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Recipe box

A recipe box your AI files for you: paste a recipe and it becomes a clean sub-note with ingredients as a checklist.

For cooks whose recipes live in screenshots, tabs and someone else's blog.

Free. Paste the prompt into ChatGPT or Claude with Amber Notes connected: it creates the note, then fills it in. For Claude Code, use its tab below. No Amber Notes yet? Download it for Mac.

Today

Recipe box

Your recipes, cleaned up and filed: one sub-note each, with the ingredients as a checklist you can tick off while you cook.

Weeknight

Weekend

Baking

Want to try

Tell your AI

First, look for a note called "Recipe box" in my Amber Notes with search_notes. If there isn't one, create it with create_note in the folder "Recipes", using exactly the markdown at the end of this message, the <!-- pane-table --> line included (it gives the table's columns their types). Then: Use my Amber Notes note "Recipe box". When I paste a recipe, clean it up: a title, servings and time on one line, the ingredients as a checklist, and short numbered steps, without the life story. Save it as a sub-note with create_sub_note under "Weeknight", "Weekend" or "Baking", whichever fits. Recipes I want to try later go under "Want to try" as a bullet with append_to_note. When I ask what to cook, search the box with search_notes.

```markdown
Recipe box

Your recipes, cleaned up and filed: one sub-note each, with the ingredients as a checklist you can tick off while you cook.

## Weeknight

## Weekend

## Baking

## Want to try
```

Paste it into a chat in ChatGPT with Amber Notes turned on. That chat keeps it; paste it again when you start a new one.

Then just talk to it

  • Save this recipe: …
  • What can I make with chickpeas and spinach?
  • Halve the lemon chicken recipe for two.

What you'll get

The same note after a few days of talking to your AI. Tinted lines are what it added, the way Amber Notes shows an AI's changes, with Undo and the earlier version kept in the note's history.

30 September 2026

Recipe box

Your recipes, cleaned up and filed: one sub-note each, with the ingredients as a checklist you can tick off while you cook.

Weeknight

Lemon chicken with rice Chickpea and spinach curry

Weekend

Baking

Cardamom buns

Want to try

  • Ramiro-style garlic prawns
  • Miso butter pasta

How to set it up

  1. Connect your AIConnect ChatGPT, Claude or Claude Code to Amber Notes once, and choose Read and Edit so it can write the note.
  2. Paste the promptCopy the prompt for your AI and paste it into a chat. It creates the "Recipe box" note in your Recipes folder, if you don't have it yet.
  3. Talk to your AITell it what happened, in your own words. It fills in the note, and you see every change in Amber Notes.

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