Eliza
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Chores
LessonsEliza’s day
Meals
Dinner planned, and on the wall by five.
A weekly meal plan, a recipe box and one shared shopping list, in the same app as the calendar and the chores. Tonight’s dinner is on the kitchen wall, with the next few days under it.
Invite-only while it is in beta. Sign up with your invite code.
Three tabs under Meals: This week, Shopping list and Recipes. The week fills the list, and the recipe box fills the week.
Sunday night, ten minutes.
From an empty week to a shopping list, in the order you would do it.
Tap an empty slot.
Meals → This week
Each day has Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Snack. Tap Add a meal under the one you want. On a phone each day is a card, with today marked.
Pick a recipe, or type a quick meal.
The slot’s sheet
The sheet says it plainly: pick a family recipe or type a quick meal. Choose from Family recipes (with a search once you have more than a handful), or type “Leftovers” or “Pizza night” and tap Add.
Two meals in one slot is fine: the button becomes Add another.
Make the shopping list.
Meals → This week → Ready to shop?
At the foot of the week, Make the shopping list turns the week’s recipes into one list, grouped by aisle. The same thing is on the list itself as Add this week’s meals.
Amounts of the same thing are put together, so two recipes that each need milk make one line. Running it again replaces that week’s unticked lines instead of doubling them.
Tonight’s dinner is on the wall.
The kitchen wall and Today
The wall shows tonight’s dinner with the next few days under it, and a parent’s Today shows it too. A meal you plan on your phone shows on the wall within a minute.
On the wall’s Meals tab, tap a meal and its recipe opens, to read while you cook.
Tonight’s dinner
Sheet pan chicken fajitas
- Lentil soup
- Homemade pizza
- Chili
Tonight’s dinner on the wall, with the next few days under it.
Bring in the recipes you already cook.
Open Meals → Recipes → Bring in a recipe. Six ways in, and what each one needs.
| Source | How it comes in | Needs AI? | Opens in Check and save? |
|---|---|---|---|
| A recipe website | Paste the link. Doorpost opens just that one page and reads the recipe the site publishes. The site’s picture is linked, not copied. | Needs AI: No, when the page carries standard recipe data | Opens in Check and save: Yes |
| A Pinterest pin | Doorpost follows the pin to the website it links to and reads the recipe there. A pin with no website behind it cannot be read. | Needs AI: The same as a website | Opens in Check and save: Yes |
| A Paprika or Copy Me That export | Export from the other app and choose the file. Doorpost never asks for another app’s password and never signs in to it for you. | Needs AI: No, read in your browser | Opens in Check and save: No. The whole box comes in at once |
| A Plan to Eat export | Its recipe file comes in the same way, and a second import updates what is there instead of adding copies. | Needs AI: No, read in your browser | Opens in Check and save: No. The whole box comes in at once |
| Pasted text | A caption, a message or a blog post. AI picks out the ingredients and steps. Children’s names are replaced before it is sent. | Needs AI: Only when AI is on | Opens in Check and save: Yes |
| A photo of a recipe card | A recipe card, a cookbook page or a screenshot. | Needs AI: AI on, and Let AI use the children’s details in Settings → Privacy | Opens in Check and save: Yes |
You see it before it is saved.
A link, pasted text or a photo opens in Check and save: the title, how many it serves, the times, the ingredients and the steps, and where it came from. Nothing is saved until you tap Save to recipes.
If the page does not share its recipe in a form Doorpost can read, you can Save just the link, or paste the ingredients and steps instead.
Grandma’s card, read by AI, checked by you.
Under Paste text or a photo, tap Take or choose a photo. These two use AI, so they work only when AI is on, and a photo also needs the parent switch Let AI use the children’s details in Settings → Privacy.
A recipe read by AI says so at the top: Read by AI. Check the amounts against the original before you cook.
A whole recipe box at once
Settings → Import recipes takes the export from Paprika, Copy Me That or Plan to Eat. It is read in your browser, without AI. Skip recipes already in Doorpost is on, so a second import does not make copies. A whole box comes in at once rather than one recipe at a time through Check and save.
One list, grouped by aisle.
The family’s list, on every parent’s phone. Type “2 lb apples” and it goes under Produce.
