Today’s screenshots focus on recipe organization. This has been a problem since there weren’t any obvious ways to easily organize your collection until now. The following mock-ups are still very preliminary at this point, but they point to one way of handling thousands of recipes. (Unfortunately, the sidebar will still show scrollbars in some cases, unless the entire layout of the window is changed drastically.)
The pop-up menu next to the (+) button will let you easily switch between different recipe collections in Cookbook:
You can view all of the recipes in your personal collection, the ones in a certain set, recipes on another computer on the network, or your RSS subscriptions:
Of course, there needs to be an easy way to manage your recipes. So selecting “Manage Sets…” in the pop-up menu will open a drawer:
With the drawer, you can easily create new sets and shuffle recipes back and forth between different collections like in iTunes. I was initially hesitant about adding a drawer (seemed outdated in Tiger), but in this case, it works exceptionally well. Aesthetics-wise, the drawer did need to be cleaned up a bit to be brought up to speed with the rest of Tiger, so I did just that.
The user can keep the drawer open if he/she wants, or have it closed to work within just one set.
If the drawer is closed, dragging a recipe icon to the left edge of the window will open it for the user to drop it onto a set. Once the mouse button is released, the drawer will close by itself.
