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A recipe page in Handed Down, the empty card frame waiting for a scan above a brass plate naming the cook.

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Handed Down

The handwritten card is the thing, not the text typed off it.

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The screen

the card's own material, at page scale

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Handed Down

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The brief

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A family recipe archive where the credit goes to the person the recipe came from. The scan of the handwritten card is treated as the artefact; the typed version exists so it can be searched, not so it can replace it.

Families keep a vault. Nothing is public unless somebody chooses to put it on the shelf, and everything on the shelf has been read by a human first.

Attached to it is the shopping list, which is the part that gets used daily. It works with no signal, because the place you need a shopping list is reliably the one place with no bars. Two phones can both write to it mid-shop without either erasing the other, every change carries its own clock so ordering survives a phone whose clock is wrong, and a list is finished rather than deleted — the sheet comes off the clip and gets kept.

The plates

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A recipe page in Handed Down, the empty card frame waiting for a scan above a brass plate naming the cook.
01 · A recipe page in Handed Down
A family vault in Handed Down, private, with its recipes filed under the cook they came from.
02 · A family vault in Handed Down

The log

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A vault is handed to the kitchen rather than to one person at a time. One invitation brings a whole household in.

A shop can be finished, and the finished ones are kept. Last Christmas's list is the best possible start for this one.

First version, built from the spec, with the pantry-dresser look laid over it.