Recipes

The Recipes database stores all of your recipes. (Here’s how to find it in your template)

Below you’ll find a reference guide for all database templates and properties in the Recipes database. Properties are in alphabetical order.

Database Templates

These are the database templates that can be found in this database. Refer to our guide on working with database templates if you’d like to edit them or create new ones.

Recipe Template

This simple template creates sections for Ingredients, Instructions, and Notes about the recipe.

Recipe w/ Shopping List

This template adds all the sections from the Recipe Template, and also adds a filtered view of the Tasks database, showing only tasks with the “Shopping” Context.

Note: I added this view for folks who really want to create grocery lists in Notion, but I personally find it better to reference my recipes in Notion and add grocery items to the stock Reminders app on iOS.

Properties

Chef Name

Type: Rich Text

The name of the chef/author of this Recipe.

Cook Time

Type: Number

The cook time for this recipe.

Created

Type: Created Time

The date when this Recipe was added/created.

Edited

Type: Last Edited Time

The date on which this Recipe was last edited.

Favorite

Type: Checkbox

Mark this Recipe as a Favorite to have it show up in your Favorite Recipes views.

Inbox

Type: Checkbox

When checked, this Recipe will only show in your Recipe Inbox.

Is Quick

Type: Formula

Will be checked if the total time for this recipe is at or below the threshold value.

By default, the threshold for a Quick recipe is 45 minutes. You can unlock the Recipes database and edit this formula to change this value.

prop("Total Time") <= 45
Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

Meal Time

Type: Multi Select

The meal time(s) for this recipe.

Name	Description
Breakfast	N/A
Lunch	N/A
Dinner	N/A
Snack	N/A

Name

Type: Title

The name of the recipe.

Prep Time

Type: Number

The prep time for this recipe.

Servings

Type: Number

The number of servings this recipe makes.

Tags

Type: Relation

The Tags attached to this Recipe.

This Relation property connects to the Recipes relation property in the Recipe Tags database.

Time Card

Type: Formula

The total time for making this recipe (prep + cook time), formatted as a cute little card (string value).

lets(
	totalTimeRaw,
	prop("Cook Time") + prop("Prep Time"),
	hours,
	floor(totalTimeRaw / 60),
	minutes,
	totalTimeRaw % 60,
	hourPlurality,
	if(
		hours == 1,
		"",
		"s"
	),
	minutePlurality,
	if(
		minutes == 1,
		"",
		"s"
	),
	time,
	ifs(
		totalTimeRaw > 60,
		hours + " hr" + hourPlurality + ", " + minutes + " minute" + minutePlurality,
		totalTimeRaw == 60,
		hours + " hr",
		minutes + " min" + minutePlurality
	),
	time.style(
		"c",
		"b",
		"green",
		"green_background"
	)
)
Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

Total Time

Type: Formula

The total time for making this recipe (prep + cook time), formatted as a numeric value. Used for sorting in the Quick views.

prop("Cook Time") + prop("Prep Time")
Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

URL

Type: Url

The URL of this recipe, if it was found online.

URL Base

Type: Formula

The base domain of this note’s URL property.

prop("URL")
	.replace("[^]*//", "")
	.split("/")
	.first()
Code language: JavaScript (javascript)