but a quick look at my phone let's me know that Lisa just used the last of the garlic powder and I might as well grab that too.

I always know what my wife needs at the grocery store, and she knows what I need.

And my six year old never has to reprimand me for forgetting to pick up his apples. I never have that nagging feeling that I'm forgetting something, and I never get home and kick myself for neglecting to pick something up.

I always know what I need when I'm at the grocery store.

I use the last of the peanut butter, I pull out my iPhone, hold down the home button, and say "add peanut butter to my grocery list".

I never forget to add something to a list.

This helps me in innumerable ways, which I will now outline. Perhaps my biggest use of Siri, however, is managing grocery lists. Remind to place that order when I get to work.īasically, it supplements my brain and helps me remember things I'm almost certain to forget. Remind me to bring Drew's snowpants to school on Monday morning at 6:30. Set a timer for 10 minutes (so I can kick the kids off my iPad).

To make this work you first need to go to Paprika's settings, select the Reminders Export Options, and set your list name to the one you use in the Reminders app (in my case it's named "Grocery"). Paprika works well with my system by letting me export ingredients from a recipe into a Reminder list, which then gets automatically sent to AnyList.

And, coming to the point of this post, it's really helpful for grocery lists.Īs I said in my last post, I like to use Siri and an app called AnyList to manage my grocery lists.

Everything is synced between our phones, iPads, and desktops (this does require buying mobile and desktop versions of the app).

All recipes are formatted with the same way.

It's nearly automatic if you're browsing a popular food site (eg, allrecipes, foodnetwork, epicurious, etc), and with minimal effort you can import recipes from more obscure sites.

Importing recipes from websites extremely easy.

Since that article summarizes Paprika so well I won't do that here, but I will point out some of my favorite features: But, I can never leave well enough alone, so when I read about The best recipe manager for iPhone on I decided I'd give Paprika a try. And, since we share an Evernote account we'd both have access to whatever was in there, whether we were at home cooking or at the grocery store buying the building blocks for our culinary masterpieces. If we liked grandma's potato dish at thanksgiving we'd just use the camera to take a picture of her recipe and it would be saved for posterity. If we found a recipe on the web we'd just use the web clipper and import it into Evernote. After getting our first iPhones, my wife and I had managed recipes in Evernote.