Guide · Organizing
How to organize recipes on iPhone (the clean way).
Apple Notes was a band-aid. Notion was a project. There's a simpler, better way.
Apple Notes was a band-aid. Notion was a project. There's a simpler, better way.
Most home cooks accumulate recipes across 4-6 places: Apple Notes, screenshots, Instagram bookmarks, browser bookmarks, Notion, sometimes a paper notebook. The problem isn't the recipes — it's the fragmentation.
Step by step
5 steps · 15 minutes.
- 1
Pick one home for recipes.
Decide FOODIE is your one place. Anything outside FOODIE is temporary holding.
- 2
Bulk-import existing recipes.
Paste URLs, share-sheet from Instagram/TikTok, snap photos of cookbook pages, or dictate handwritten recipes. FOODIE's AI structures each one.
- 3
Create cookbooks.
Group recipes by context, not category. Examples that work: "Weeknight dinners," "Show off," "Quick lunches," "Mom's," "To try."
- 4
Use favorites lightly.
Star only the recipes you actually cook again. Keep favorites tight — under 30 — so it stays useful.
- 5
Search > organize.
FOODIE's search is fast. You don't need perfect tags — just enough cookbooks to browse mentally.
Pro tips
From people who do this every week.
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Don't over-tag. 3-5 cookbooks is plenty for most people.
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Treat "To try" as a queue — clear it monthly.
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Photos of cookbook pages count too — FOODIE scans and structures them.
Why FOODIE for this
Made for exactly this workflow.
Notion is flexible but not built for cooking — no cooking mode, no servings rescaling, no smart shopping list. Apple Notes is fast but unstructured. FOODIE is fast AND structured.
Try it for yourself
Try FOODIE today.
Free to download. Premium $3.33/month annually. Save your first recipe in under a minute.
Free to download. Premium $3.33/mo, billed annually.
Common questions
Frequently asked.
3 answers to the things people ask us most. Tap any question to expand.
01Should I use folders or tags?
FOODIE uses cookbooks (folders) plus search. We've found tags become clutter. Cookbook + search beats elaborate tagging for most cooks.
02Can I import from Apple Notes?
Yes — share or paste each note into FOODIE. AI structures the messy text into a real recipe.
03What about Notion recipe databases?
Export Notion pages or paste each URL. FOODIE imports structured cleanly. See our /vs/notion comparison for the full migration story.
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