Organize your library

As your library grows, search, favorites, tags, and books help you find the right recipe quickly. None of them change the recipe itself.

Search for a recipe

Open Recipes and type part of a recipe’s name or one of its ingredients. Search also looks at authors, steps, notes, sources, and your own tags and books.

• Every word you type has to match somewhere in the recipe.
• Words match from the start, so saff finds saffron.
• Capital letters and accents don’t matter, and a small typo in a title or author still works: choclate finds chocolate.

Use Filters to narrow the results, and the sort control to change their order.

Stated by the recipe in Filters finds recipes by what their source says, such as vegan or peanut-free. Savorum never works this out from the ingredients and never checks it. A recipe that says nothing doesn’t match, and that means unknown, not free from. Always check the ingredients yourself when it matters.

Mark a favorite

Open a recipe and choose the heart next to its actions. Choose it again to remove the favorite.

Add tags and books

Tags are your own labels, like weeknight or make again. Books are ordered collections, like a family cookbook, with chapters, a cover, and notes. A recipe can have any number of tags and be in several books.

1. Open a recipe and choose Organize.
2. Under Books and Tags, select the ones you want. To make a new one, choose Create a book or Manage tags.
3. Choose Save changes.

To file several recipes at once, select them in the library and choose Organize. Tags you don’t mention stay as they are.

Rename, combine, or delete tags

Open Tags and categories to rename a tag or category, combine two into one, or delete one. Each shows how many recipes use it.

Deleting a tag that recipes use asks you first and tells you how many recipes it will come off. Combining and deleting can’t be undone, but neither one deletes any recipes.

Save a search you use often

A saved search remembers the search, not a fixed list, so new recipes that match appear in it automatically.

Add these shortcuts to the search box for more precise searches. Put quotes around a name with spaces, like tag:"make again".

Type this	To find
tag:weeknight	recipes tagged “weeknight”
book:weekday	recipes in the “weekday” book
cuisine:thai	recipes in your “thai” category (also course:, method:, dietary:)
author:"Julia Child"	recipes by that author
ingredient:chicken	recipes with chicken in the ingredients, not just the steps or notes
source:smitten	recipes whose source website, title, or cookbook mentions “smitten”
stated:vegan	recipes whose source says they’re vegan
free:peanuts	recipes whose source says they’re peanut-free
favorite:true	your favorites
rating:4	recipes you rated 4 stars or more
made:never	recipes you haven’t cooked yet
missing:ingredients	recipes with no ingredients yet (also missing:instructions, missing:either, missing:both)
import:	recipes from one import, as used by the links on an import’s report

Record where a recipe came from

Each recipe has fields for its source, such as a website, an author, or a cookbook and page number. You can also keep a list of the printed cookbooks you own. If an imported recipe has a cleaner public link than the one Savorum saved, add that instead.

Good to know

• If you rename a tag or book, update any saved searches that use its old name.
• If saving several recipes stops partway, the ones already saved stay saved, and you’re offered the rest again.
• Recipes in the trash only show up when you search the trash. Restoring a recipe puts it back in its books. Deleting it permanently removes it from them.
• A recipe with translations shows as one card, in the first of your recipe languages it has.
• Tags, books, notes, ratings, and cooking history belong to your library, so they stay behind when you export a single recipe.

Next: Cook a recipe.