Organized Gourmet 1.3, by Ex-Spectator Software allows a user to manage his recipes. The main screen presents an Items-pane, with recipes, a Lists-pane with recipe categories and a calendar. The Items-pane has a standard tabular view. The column fields in this table are: recipe title, cooking time, difficulty, rating and cooking dates. By clicking on a column header the user can set the sort field and sort direction.

The innovative part of this application is the calendar and the cooking dates. By dragging a recipe from the Items-pane onto a date, the cooking-date and thus the menu for that date is set. By clicking on a date (just a day or the entire week) the user sees what he plans to eat in that period. These date-ranges work as smart lists. Subsequently the application can create a shopping list on the menu period.

A few things must be noted about this Client:

• Calendar - the calendar is interesting. I cal it a pre-defined hand-picked list. There are however as many lists as there are days in a year. The calendar is show at the bottom of the Lists-pane It is basically a planning function. A user can thus create a menu for a day or week based on recipes in his library. And through the Calendar View a user can see the menu of the month. Adn this calendar can be exported to iCal;
• Grocery List - by indicating a date range in the, the Client creates a shopping list. This shopping list can merge ingredients if requested. This is like adding MicroContent Items (at least partly);
• Send to iCal - this function allows a user to send planned recipes to iCal. It is a way to (partially) export Recipes to another place. One can also see at as a way to create a MicroWeb on the computer;

Supported MicroContent Type(s): Recipes •
Rating: 31 out of 87 points (checklist version 1.3). • Developer: Ex-Spectator Software • Version: 1.3 •

Checklist

• MicroContent (6/10) - to what degree does the client support MicroContent Items?
  
  • Structure - YES, a recipe. The recipe structure is relatively simple, with a title, prep and cook times, servings, image, difficulty rating, ingredient list and directions.
  • Multiplicity - NO;
  • Flexibility - NO;
  • MicroWeb - YES, one can add images;
  • Merged - NO;
  • Picklist Fields - YES for units and ingredient names;
  • Title - YES;
  • Description - YES, called directions
  • Tags - NO;
  • Rating - YES;
  
  
• Interface (4/10) - does the client have the characteristic layout?
  
  • View-pane - NO, which is unusual;
  • View-pane Styles - NO, not relevant;
  • View Window - YES;
  • Items-pane - YES;
  • Items-pane Views - NO, the client has a standard tabular view and a calendar view window for (planned) recipes in the calendar List;
  • Items-pane Sorting - YES;
  • Items-pane Fields - NO;
  • Lists-pane - YES, they are called groups
  • Browser-pane -NO;
  • Pane layout change - NO;
  
  
• Item functions (4/9) - functions for managing individual Items.
  
  • View - YES, in a separate window;
  • Create - YES;
  • Edit - YES;
  • Mark - NO;
  • Search - NO;
  • Persistence - NO;
  • Access Control - NO;
  • Delete - YES;
  • Downloading - NO;
  
  
• List functions (7/16)
  
  • Local Lists - YES, all Lists are local;
  • Connected Lists - NO;
  • Shared Lists - NO;
  • Remote Lists - NO;
  • Handpicked Lists - YES and it has pre-defined hand-picked lists on date;
  • Smart Lists - NO;
  • Recommendation Lists - NO;
  • List Metadata - NO;
  • Directory - NO;
  • Add - YES;
  • Edit - YES;
  • Show - NO;
  • Backup/revert - YES;
  • Refresh - NO;
  • Remove - YES;
  • Delete - YES;
  
  
• Group functions (0/9)
  
  • Unlimited Depth - NO;
  • Local Groups - NO;
  • Connected Groups - NO;
  • Shared Groups - NO;
  • Remote Groups - NO;
  • Directory Groups - NO;
  • Add - NO;
  • Edit - NO;
  • Delete - YES;
  
  
• Import (1/6) - does the client allow for importing Items?
  
  • Classic - NO;
  • Standard - NO;
  • Proprietary - YES, one can enter a recipe in text format, which the Client tries to parse;
  • Application - NO;
  • Bookmarklet - NO;
  • Drag&drop - No;
  
  
• Export (3/13) - does the client allow for exporting Items?
  
  • Classic - NO;
  • Standard - NO;
  • Proprietary - YES, I assume the .Mac synchronisation option uses a proprietary file format;
  • HTML - NO;
  • Print - NO;
  • Feed - NO;
  • Local - NO;
  • Connected - NO;
  • Remote: .Mac - YES, called synchronisation;
  • Remote: FTP - NO;
  • Remote: RPC - NO;
  • Drag&drop - NO;
  • Application - YES, one can send planned recipes to iCal;
  
  
• MacOSX (6/14) - is the client a good MacOSX application?
  
  • Look&Feel - YES;
  • Menu - YES;
  • Toolbar - YES;
  • Alt-click - YES;
  • Ctrl-click - YES;
  • Drag&drop - YES, for adding to Lists;
  • Services - NO;
  • Dock - NO;
  • Spotlight - NO;
  • Dashboard - NO;
  • AppleScript - NO;
  • Framework - NO;
  • Menu-bar Item - NO;
  • Plug-ins - NO;
  
  

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