Native iOS action sheet for the new-recipe path — Take Photo · Choose from Library · Cancel. Same OS sheet Flow IV uses for the photo-add arc; here it opens after the cook taps 'Scan a photo' on the import surface. Hearth doesn't reskin platform pickers; voice lives in what comes next.

↳ Choose from Library

The wait. After the cook picks a photo, AI vision does the slow work — reading cursive on grandma's pink paper, transcribing the recipe verbatim. Centered on cream: a small typographic 'page' — five Ochre hairlines at varying widths that draw left-to-right and fade in sequence (each animation-delay offset so the wave never empties), suggesting the AI reading line by line down the page. Italic Lora '— reading the page —' beneath, in the system's own voice. No spinner, no progress bar, no percentage — those are SaaS chrome. No fake-photo graphic either — a paper-warmth placeholder where the cook's actual photo isn't would read as cosplay. Honors prefers-reduced-motion (lines settle into their drawn state, no animation). No tap target — the screen auto-advances to the transcription gate when vision completes. Cancel is the only out.

↳ (auto)

The new screen between photo capture and the structured preview. Hearth's vision pipeline transcribes the source verbatim — no restructuring, no reordering — and the cook reviews the transcription against the original photo before the AI structures it. Two failure modes are separated: transcription errors (handled in this gate), structure errors (handled at the Import preview). Heirloom photos carry a structurally worse OCR baseline; this is where Hearth earns its trust on hard inputs. Dotted-Ochre underlines mark low-confidence words. Continue commits the transcription and lands the cook on the photo-variant Import preview.

↳ Continue

Same structured-edit layout as the main-line V — same top bar ('Cancel · EDITING · Save'), same affordances, same inline-edit grammar. The deltas: the From-URL chip falls away (no URL), and the hero slot renders an empty placeholder (dashed-border cream box with italic-Ochre '— add a photo —' invitation) since the cook hasn't taken a dish photo yet — they only photographed the source card, which Hearth keeps in data but doesn't re-render here. Recipe content matches the transcription gate — Grandma's Corn Ragu, serves 4, no minutes (handwritten cards rarely carry one). Notes block arrives populated with what the AI extracted from the card ('From Grandma Ruth's recipe box.'); the cook adds her voice underneath as she returns over time. The basil line uses the combobox's free-text mode ('small handful'), and an AI-extracted margin note rides under it ('grandma was heavier-handed'). Save commits the recipe to the library; the source photograph stays attached in data forever.

↳ Save

Alternate entrance — the cook is reading a recipe on the web. The ochre halo marks where the share tap happens; the iOS share sheet (next) leads back to the Import preview on the main line.

↳ Safari share button

iOS share sheet over the dimmed article. Hearth halo'd as the destination. The handoff lands the cook back at the Import preview on the main line — same screen, different doorway.

↳ Hearth app

The cook taps the unit on the white-wine line; the closed '[cup ▾]' token is replaced in place by a typographic radio strip — '— tsp · Tbsp · cup · g · other —'. Same vocabulary as Flow VI's measure picker (cups/grams/oz on the eyebrow row): em-dash bookends, middot separators, italic Lora Ochre, current selection (cup) larger and Ink with the chapter-rule hairline beneath. The line wraps so 'dry white wine' flows beneath the strip — the picker gets the full row, the name still reads. The halo lands on 'g' as the cook's next tap (the volume→weight switch is the most common reason a cook reaches for this picker). 'Other' is the escape hatch for free-text long-tail measures (knob, small handful, to taste). The other inline affordances — qty number, name text, title display, notes block, method-step text — work the same way: tap the field, it opens in place. This screen demonstrates the pattern; the others follow.

↳ cup

The cookbook-page moment. Hero photo, Lora title, method set in Roman numerals. The Ingredients eyebrow reads INGREDIENTS · serves 4, with 'serves 4' typeset as an inline-link cross-reference (Lora italic Ochre, 1px ochre underline). The ochre halo marks it as the next tap.

↳ Tap serves 4

The dreamy moment. The page lightens under a cream wash and blurs behind, and the scale strip floats centered in the viewport — '— 2 · 4 · 6 · 8 · 12 —'. The current yield (4) sits currently-selected and larger, carrying the chapter-rule hairline beneath. The ochre halo lands on 8 as the next tap. No card, no border, no pill — the blur is the container. Scale is a lens over a fixed recipe; no Save.

↳ Tap 8

The page quietly rerendered at serves 8 — ingredient quantities and each method step's mise doubled. Step TEXT is unchanged; timing and pan cues are cook judgment, not math. The lens has done its work.

Long-press on a step opens an iOS-style context menu. The page blurs and dims; step iv is plucked above the dim layer with a soft shadow; a quiet two-row menu — Edit · Delete — floats below. This is the discoverability answer: there is no Edit button, long-press is the single entry point.

↳ Edit

Inline edit — step iv is swapped for a live textarea inside the recipe page, '8 minutes' updated to '10–12 minutes.' The page stays put so the cook keeps their bearings; the iOS keyboard is docked at the foot. Save commits the change; Cancel discards.

↳ Save

Same page, quietly updated. Step iv now reads '10–12 minutes.' No celebration, no banner — the book-spine test holds.

The onboarding moment. Notes live as a peer section to Ingredients and Method, placed BETWEEN meta and ingredients — reading order is author's voice → cook's voice → what you need → how to make it. The block is empty, so the section carries only the eyebrow and the typographic invitation '— add a note —' in italic Ochre, mirroring Flow III's 'When you're ready to make these into a book —' grammar. The halo lands on the invitation.

