Agreed!! I roll my eyes while I still do it b/c I'm chasing the SEO of it all. I wish we could paste a whole recipe and have it format correctly, without having to spend so much painstaking time on this part of it.
I am sure @Substack Team will improve the recipe card. I am so used to using WP recipe maker. As you say, copying and pasting, line by line is time consuming. With WP recipe maker you can do it as a block, with tick boxes to separate each section out.
Thank you for following this up Lynn. It really annoys me when an author takes great pains to talk about a subject/ingredient, building up to the recipe. And then...on Substack there is no way to cut & paste it. I try, I really do.
Sometimes I'm allowed to cut & paste the whole recipe but in many cases, once I've managed to shade out the recipe I find that the whole article has been shaded out. After 2 or 3 times I give up. I am not going to cut & paste sep lines & paras, that is such a pain. It's far easier to do in email version.
I keep recipes on my phone in the notes field wallet. I don't want to print out hard copies..
Ooh, I thought from the title you meant to ask how we store our own recipes, my answer is in half-titled docs, haha. Other people's recipes I very rarely save, sometimes I copy one or two into a doc if there's something to review or think about.
I guess it’s a bit of both. I am trying to discover if readers in general, actually make use of the recipe cards on recipe posts. eg do people print them off, copy and paste them to a digital folder or pull them into a recipe app.
I did see an app ages ago that pulled in all sorts of recipes but 🤷♀️. I feel like print makes sense too. I don't have many recipes up so I haven't really thought about that bit!
There are several apps available that pull recipes from most platforms. But as most websites' earnings come from ads, these apps do not encourage you to revisit the website to make the recipe; you basically view them on the app.
I am still hoping for improved functionality on this plug in. Copying and pasting line by line is a pain.
Agreed!! I roll my eyes while I still do it b/c I'm chasing the SEO of it all. I wish we could paste a whole recipe and have it format correctly, without having to spend so much painstaking time on this part of it.
We are told to write for UX first. But we always have to consider Google, SEO and now GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation), in other words, AI.
ugh, nailed it!!
I am sure @Substack Team will improve the recipe card. I am so used to using WP recipe maker. As you say, copying and pasting, line by line is time consuming. With WP recipe maker you can do it as a block, with tick boxes to separate each section out.
I love that plug in!
Thank you for following this up Lynn. It really annoys me when an author takes great pains to talk about a subject/ingredient, building up to the recipe. And then...on Substack there is no way to cut & paste it. I try, I really do.
Sometimes I'm allowed to cut & paste the whole recipe but in many cases, once I've managed to shade out the recipe I find that the whole article has been shaded out. After 2 or 3 times I give up. I am not going to cut & paste sep lines & paras, that is such a pain. It's far easier to do in email version.
I keep recipes on my phone in the notes field wallet. I don't want to print out hard copies..
I’m glad you posted the original comment. It is certainly worth finding out.
I will print and save hard copy pages in my notebooks/cookbooks, so I always give a formatted PDF in my posts b/c I assume my readers do the same.
Some publishers add links to pdf’s and others add a recipe card. I am assuming readers print them off or copy and paste to their own files.
Ooh, I thought from the title you meant to ask how we store our own recipes, my answer is in half-titled docs, haha. Other people's recipes I very rarely save, sometimes I copy one or two into a doc if there's something to review or think about.
I guess it’s a bit of both. I am trying to discover if readers in general, actually make use of the recipe cards on recipe posts. eg do people print them off, copy and paste them to a digital folder or pull them into a recipe app.
I did see an app ages ago that pulled in all sorts of recipes but 🤷♀️. I feel like print makes sense too. I don't have many recipes up so I haven't really thought about that bit!
There are several apps available that pull recipes from most platforms. But as most websites' earnings come from ads, these apps do not encourage you to revisit the website to make the recipe; you basically view them on the app.