Snip Tip: Using PageSnip at FoodNetwork.com
Gathering cooking show recipes at the Food Network
Modern television is a window to the world. It takes our eyes, our hearts, and yes, even our stomachs on a fantastic journey. This culinary trip starts in our own kitchens, and ends at the far corner tables of the earth.
Our tour guides seem almost magical and some of them are legends in their own right. Names like Emeril, Wolfgang Puck, Rachael Ray, Bobby Flay, Paula Deen and others too numerous to mention.
Despite the diverse range of foods and cultures served, the universal message these television cooking shows deliver is clear. Try it. Experience it. Eat it!
Most people never get the opportunity to travel the globe, but websites like foodnetwork.com provide the recipes for these great dishes so we can try them in our own kitchens.
PageSnip lets you do much more than print these recipes and put them in a notebook. You can file them in the PageSnip Manager, cross reference them with SnipLists and create your own fully searchable electronic cookbook in minutes.
Unlike proprietary cookbook software that only works with certain websites, you can use PageSnip wherever you find a recipe that appeals to you. After you snip it, you can create a PDF from it and E-Mail it to a friend with the click of a button.
PageSnip even remembers the exact location where you snipped your recipe. This makes it easy to come back and search for another by your favorite chef.
This Snip Tip will show you how to snip a recipe from foodnetwork.com without any advertising, banners or page navigation with just a couple of clicks.
NOTE: Even though it may take you a few minutes to go through this short tutorial, the actual process of snipping a recipe on the Food Network website should take you less than 10 seconds.
Getting Started
After you locate your recipe on the Food Network website, it is obvious that you really don’t want to print or snip the entire page. Like most websites, it has a banner, navigation and advertising as shown in the screen shot below.
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Fortunately the Food Network is a great website to use with PageSnip! All of the recipes have ”PRINT FULL PAGE” link that displays the recipe on a page without other content.
Click this link to prepare the recipe for use with PageSnip.
The print version of the recipe looks like the screen shot below.
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Note: The Food Network website gets a big thumbs up for having true printer friendly pages. There is nothing on the page that needs to be removed and it does not automatically trigger your browser to print the page. Well done Food Network!
Since no additional processing is needed, all you need to do to snip this page is right-click anywhere on the recipe and select the “PageSnip - Add Page” option from your browser context menu.
After the snip has been gathered, the PageSnip Assistant opens automatically and your snip is displayed as shown here.
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Note: In the snip above, it states that this recipe will be available for a limited time only. This is common practice on many recipe websites. It us another great reason to use PageSnip to file a copy so you can use it anytime you want it!
Filing your snip in the PageSnip Manager
After snipping your recipe from the Food Network website, you can file it in the PageSnip Manager (Professional Edition). Filing the snip allows you to create your own personal electronic cookbook for easy reference.
PageSnip automatically gathers information about where and when the snip was taken. This makes it possible for you to return to the web page where it came from at any time. On large websites like the Food Network this makes it easy to snip more recipes from the same chef.
Another powerful feature is the ability to associate a snip with one or more groups of related snips using what is known as “SnipLists”. This lets you quickly find snips by using their SnipList association.
You can create as many different SnipLists as you need. A single snip can then be associated with any number of SnipLists selections. The actual snip content is not duplicated.
For filing recipes, this means that you can have SnipLists by the type of food, the chef and any others that make it easy to find similar recipes.
During the process of filing a snip, PageSnip extracts all of the text from the snip HTML content. It indexes that text along with the meta data (page title, description and tags/keywords) that you have entered. This makes your electronic cookbook fully searchable.
You can see an example of the information that gets filed with your snip in the screenshot below.
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Where do you go from here?
This Snip Tip does not cover all the details of filing and retrieving the snip in the PageSnip Manager. It doesn’t show all the other things you can do in PageSnip such as create a PDF or add SnipNotes. For detailed information about these things, see our tutorials (such as this one on Building your own WordPress knowledge base), or view the PageSnip Online help.
You can view the complete PageSnip documentation online at: http://www.pagesnip.com/onlinehelp/index.html
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