Everyday, we are becoming more and more intimate with our mobile devices. We use them to learn, to teach, to flirt and a million other things that previously didn’t require a wifi connection. There seems to be no slice of our daily lives that cannot be improved by technology. The question on whether that is always for the better rages on, but let’s take a look at an arena of the home where new technology is beginning it’s attempt to make our lives easier: the Kitchen.

Websites devoted to storing and organizing recipes are nothing new. Popular recipe site Epicurious.com dates back to 1996 when the internet was essential primordial ooze. While these seemingly infinite databases of recipes are useful and thorough, they lack the magic of a dog-eared, annotated copy of Joy of Cooking that has been passed down for generations. Your grandmothers notes are surely worth more than the comments left by user MuffinQueen21 (no disrespect). Evernote, popular organization/productivity app owned by LinkedIn, has developed a food-focused version that aims to bridge that gap and help make sense of the voluminous recipe databases online.

Evernote Food does several things. Firstly, its a tool for searching and storing recipes from different sources online. It combines the most popular sites with more niche offerings, allowing the user to search a wide range of cooking styles based on various criteria. You can search specific dishes or run searches based on what ingredients you have handy. You can then clip and save your favorites and create your own cookbook. If the recipe you want is not on a website they’ve included, you can use their Web Clipper extension in your internet browser to send recipes to your collection.

Now this app already sounds interesting and useful, but what good is doing anything these days if you aren’t sharing it online? Evernote Food has an answer. You can save your creations in ‘My Meals’. Under this tab, you can photograph, caption and tag your meals for your own records or to share with friends and family. There is also a tab for nearby restaurants if you aren’t interested in cooking yourself. You can search your favorite cuisines or by geography (powered by Foursquare) and see the highest rated eateries available. Again, you can clip these selections and save them for later.

Evernote Food is a just one example of how developers are attempting to make our culinary lives easier. Will an app ever replace the handwritten recipe from a relative? Maybe not. However, if these kinds of apps make home cooking more accessible to a younger generation, then all the power to them.

Evernote Food is available in the App Store on Apple devices and in the Play Store on Android.