The aisles
- Produce
- Meat & seafood
- Dairy & eggs
- Bakery
- Pantry
- Spices & baking
- Frozen
- Drinks
- Household
- Other
- In the store
- Tap a line and it moves to In the cart. Clear empties the cart when you are home.
- From one recipe
- Open a recipe and tap Add ingredients to the shopping list, or tick only the ones you are out of.
- From a child
- On the wall a child taps Ask, then Add to the grocery list. When a parent says yes, it lands on the list marked as a kid request.
- Taking it with you
- Copy it as text, share it, print it or save it as a PDF from the list’s menu.
Cook mode, one step at a time.
Open a recipe and tap Cook mode. The steps come one at a time with Next step and Finished, and on a device that allows it the screen stays on while you cook.
Everyone sees dinner. Parents plan it.
A parent
- Plans the week, keeps the recipe box and edits the list.
- Answers a child who asks to add something.
- Brings recipes in, and decides whether AI may read a photo of one.
A child
- Tonight’s dinner and the week on the family wall.
- Asks to add to the grocery list.
- Adds grocery items on the wall directly, unless a parent turns that off.
Not hereCannot plan meals or change recipes.
The wall
- Dinner tonight, with the next few days.
- A Meals tab for the week; tap a meal for its recipe.
Not hereMeals are not planned on the wall.
A sitter
- The child’s care sheet, which can hold meal notes.
Not hereDoes not see the meal plan, recipes or the list in their view.
Where each switch is.
| Setting | Where it is | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Meals | Settings → Meals | How meals look on the calendar, the wall and the week: Meal colours by meal, one colour, by course or by cuisine. |
| Import recipes | Settings → Meals | A Paprika, Copy Me That or Plan to Eat export, read in your browser. Skip recipes already in Doorpost starts on. |
| Let AI use the children’s details | Settings → Privacy | Off by default. Needed, with AI on, to read a photo of a recipe. |
| Grocery items | Settings → Customize the wall → What kids can add from the wall | On by default. When off, adding to the list on the wall needs a parent’s PIN. |
| Calendar feeds | Settings → Calendars | Bring a Plan to Eat meal plan in by its calendar link. Its meals show on the week and the wall. |
What happens if…
The nights that do not go to plan.
- Nothing is planned tonight.
The wall says so plainly: No dinner planned. Plan meals in the Doorpost app on your phone.
- A website does not share its recipe.
Doorpost tells you, and offers Save just the link or pasting the recipe instead. With AI on, it can also read the page’s text.
- AI is off.
Links and export files still work. Pasted text and photos say that reading them needs AI help, which is off, and ask you to type the recipe in.
- You bring in a recipe you already have.
Check and save says it is already in your recipes, and that saving adds a second copy. Export files skip it by default.
- You delete a recipe that is on the plan.
The day keeps its meal. Only the recipe goes from the box.
- The photo is too big.
Doorpost shrinks it on your phone first. If it is still too large, it asks for a closer crop of just the recipe.
- A Pinterest pin has no website behind it.
Doorpost asks you to open the pin, tap through to the site and share that page instead.
Your recipes stay with your family. Doorpost opens only the one page you link, and never asks for another app’s password.
Nourish, coming later, adds a link to your grocer. Doorpost families hear about it first.
Questions about meals.
Do I need another app to plan meals?
No. The week, the recipe box and the shopping list are all in Doorpost. If you already plan in Plan to Eat, its meals can come in too.
Does Doorpost plan the week for me with AI?
No. You pick the meals. AI is only used to read a pasted recipe or a photo of one, and only when AI is on.
Is every recipe checked before it is saved?
A link, pasted text or a photo opens in Check and save, and nothing is saved until you save it. An export file from Paprika, Copy Me That or Plan to Eat comes in all at once, skipping recipes you already have.
Can the children add to the shopping list?
Yes. From the wall a child can ask to add something, and it lands on the list when a parent says yes. A parent can also let children add grocery items on the wall directly.
Can I plan dinner on the wall?
No. Meals are planned in the app on a phone. They show on the wall within a minute.
Who can see our recipes?
Your family. Recipes stay private to your family.
Plan three dinners tonight and see them on the wall tomorrow.
Pricing TBD. Free while Doorpost is in beta. It is invite-only: sign up with your invite code.