Cookbooks are your custom collections, a way to group recipes however makes sense to you: weeknight dinners, holiday baking, the dishes your family always asks for. You will find them in the Cookbooks view of the Recipes tab. A recipe can live in more than one cookbook, and putting a recipe in a cookbook never moves it out of your main library.

Creating a cookbook

From the Cookbooks view, create a new cookbook and give it a name. That is all it takes to start. You can add recipes right away or come back and fill it in later.

Renaming and deleting

You can rename a cookbook any time if a better name comes to you. You can also delete a cookbook you no longer want.

Deleting a cookbook does not delete the recipes inside it. A cookbook is just a grouping, so removing the grouping leaves every recipe safe in your library. You would only lose a recipe by deleting the recipe itself.

Adding and removing recipes

Add recipes to a cookbook with the picker, which lets you check off the recipes you want to include. Remove a recipe from a cookbook the same way. Again, removing a recipe from a cookbook only takes it out of that collection, it stays in your library and in any other cookbooks it belongs to.

You can also choose a cookbook when you save a new recipe, so it lands in the right place from the start. See How saving works in Tradish.

Sorting recipes inside a cookbook

Within a cookbook, you can order the recipes to suit how you use it. Sort by:

• Custom, an order you set yourself by dragging recipes into place
• Date added, by when each recipe joined the cookbook
• A to Z, alphabetical by title
• Cook time, from quickest to longest
• Difficulty, from easiest to hardest

Custom order is handy when a cookbook has a natural flow, like courses for a dinner or steps in a weekly rotation, and you want it to read top to bottom the way you think about it. Dragging to reorder is available while you are in Custom sort.

Searching within a cookbook

Open a cookbook and you can search inside just that collection, so a busy cookbook still turns up the recipe you want without pulling in your whole library. For searching everything at once, see Browsing and searching your library.

Favorites: the built-in collection

Favorites is a built-in collection that fills itself. Any recipe you favorite is gathered here automatically, and un-favoriting it takes it back out. You do not add or remove recipes from Favorites by hand, the favorite toggle does it for you. To see just your favorites, turn on the Favorites filter in the Recipes tab.

Think of Favorites as your shortlist of go-to recipes, always a tap away. For more on favoriting and the other ways recipes stay findable, see Tags, categories, and favorites.