Home cooks lack private, selective ways to save and share recipes
Home cooks want to keep their recipe libraries private while sharing selected recipes with family or people outside their app, and saving recipes they find online for later. In the Nextcloud Cookbook requests, shared folders make it hard to share a recipe without exposing or mixing entire libraries, and the suggested workaround involves moving recipes and rescanning. A separate social-media user wants a private place for recipes rather than posting them publicly.
For home cooks who collect and share recipes. Mentioned from Dec 2019 to Sep 2025 on Bluesky and GitHub.
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So the features that I'd be keen to see would be some way for mum to be able to see my recipes, be able add her own to her own library and for me not to see her recipes (this is the issue with the shared recipe folder) unless she deliberately shares one with me, and then perhaps then I could 'Add'/copy to my library
I'd like to be able to share to non users as well. Either a single recipe or the entire thing (ideally, by tag or something too, but don't need to get too carried away)
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