What’s new

Recipes can now travel as plain Markdown files you can read, edit, and keep anywhere, using the open RecipeMD format.

• Import RecipeMD files alongside links and JSON files. Each one waits for your review, with a note for anything that changed on the way in, like formatting reduced to plain text or a yield that isn’t a serving count.
• Export any recipe as RecipeMD (.md) from the recipe menu. Ingredient lines are written exactly as you entered them, and recipes from the web keep a line naming their source.
• See what each export leaves out before you download. Under each format, the recipe menu lists what that format can’t carry for that recipe, such as photos, creator notes, or version history.
• Files that aren’t valid RecipeMD are turned away with the line to fix, like a missing title or a missing --- divider.
• Ingredient and step headings are kept while you review. Lecinote can’t save grouped recipes yet, so Remove group headings keeps every ingredient and step in order and lets you save.

Elsewhere:

• Settings navigation is more compact on phones and tablets.

Cooking mode now reads better from across the kitchen and fits the device you cook with.

• One action per line. Imported steps that pack several actions together with bullets now show each action on its own line. Your saved recipe isn’t changed.
• A compact recipe header. Each recipe shows a small photo, “Step 2 of 6”, and a progress bar with one segment per step, leaving more room for the instruction.
• Look back without losing your place. Previous step opens the last step you finished, read-only, then takes you straight back.
• Bigger text on tablets and larger buttons throughout, so you can tap with a floured finger.
• A layout for every screen. One recipe at a time on a phone, two or three side by side on a tablet, four on a laptop and five on a wide display. The meal map shows which recipes are on screen and how far along each one is.
• Phones propped sideways show the instruction on the left and your next action on the right.

Elsewhere:

• Start cooking straight from a recipe page when no meal is in progress.
• Recipe and library photos now fill their frames.
• Long imported descriptions fold behind Read more.
• Two-column ingredient lists read down each column.
• The meal planner’s cooking bar stays quiet until you select something.

Importing is now a batch job you can walk away from.

• Paste up to 10 links, or drop up to 10 JSON or JSON-LD recipe files, in one go.
• An import inbox tracks every source while Lecinote works through it, and shows what’s ready to review, what’s saved, and what couldn’t be imported, with a reason.
• Pages with more than one recipe let you choose which ones to bring in.
• Duplicate links are caught before they’re imported twice.
• Each import still waits for your review before it joins your library.

• Review corrections save automatically while you check an imported recipe, so a closed tab or dropped connection doesn’t lose your work.
• Save and next moves you straight to the following import when you’re reviewing several.
• Recipe details embedded in web pages are found more reliably.

• Install Lecinote on your phone, tablet, or computer so it opens like an app, without browser bars. On iPhone, Safari shows a short reminder of how. See how to add it to your home screen.
• A friendly offline page appears if your connection drops, instead of a browser error.
• A calmer reconnecting notice replaces the error banner when Lecinote briefly loses its connection.
• The Lecinote wordmark stays visible at tablet widths.