Best for
- Families with larger recipe collections
- Editors organizing multi-chapter cookbooks
- Designers preparing searchable PDFs
Cookbook navigation
Family cookbook table of contents and index
Plan a family cookbook table of contents and recipe index by chapter, contributor, holiday, ingredient, and family tradition.
What the handoff includes
- Chapter order
- Recipe title list
- Contributor and holiday index notes
- Page-number review checklist
Workflow
- Freeze recipe titles and chapter order.
- Create the contents list.
- Choose useful index categories.
- Verify page references after final layout.
Review safeguards
- Do not assign final page numbers before layout is stable.
- Keep recipe titles consistent across contents, pages, and index.
- Review contributor names and family terms carefully.
Service boundary
FamilyRecipeLegacyAI helps organize, transcribe, and format private family recipes. It does not provide nutrition, allergy, food safety, legal, or publishing advice. Families should review every ingredient, measure, name, and story before sharing or printing.
When paid recipe book prep is worth it
Buy the $49 starter after the free brief has a small sample or first 8-12 pages, enough context for OCR review, chapter planning, measurement flags, and one family reviewer. Use the $149 full prep when the family needs a fuller private booklet handoff with source mapping, permissions, proof tracking, contributor notes, archive structure, and private sharing planning. Skip payment if you need scanning, perfect OCR, physical printing, public publishing, file-permission changes, messages sent, nutrition, allergy, food-safety, copyright, legal, publishing, or printer advice, or guaranteed transcription, print quality, delivery, refunds, privacy, approval, sales, or revenue.
When should page numbers be added?
After the layout is close to final, then verify them again before export.
Can a PDF include clickable navigation?
Yes. Request bookmarks or links in the designer handoff and test them after export.