Recipe BoxA home for every recipe.
Start with the Add recipe form, import a URL, or paste recipe text. Keep ingredients and instructions together in a note you can edit.
YOUR RECIPE LIBRARY
Weeknight favorites.md
Sunday pancakes.md
Mum’s tomato sauce.md
YOUR RECIPES. YOUR VAULT.
A little less planning.
A lot more cooking.
Your favorite recipes, a plan for the week, and a grocery list that comes together. All inside Obsidian. All in notes you own.
Plain Markdown Desktop & mobile Open source
Recipes are notes. And they stay yours.
Recipes, meal plans, and grocery lists are stored as Markdown in your vault.FROM SAVED RECIPE TO DINNER
One place for the
whole cooking routine.
Bring the recipes you love into the way you already organize your life.
Give the week a little shape.
Drag recipes into a weekly plan, add custom meals, and keep unscheduled ideas in a queue. Edit the plan directly in Markdown, too.
AN EXAMPLE WEEK
MONTomato pasta
TUEVegetable curry
WEDLeftovers
One list. Fewer loose ends.
Bring ingredients from your meal plan into a consolidated grocery list. Merge duplicates, sum quantities, and add the extras you need.
AN EXAMPLE GROCERY LISTTomatoes800 g
Pasta400 g
Coconut milk1 can
04 / COOK
Less scrolling.
More stirring.
Turn a recipe note into a kitchen companion. Scale ingredients, follow the steps, and keep your place while dinner comes together.
Explore the recipe viewINGREDIENT SCALING
2 servings4 servings
200 g pasta 400 g pasta
Illustrative exampleTimings you can tap
Duration phrases in your instructions become timer buttons. Run multiple timers and hear an alert when they finish.
At home on your phone
Swipe between recipe tabs on mobile. Turn on cook mode to keep the screen awake while you cook.
Remember the good ones
Log when you cooked a recipe, with optional notes and a photo. Your history stays in the note’s frontmatter.
A little help choosing
Create suggestion modes with filters and scoring rules. Favor highly rated recipes, old favorites, or something you’ve never made.
Send a recipe, simply
Create a read-only recipe link with a 7, 30, or 90 day expiry. Recipients need no account or app, and you can revoke the link.
BUILT FOR THE WAY OBSIDIAN WORKS
A recipe collection.
Not another silo.
Use familiar Markdown headings or RecipeMD formatting. Choose which folders hold your recipes, and customize the properties you display.
Your notes work with Dataview and Obsidian Bases. Use the sync solution you already use for your vault.
Read the documentation Recipes / Sunday pancakes.md MARKDOWN
# Sunday pancakes
## Ingredients
- 150 g flour
- 250 ml milk
- 1 egg
## Instructions
1. Whisk the ingredients together.
2. Cook each pancake until golden.A regular note. Ready for recipe view.
MAKE ROOM FOR RECIPE BOX
Your next favorite recipe
belongs in your vault.
Install Recipe Box from Obsidian’s community plugin directory.
Open in Obsidian View the plugin directory listingInstall & enable
In Obsidian, open Settings → Community plugins → Browse. Search for Recipe Box, install it, and enable it.
Add your first recipe
Run “Recipe Box: Add recipe” from the command palette. Write your recipe, import a URL, or paste text into the form.
Make yourself at home
Open a note in the Recipes folder and switch to recipe view. Choose your library folders in Settings → Recipe Box → Recipe library.