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. Use template opens Pinto Notes and adds the note. No Pinto Notes yet? Download it for Mac.
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
The note after a few days of talking to your AI. Tinted lines are what it added, the way Pinto Notes shows an AI's changes, with Undo and the earlier version kept in the note's history.
What the prompt does
Your AI creates a note called “Recipe box” in your Recipes folder, or finds the one you already have, and learns how to keep it. Your recipes, cleaned up and filed: one sub-note each, with the ingredients as a checklist you can tick off while you cook.
Paste it once into a chat in ChatGPT or Claude with Pinto Notes turned on, or into Claude Code.
Then just talk to it
- Save this recipe: …
- What can I make with chickpeas and spinach?
- Halve the lemon chicken recipe for two.
Show the full prompt
First, look for a note called "Recipe box" in my Pinto 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 Pinto 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 ```
The note you start with
This is what the prompt creates in Pinto Notes: an ordinary note with the headings ready. Your AI fills it in from there, and you can still edit every line yourself.
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
How to set it up
- Add the template to Pinto NotesChoose Use template. Pinto Notes opens and adds the "Recipe box" note to the folder you pick.
- Connect your AIConnect ChatGPT, Claude or Claude Code to Pinto Notes once, and choose Read and Edit so it can fill in the note.
- Give your AI the promptCopy the prompt for your AI and paste it into a chat. Then tell it what happened, in your own words.
- ChatGPTPlus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu, on the web. A few minutes in Developer mode.Connect ChatGPT
- ClaudeOpen Amber Notes in Claude's connector directory, choose Connect to Claude, then Allow.Connect Claude
- Claude CodeOne command in your terminal, or the button in Pinto Notes on a Mac.Connect Claude Code
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