Intro

The Idea:

This website is built on software called bookstack which organizes pages into chapters and books, and books into shelves. My idea is that each person (or family) creates their own shelf. Each shelf should contain books that represent different food categories such mexican, smoking, slow cooker, drinks, etc. Each recipe is a page, if you have more than one recipe that you want to group together, such as multiple recipes for the same thing, you could make a chapter that contains multiple pages. 

For example Hannah and I have a chicken burrito recipe that we really like which is located in Cody & Hannah (shelf) > Mexican (book) > Chicken Burrito (page). I also have two recipes for smoking whole chicken located in Cody & Hannah (shelf) > Smoking (book) > Whole Chicken (chapter) > Beer Can (page) and Spatchcock (page).

 

How to:

To get back to this page at any point, click "Nagel Cookbook" logo on the top left

To get started, click "Shelves" in the upper right hand corner. From there you can browse other people's shelves or make your own by clicking "New Shelf" on the right hand side of the page. 

Within your shelf you can organize your recipes however you like, but you must create at least one book to hold them because you cannot hold pages of text directly on a shelf.

You can put pages directly into a book or you can group one or more related pages into a chapter. Chapters are completely optional and mostly act like a book within a book.

When creating each level of organizational unit, you are able to put descriptions, tags, or images for the item, but the only required data is the title. 

The editor for pages is very similar to Microsoft word or any other text editor. Just make sure to enter a title at the top of the page.

 

Logistics:

 

This page is hosted on a small webserver in our house and therefore is subject to downtime caused by things like power outages, internet outages, or blue hitting the power button. 

For security and ease of setup on my end, it is not possible for users to create their own accounts or to reset their password via email (even though the button exists, it does not work). Therefore if you ever want to add someone to the site or need to rest you password, contact Cody.