What's That Feature: Recipe Importing

Greetings Taco Tuesday Folks,

Welcome to the first Taco Tuesday newsletter! Each Tuesday, I’ll be highlighting one feature of the app. Those of you who are on my other mailing lists will recognize these as “What’s That Feature?” newsletters—or “WTF” for short.

Today’s WTF is all about the many, many ways you can get your recipes into Taco Tuesday.

Importing from Another Recipe App

If you’re coming from another recipe app, hopefully it’s respectful of your data and lets you export your recipes. Most of the popular apps do (including Taco Tuesday).

Once you have your exported recipes, Taco Tuesday can import them in just a few minutes. We currently support imports from:

• Paprika
• Crouton
• Mela
• Plan to Eat
• Mealie / Tandoor
• Cookbook Manager

If your app isn’t on the list, let me know. I’d be happy to see if I can add support for it.

To import your recipes, go to the Recipes page and tap the + button in the upper-right corner, then choose Import Recipes. Select the app you’re coming from, choose the exported recipe file (it’s easiest if you’ve already saved it to your device), and then pick the recipes you’d like to import.

Boom! (thats a cooking reference for those of you old enough to know)

This works from both the iOS app and the website at tacotuesdayapp.com.

Clipping Recipes from the Web

The most common way to add recipes is by importing them directly from a website.

From the Recipes page, tap the + button and choose Clip from URL. Paste in the recipe URL and let Taco Tuesday do the work.

Many recipe sites provide structured recipe data that Taco Tuesday can import automatically. If a site doesn’t, your iPhone uses on-device machine learning to read the page, identify the ingredients and directions, and build the recipe for you.

It’s “kind of AI,” so it’s always a good idea to give the imported recipe a quick review afterward. Just to make sure it doesn’t decide your pizza recipe needs glue.

Clipping from Text

Some websites make recipe clipping more difficult, which is understandable.

If you run into one of those sites, simply copy all of the text—even the five-paragraph life story about the author’s childhood—and paste it into Clip from Text. Taco Tuesday will use on-device machine learning to extract the recipe and ignore as much of the extra content as it can.

Clipping from a Photo

Have an old handwritten recipe from Grandma? Or something from a cookbook or magazine?

Choose Clip from Photo to take a picture or upload one from your photo library. Taco Tuesday will use on-device machine learning to read the recipe and add it to your collection.

That’s probably enough for one WTF.

Thank you so much for helping test Taco Tuesday. Your feedback has been incredibly valuable, and I’d love to hear any suggestions or ideas you have. You can always reach me directly at patw@tacotuesdayapp.com.

If you know someone who would enjoy helping test Taco Tuesday, feel free to share the TestFlight link below:

​https://testflight.apple.com/join/8vABZwKh​

Thanks again!

I hope tacos are on the menu for dinner tonight.

— Pat

BONUS WTF: On your iOS device, while you are browsing a recipe on a website, you can use the share button to share the page directly with Taco Tuesday and it will clip the recipe automagically! Wow!

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