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Work out of a Kitchen

A Kitchen is your shelf of loose parts: Ingredients and Recipes that belong to no one CookBook, kept in a folder so you can pull them into any project. A Kitchen is a .ktn file, and the folder it sits in is the workspace: everything beside it is in the Kitchen.

Create or open one

On the opening screen, click New Kitchen… (choose where to save the .ktn) or Open Kitchen…. From the command line: nfty new kitchen Studio/Studio.ktn --name Studio.

What it gives you

The shelf along the bottom of the opening screen lists the folder's contents: CookBooks first, then loose Recipes and Ingredients. Click a card to open it; the chevrons page through by kind; close leaves the Kitchen.

The Kitchen shelf, listing the CookBooks in the folder The Kitchen shelf, listing the CookBooks in the folder

With a Kitchen open:

  • loose Recipes and Ingredients you create from the opening screen are saved into it, instead of asking each time;
  • the Ingredient Editor's REFERENCES tab lists its loose Ingredients under FROM THE KITCHEN, to line art up against;
  • nfty inspect Studio.ktn lists what it holds.

Pull a part into a CookBook

  1. Open the CookBook and unlock editing.
  2. To add a layer, select the Recipe it should join. To add a Recipe, select the book.
  3. Press Import in the toolbar and pick the .igt or .rcp from the Kitchen folder.

A Recipe joins with a weight equal to the average of the Recipes already in the book. An Ingredient goes into the selected Recipe; with only the book selected, nfty says so rather than guessing.

The file is copied in. Editing the layer inside the book does not change the loose file, so the same hat can be guaranteed in one project and a chase item in another.

Nothing to keep in sync

Membership is found by looking at the folder, never recorded. Drop a .cbk in with your file manager and it appears; move one out and it is gone.