Only one picture allowed...disappointing, unusable for me - nestorph

It's always interesting to learn what makes other people's boat float. While I agree that the ability to add multiple pictures would be a nice to have, for me personally that isn't enough to offset all of the other features! I get around the single-graphic limitation by grouping them into a single image using an app--in my case, Graphic Converter, but there are many others. For me, the only item that is high on my wish list is creating recipes as ingredients. MG has a "Relation Manager" approach that isn't quite up to the mark. However, I know the developer has my item on his to-do list.
To each his own, I guess.

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Saturday, June 09 2007 @ 07:08 AM PDT

Only one picture allowed...disappointing, unusable for me - gaseous1

Hmm. A 2-star rating because multiple pictures aren't allowed. I guess if it's that important to you than that's OK.

I'd bet that most folks, myself included, are lucky to get one photo of nearly any recipe into this (or any other) program.

Multiple pictures for a given recipe just aren't important to me (... anyone else?). This program deserves a more objective critique if it's going to get such a poor rating from a reviewer.

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Thursday, June 14 2007 @ 08:31 AM PDT

Only one picture allowed...disappointing, unusable for me - Advenio

Support for more than 1 photo is definitely on my radar. It's just at a lower priority at the moment because people are asking for other things more. I also want to make sure the support doesn't make the UI more complex, so I'm still working on how best to do it. -- Michael

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Thursday, June 14 2007 @ 08:48 AM PDT

Only one picture allowed...disappointing, unusable for me - HansBR.old

Well, I can continue and give following suggestion:
On German recipe sites (Essen & Trinken) are already videos for certain recipes. This seems to be the future way.
Perhaps it is interesting to consider also this possibility.

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Friday, June 15 2007 @ 02:14 AM PDT

I stand by my review - Only one picture allowed...disappointing, unusable for me - eVolutionG

I am not posting a low rating to put the developer down, I am trying to put out a useful review. The overwhelming good reviews have actually misled me. I enthusiastically tried to program and was frustrated to find it useless in the end.

I understand this program gets good reviews because, apparently, the developer has been hard at work to improve it over the years, and, maybe - just maybe, since I haven't tried all programs - there is nothing better out there. The developer probably needs to be commended, but shortcomings need to be highlighted too. It's not because this program is the best in its class that it has to be used. The other option is not use <b>ANY</b> recipe programs if none meet your requirements!

My way of reviewing is not about normalizing the review to 5-star, i.e., giving 5-star to the best program (or the least imperfect) and accordingly less to the others. I rate based of the <b>actual usefulness</b> of the program for me, and frankly, this program is <b>useless</b> to me in its current state, hence my low overall rating.

Why is it useless to me? Because multiple pictures are essential to me! I just want to stress this out. The best descriptions of recipes, the ones that I'll be confident to try out, are the ones that have multiple pictures of the critical steps of the cooking process, because I am not a professional cook, and I don't have a good memory, so I need those pictures!

HansBR is also right in pointing to the need for videos, this is also an important feature to consider, and please, if video is included, don't assume we need only one video. Small independent video-clips of important cooking steps are important. I don't want to have to watch a long video, I'd rather clip out the important steps and watch them one by one, in small bites, when needed.

I currently have recipes with multiples pictures, and when I try a recipe, I even sometimes take my own pictures to add, it helps me remember and reproduce in the future with confidence. I also like to take pictures of the finished dish when particularly successful, or even the picture of the table with guest friends to remember the event, that is an important part of cooking in the first place!

So using this program would mean for me <b>INVESTING A HUGE AMOUNT OF TIME</b> building the database, but doing so and throwing away the extra pictures. The end-result would not be what I want. So I just am not going to use this program, which sadly means it is useless to me in its current state, and a useless program does not deserve 5 stars.

So I'll just wait and stick to my ad-hoc system, as painful it is, hoping for a program that meets my basic requirements.

If I am taking the trouble to post this is that I really hope the developer will hear me and add the include multiple pictures feature. I desperately want to use a mac to store recipes! Personally, I don't care about the printing features, index cards and the like, I want a dedicated Mac in my kitchen and get instructions straight off the screen.

Now, flame me if you must, but I'd rather you actually read what I had to say. Nothing I said is unreasonable. The Mac, since 1984, is about <b>VISUALS,</b> so please drop the text-based paradigm for recipes, make this program more <b>VISUAL</b>!!!

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Tuesday, August 21 2007 @ 04:33 PM PDT

If you cook enough to need a recipe database - Central Scrutinizer--2008

then you shouldn't need pictures with your recipes.

It's a valid suggestion to make to the developer, but a two-star rating? That could affect his sales, and then you're less likely to see such a feature implemented.

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Tuesday, November 20 2007 @ 10:25 PM PST