↳ Tap — add a note —

The invitation is replaced in place by an empty textarea, high in the body between meta and ingredients. No field border, hairline underline only — the voice is a cookbook margin, not a form. Cancel (tertiary Ash) · Save (Ochre) floats to the right under the textarea. iOS keyboard docks at the foot; the page auto-scrolls the textarea into the visible band above it. Save is halo'd as the handoff. Apple Notes grammar — the cook types whatever they want, no metadata imposed.

↳ Tap Save

The page quietly updated. The block now shows the cook's first voice — 'Halved the salt — nicer balance.' — as one Lora italic paragraph. No chrome, no date, no per-note affordance. Tap anywhere on the block to reopen the editor; the whole block is halo'd as the handoff. Weeks later, the cook returns to add more.

↳ Tap the note

The same editor surface as compose, now populated with the note's current text. Cook is about to add the memory-note — '— Sam's 30th. Doubled it. Everyone wanted seconds. —' — into the same block, flowing after the first voice. Same hairline underline, same Cancel/Save grammar. Save halo'd as the handoff. The block is one note that grows, not a list of notes.

↳ Tap Save

The close of the sub-flow. The block carries both voices in one continuous Lora italic body — the cook-note and the memory-note running together, no separation, no metadata between them. Apple Notes honest: one block, everything the cook wanted to remember. No halo — the sub-flow is done.

Starting state. Picks up where the Notes sub-flow left off — the global Notes block already carries both voices ('Halved the salt — nicer balance. — Sam's 30th. Doubled it. Everyone wanted seconds. —'). No line-item comments yet. The halo lands on step iv — long-press opens the step menu.

↳ Long-press step iv

The same three-row context menu the Edit sub-flow uses, now with Comment as the first row and halo'd as the tap target. Edit is secondary (rare — it changes the recipe body); Delete tertiary. The Edit sub-flow halos Edit via the same shared component; the halo is the storyboard's overlay, not a UI state. Discoverability through gesture, not chrome.

↳ Tap Comment

A textarea opens beneath step iv, indented under the step's text column so it's visually anchored to what it annotates. Cancel · Save in the now-familiar grammar. Save halo'd. iOS keyboard docked; page auto-scrolls the textarea into the visible band above it. Same editor voice as Notes, smaller register — a pencil in the margin, not a form field.

↳ Tap Save

Step iv now carries an inline comment — '10–12 minutes — thickens better.' — in Lora italic Ash, indented under the step text. No chrome, no date, no ceremony. The cook moves on to the ingredients: the halo lands on the butter line, where the same long-press gesture repeats at ingredient scope.

↳ Long-press butter

Same compose surface, this time beneath the butter line. Menu screen skipped — the long-press menu earlier in this sub-flow is the same menu for ingredients, and the binder doesn't need to teach it twice. Save halo'd.

↳ Tap Save

The close of the sub-flow. Global note at the top carries both voices. Step iv carries its own. The butter line carries a comment beneath it — 'Cultured if I have it.' Nothing destroyed — the recipe body still reads as it was imported. What's on the page now is the personalization layer: the comments are what make a recipe that came from somewhere else into hers. This is the content the printed book will carry beyond the bare recipe — the proof-of-authorship that a library of saved URLs can't give you.

The page-level menu — Apple Music's grammar at the recipe scope. Tap the ⋯ in the right nav and a small iOS-vibrancy popover drops from the trigger: View original ↗ (opens the source URL when one exists), Add to collection (stubbed; collections land later), Remove from library (vermillion, soft-delete). Unlike Flow I's long-press menu — a context menu on a specific step with a plucked-and-blurred backdrop — this is the page menu, so the backdrop only dims and the card anchors at the trigger.

The sub-flow landing. Cream TOC — four tappable rows (Title / Subtitle / Layout / Recipes), each showing the current value in Lora italic over a small-caps label. No foot CTA — back chevron returns to Preview; edits commit as they happen.

↳ Tap Title

Single-field editor. The value is rendered in the same Lora face it'll wear on the cover so the user judges it in voice, not as a form field. Character count in Oat italic; no iOS keyboard chrome — the cookbook voice doesn't shout.

↳ Done

Sibling of Title. Lora italic at 20px matches how the subtitle reads on the cover. Same Done mechanic.

↳ Done

The structural picker — cover layout (Plate / Full-bleed), then three rows of page layouts organised by photo count (1 / 2 / 3+). Same screen as main-line V, available here for the cook to revisit after seeing the book in Preview. Copy lead: 'Layout. The shape of the book.' The selected thumb carries the ochre hairline ring.

↳ Done

The in-book recipe list — only the 24 currently in the book, not the whole library. A T2-style 'Add from library →' row at the top. Each row carries a drag handle on the right; one row reveals the Alert-Rust 'Remove' action to teach the long-press mechanic. Shares the list primitive with IV.

↳ Back

Later — the cook navigates back to the library. Same chrome as Flow III · I: header, options list, waterfall. The Cookbooks row is the way back into the in-progress book. No state-shifted foot, no promotional moment — the book is just one of the destinations the library lists.

↳ Tap Cookbooks

The book absorbed the edit. The corn-ragu page auto-promoted from 1-photo-a to 2-photos-b — a single hero became a bookend rhythm (photo · text · photo). Above the spread, an italic-Ochre aside earns one moment — '— Layout adapted to your photos. —' — then disappears on the next tap.

↳ Tap the page to edit

The shared edit surface (BookEdit) pointed at the corn-ragu page. Layout picker shows all four count rows with 2-photos-b active; photos section carries the recipe's three real photos with Apple-grammar numbered circles. The halo lands on the second photo — the cook's process shot — to swap which image sits in the hero well.

↳ The second photo

The close of the sub-flow. The process shot is now the top photo in the 2-photos-b layout; the original Mia Aquilina hero sits in the bottom well. No aside, no halo — the book simply is. Cook can keep going (Settings, Review, send to Hearth Press) or close the app and come back later.