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Thanks, Jane, love the chefs hat bookmark features.  I'll eagerly await the filter/search improvement for multiple bookmarks at a time.

Question - Is there a way to do a blanket bookmark erase of all my old "Possible" bookmarks, so that I can change them to the new "I want to cook this"?  I can do it one-by-one, of course, but it will take time for my hundreds of Possibles.  (OK, I need to cook more, and less bookmarking . . .)

It would be great if recipes that we have bookmarked as "I want to cook this" popped up first in the results when searching recipes. Any chance of this being implemented in the future?

Also, I seem to have a bug... when I view my Notes on my profile page, a recipe shows up with the note "Cooked Mar 2017" that I have not marked as cooked. When I click on that recipe the note does not show on that page. (Though "I want to cook this" is tagged, which IS correct.) Not sure if a similar bug has occurred to anyone else?

One last thing -- any reason why we can only mark the month and year cooked, rather than full date?

lorloff - when we set up the ingredient categories we had a real battle with our developer who wanted us to keep the top level categories for ingredients as small as possible. We managed to stretch it to 12, which was about double what he wanted. So we did have to put a lot of ingredients into categories that may not seem perfect, such as eggs under dairy. It's not very obvious where else eggs can go - they aren't really a baking ingredient since they are also an ingredient in their own right and a savory ingredient. I have added it to our development to-do list to work out how we may accomplish what you need. And re your final question, no you cannot currently combine bookmarks but it is already on our to-do list.

Ed - you cannot currently transfer bookmarked recipes to a different bookmark. The easiest way to do it currently is to filter by your "Possibles" bookmark, choose the minimized data View as option (the left icon) then click the chefs hat down each one selecting I Want to Cook This. Don't bother deleting your Possibles bookmark as you will be deleting that at the end. Once you have done all your recipes, go to Bookmarks under your My Bookshelf tab and delete your Possibles bookmark. To check out how long it took I just did 112 of my recipes that I had tagged as Do Later and it took 6 minutes. I did find there were quite a few I had tagged that I am no longer interested in!

rionafaith - just filter your recipe results by the bookmark filter on the right to see all the recipes you have bookmarked as 'I Want to Cook This'. If you don't then find anything of interest, remove the bookmark filter and check again through all the results.
The extraneous note appearing when you add a bookmark is a bug and is being fixed now.
Having just month and year for date cooked is us trying to simplify the process. Does it make a big difference to you being able to add the precise date?

Thanks, Jane, the one-by-one bookmark changes work fine.

And, for me, the month and year is enough for a cook date - don't need the day, and keeps it simple.

Apologies for dredging up an old thread, but I figured it was better than starting a new one.

I wanted to echo Ed's sentiments about streamlining the interface for bookmarking recipes. While I like the new interface in general, the tiny pop-up window makes it really hard to select bookmarks.

On my system, the bookmark window takes up less than half the vertical height of the screen, and the bookmarks themselves only a small portion of that. The result is that I can only see five bookmarks without scrolling -- two of which are the new system bookmarks, leaving me only three of "mine." I also could use the keyboard to navigate the old interface -- something that doesn't work on the new one. That makes it really hard to "batch" bookmarks, which I tend to do for a new cookbook.

At a minimum, it would be really nice if the bookmark window scaled to take up more vertical space on the screen.

(As an aside, I'd love to transition my old "Recipes to Try" bookmark to the new "I want to cook this," but I have 4000+ recipes in that bookmark!)

I have passed that request for more bookmarks to display on smaller screens (is that a phone screen?) to our developer. I'll also find out if there is an easy way to transfer bookmarks.

Jane -- thank you! No, it's a laptop screen; I just cropped the screenshot to the bit around the dialog box.

I think I figured out this specific bookmark issue -- I just renamed my old bookmark to "I want to cook this" and it appears to have figured it out. It's a Retina MacBook with equivalent resolution of 1440x900. I had the same issue on my 1920x1080 external monitor. All in Chrome.

I know just enough CSS to get me in trouble, but I think it may be an issue of setting the dialog to a percentage of the window height rather than a fixed size.

Therese -- thank you :D I tend to use that bookmark to narrow my searches to "pre-screened" recipes, so I don't have any illusions about cooking all of them! More of a wishlist than anything.

dtremit - thanks for the info, very helpful. I think I can write a script that would replace every similar bookmark that members have created prior to our sticky bookmarks, 'I want to cook this' and 'I've cooked this'. These bookmarks have added features - the chef's hat at the front of the recipe title changes in color to green or orange if those bookmarks are selected. So when you are scanning your list of recipe search results you can easily spot which ones you have cooked before or tagged as on your to-do list.

How would members feel about an automatic transfer to those bookmarks? So if you had created a bookmark 'Want to try' or 'Must try' or 'wishlist' etc then the bookmark would now be 'I want to cook this' and the chef's hat would be orange. And if you had created a bookmark 'Cooked', 'Done'. or 'Made this' etc then the bookmark would become 'I've cooked this' and the chef's hat would be green. Thoughts?

Cati - I wasn't proposing moving anything but variations of "I want to cook this" bookmarks into the "I want to cook this" EYB bookmark and variations of "I've cooked this" into the "I've cooked this" EYB bookmark. Your bookmarks "make ahead" and "cooked chicken" would not fall into that so would not be touched.

Jane - Yes to automatic transfer of "Possible", and similar, to "I want to cook this" bookmarks.  But, first make sure a notification email is sent out to users that this will happen (not everyone reads the forum).

And, also concur with dtremit on a larger window for bookmarks to eliminate the need to scroll and thereby reduce bookmarking clicks from 4 to 3.