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How can you bookmark recipes in bulk? I have set myself a challenge to cook every recipe in a book, which is apparently 150+ recipes. I would like to bookmark all the recipes in the book, so I can easily see which ones I have left to try. I can change the bookmark once I have finished them. Any ideas?

Is it easy enough to get a list of recipes in a book without a certain bookmark? At the moment I havent made many so it's easy to remember what I haven't made yet. But I imagine, as I am not making them in any particular order, that it will get more difficult as I get near the end.

Hi Dustygn - have to ask, but why the challenge - what's the book that has fired your interest? I'm reminded of the movie Julia.. with Meryl Streep! Good luck in your challenge.. sorry no idea re ideas to keep track other than maybe put an EYB note (either personal or open to the community) next to each recipe in which you could also log your thoughts on the recipe, then when you look at the book on EYB recipe list  the ones without a note indicator would be ones left to try, which would also be useful if you were searching by specific ingredients... have fun!

Well, I got the idea from my friend, who is doing the same, not sure which book caught her eye, but no doubt her inspiration was from that movie. I am using Annabel Langbein's A Free Range Life, mostly cause it looked like a good way to make use of veges from my garden.

Currently I am just bookmarking the recipes I have completed, but it can see it will get harder to find my list of unmade recipes as there are less and less of them. Printing the list out would have a similar problem, but I could handle keeping them electronically. Possibly in an excel document, so I can sort the unmade ones to the top.

I wasn't going to suggest this because it could be a bit tedious, but it's a lot less tedious than entering the recipe titles on a spreadsheet and it's a solution that stays within EYB, so:

Bookmark all the recipes you haven't made yet; the good news is that there are only 140 recipes total in the book.  Use a bookmark that begins with a letter that none of your other bookmarks begin with -- e.g.  'Yet to make FRL', so that as you read down the recipe listings you just have to click the 'add Bookmark' symbol, type Y, and click 'Save'. {To EYB developers: Repetitive bookmark additions like this are why I wish users could just hit 'enter' to Save after selecting a bookmark, rather than having to move hands off the keyboard to mouse-click on 'Save'...}

As you make each recipe you apply whatever Bookmark you've chosen for that, as you've been doing, and remove the Yet to make bookmark.

When you're looking at the recipe listings for A Free-Range Life, clicking on 'Yet to make FRL' will show you your to-do list, and you can sort the list alphabetically, reverse alphabetically, or by Buzz (notes) or Ratings (stars), as well as the default Book Order.  You can also view the list via your Bookmarks, or by viewing your Bookshelf's Recipes and choosing 'Yet to make FRL' in the 'Show only Recipes..' dropdown menu. <--Sort options with this last method are not quite the same as those in the book's recipe listing.

Yeah I might have to go with that. I wasnt going to type them manually into a spreadsheet, I figured surely there was a way for me to just copy and paste it in. But I guess just setting the bookmarks on the unmade ones is not any harder. It's unfortunate that it takes so many steps to add a bookmark. But it's far more valuable to have the record here.

I haven't quite worked out which recipes are missing as the cover of the book says there are 150+ recipes, but maybe they are including variations of the same recipe in the count...