True Cookbook in Confluence - Organize Your Recipes

[Petr Slávik]

Hi, since I first got in touch with Jira and Confluence I wanted to use it to run my household. I have one specific question - do you have any good tips how to use Confluence as a cookbook to keep your recipes organized?

I was thinking about recording ingredients as labels so that I could filter based on ingredients I have on hand, but labels are only page-related. Is there a similar functionality that I could use in a simple list?

Thanks ❤

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Mine uses ingredients as labels, but that works because each page is a recipe.  I assume that's not working for you because you're not doing recipe per page.

I also use the page tree to very broadly classify recipes, mostly to avoid having too much of one type every week or so.  I have container pages for the broad class of recipe according to what the type of food is based on.  Pasta, curry, flatbread, soup, etc.

You could also look at page properties for the ingredients, they can be a bit more controllable and listable than the labels.

[Petr Slávik]

Thanks for the reply!

I actually wanted to do it the same way:

• Page tree to divide into categories by origin (Italian, Mexican...)
• Each recipe as sub-page with image, list of ingredients, steps, source, comments
• Ingredients listed as labels to allow querying (e.g. "label = garlic, tomatoes")

But I was thinking - is it possible to have the labels inside the text? Now I'm only able to add them to the bottom of the page.

I wasn't aware of page properties, have to investigate them further.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I'm afraid the labels are for pages, not for content.

[Petr Slávik]

Yep, I went through some more posts and documentation and I can only agree, thanks!