I wrote a plugin that imports your collected recipes from cooksync.app into Obsidian. I created Cooksync to provide an easy way to collect recipes from various sources (websites, social media, etc.) and then export them to Obsidian and other platforms. Personally, I don’t want to be locked into a traditional recipe manager for life.
For exporting, you have full control over the format using the Handlebars templating language, but the default export closely follows Recipe.md.
iOS and Android apps are coming very soon! I’m also considering adding Cooklang support - let me know if that’s something you’d like to see.
Cooksync is not free at the moment, but I’d love to introduce a free tier once I have enough users.
First of all, it’s hard to provide feedback on something you don’t have any info/link about. So the first step was to copy/paste Cooksync into Google and search for it.
As we’re talking about the Obsidian plugin, this link … GitHub - furst/cooksync-obsidian … would be a minimum you should provide.
I guess the Chrome extension doesn’t play any role with Obsidian.
And then there is a web page, which is nice-looking and provides some info. Not a lot, but something. As I’m a visual person, I was hoping to see at least some lovely big images or videos to see what I can get for 29$/year. It’s not about money, but it’s about what I get.
Otherwise, as I’m still looking for reasonable solutions for my recipes, I’m willing to follow to see what it will be about.
Maybe it’s because my account is new, but I couldn’t include links in my post. I really appreciate you taking the time to search for them and add them.
Good point about the information on the website - I’ll try to record a video or something soon, so keep an eye out!
Meanwhile, here’s a more detailed summary of what the platform does:
When you find a recipe you want to save, click the Cooksync Chrome extension icon (if installed). It will grab and parse the recipe, then save it to Cooksync. It first looks for recipe structured data(the data Google uses to display recipes in search), but if that doesn’t exist, it uses AI to extract the recipe. Once the mobile app launches, you’ll also be able to use the share button in apps like Instagram and YouTube.
If you have the Obsidian Cooksync plugin installed and configured, the next time you open Obsidian, your collected recipes will be imported into your preferred folder. You can fully customize the format to your liking. More info at cooksync.app/docs/obsidian.
The idea is that you don’t use the Cooksync platform itself. It just serves as a proxy.
… but still, I will wait for some “demo video”.