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New Instacart Web Integration
We are very excited to share our new integration with Instacart!
Users on the web version of Cronometer will now see an 'Order via Instacart' button on their Custom Meals and Recipes. Clicking on the button will open the Instacart website and automatically import the ingredients of your Meal or Recipe so you don't have to search for them. Check out our YouTube video to learn how to utilize this integration.
Happy tracking!
Re: Making notes searchable
A search function for the Diary (food entries, notes, etc.) is probably my top requested feature.
Having said that:
Dare I hope to be able to print them? Often times, I have to manually search back through them to see when I started an activity or change in foods, etc..
You are able to export your notes: More -> Account Data -> Export -> Export Notes
The CSV format is convenient enough for printing. The only thing not so convenient is that you have to individually export the various categories (food entries, notes, etc.) into separate CSV files.
If I have some spare time, I'm going to program a utility which assembles the individual CSV exports into a single convenient format.
Water tracking 2.0
Hey everyone,
We're thrilled to unveil our latest upgrade to the Water Tracking feature! At Cronometer, we've been listening closely to your feedback, and we're excited to introduce improvements that will make staying hydrated easier and more convenient than ever before. Be sure to check it out at beta.cronometer.com - soon to be released on mobile!
Here's a sneak peek at some of the key highlights of this latest release:
Dedicated Water Widget: Say goodbye to cumbersome tracking methods! Our new Water Widget operates independently from food and beverage entries, making tracking your water intake as simple as tapping a button. Watch your hydration levels rise with intuitive animations for added satisfaction.
Improved User Experience: We've fine-tuned the user experience by storing timestamps for water entries, providing greater flexibility and accuracy in tracking your intake. Customize serving sizes and container sizes to suit your preferences for a personalized experience.
Easy Settings Management: Take control of your hydration journey with our settings menu, where you can adjust units, goals, and reminder preferences with ease. Schedule personalized reminder times to stay on track without feeling overwhelmed by unnecessary notifications.
We're incredibly excited about the potential of this enhanced water tracking feature, and we can't wait for you to explore it firsthand. Your feedback is invaluable in helping us refine and improve our tools, so please don't hesitate to share your thoughts and suggestions with us.
Here's to a happier, healthier, and more hydrated you!
Cronometer team
Re: Search diary entries for food
I am also a software developer and can't confirm, that it is a difficult feature (in general) :-)
Do you mean you don't think a recipe importer is a difficult feature to implement? Or were you referring to another feature (Search?), since you wrote below,
For me personally, this features is super important, to make sense of all of my data, I am collecting through a lot of third party services and gadgets.
What is "this features"[sic] ?
To clarify, what I'm saying is:
I'm a beta tester. I've spent time carefully reporting several bugs in the Beta forum, with detailed screencasts or reproduction stemps. Nobody from the Cronometer team has replied to me so far. I feel I've been wasting my time.
Instead, team seems focused on the Recipe Importer feature. I think a recipe importer is a complex feature, because recipes don't always come in a standard format, ingredients can be phrased in a myriad of ways, quantities can be expressed in various units etc. Parsing recipes correctly requires Natural-Language Understanding. This is not easy. When I worked on AMP at Google, we advocated for publishers (I worked with AllRecipes.com in particular) to use the Schema.org Recipe type, but as you can imagine, not all recipes published online are in that format.
My suspicion above is proven right by the team abandoning the recipe importer feature in the latest build a few days ago.
I personally think the recipe importer requires a lot of development and testing effort, but offers little use to few customers rarely, compared to far simpler bugs to fix that affect everyone all the time.
Making notes searchable
Since I've been using Cronometer for many years, there are times I want to go back to certain phases in my life where I was eating one way or another and to track my health changes during those times. In order to do that it would be helpful if I could do a search of keywords in my notes. Is there any way to make that possible? Thank you.
Re: Caffeine countdown & Food group servings
Hi @MoonlitMuse. Sorry for delay. Sure! First: One needs to be a gold member to get timestamps (you are). Second, export data as .csv. Third, import the csv into Pandas in python.
The resulting "dataframe" needs the right field names and a datetime index. I use automated tools. That gets put into the function below, which returns a table estimating the caffeine and alcohol levels at 10pm. Some notes:
1. Metabolism of caffeine especially can vary a LOT. This has a 6 hour half life, which is middle of the road. I wouldn't value the absolute answer, but it is comparable day to day.
2. Some foods in the database (e.g. some chocolate) don't have caffeine.
3. It's built on a half life (** = exponential in python)
4. It includes the time it takes for caffeine (~1 hour) and alcohol (~½ hour) to get in the blood stream.
def Anaylze_Servings(df):
df2 = df.loc[df['Energy (kcal)']>10] results = [] # Caffeine and alcohol for date in df.index.levels[0]: day = df.loc[date] temp = day.loc[day['Caffeine (mg)'] > 0] times = temp.index.get_level_values(level=0) timeofday = times.hour+times.minute/60 deltas = 22-timeofday+1 #1 hour for metabolism / peak c = (temp['Caffeine (mg)']*(1/2)**(deltas/6)).sum() ic(temp['Caffeine (mg)']*(1/2)**(deltas/6)) temp = day.loc[day['Alcohol (g)'] > 0] times = temp.index.get_level_values(level=0) timeofday = times.hour+times.minute/60 deltas = 22-timeofday+.5 #.5 hour for metabolism / peak a = (temp['Alcohol (g)']*(1/2)**(deltas/4.5)).sum() results.append({'Date':date, 'Caffeine @ 2200': round(c,1), 'Alcohol @ 2200': round(a,1)}) results = pd.DataFrame(results) results['Date'] = pd.to_datetime(results['Date']) results.set_index('Date',inplace=True) return results
Re: Entered supplement not showing up on reports
Excellent! You nailed it, had to click on the Include Supplements when in the report area. Thanks :)
Bill
Re: How to delete incorrect weight entry?
Hi agingcyclist,
To delete an entry in your diary on the website, you can click on it then hit the delete key, or use the menu in the top right corner of the diary and select 'delete selected items.'
On the mobile app, swipe the entry to the left and tap on the delete icon.
Best,
Re: Weird symptoms after 2 years of being vegan
Since these types of symptoms also happen to people who are NOT vegan, I am not so sure that being vegan has anything to do with it.