Personal productivity, cooking
How to Make Recipes Easier to Follow Using Mermaid Text (Really)
I’ll demonstrate using a delicious lasagne recipe
You know what I hate most about following recipes? The important information is buried in blocks of text, so it’s easy to overlook. Who hasn’t missed a step and ruined what would have been great food?
It doesn’t matter if the text blocks are numbered, or if they have pretty pictures of ingredients arranged around them. That’s just distracting.
What I want to know is:
- What do I use?
- When do I use it?
- What sequence of actions do I follow?
All that should be up front and central so that I can concentrate on bringing the delicious.
Extracting information from blocks of text isn’t a new problem. System designers have been grappling with it since the days of mainframes. One tool they used to understand what was going on was a sequence diagram.
Keep calm. You don’t need to be a system designer to use them. Here’s an example.
