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Re: Search diary entries for food
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LOL, with over 4000 views this feature request must (this site doesn’t rank feature requests - another major deficiency) be the most wanted feature for the past 3 years.
Currently my options to input a meal I know I had in the last few months are…
1. Scroll through each day on my phone until I spot the meal, 90pages for 3 months, awesome, just wait a minute everyone while Dad scrolls through his phone at dinner for the next 20 minutes.
2. Leave the dinner table, go to the study, turn on the PC, login, export a csv, search the csv - yeah right, as if!
3. Make a recipe for every meal I ever eat. Not practical as this list gets so long I can’t use it anymore. End up with too many variations, and searching this list, you don’t know if you are finding the one that you had last month.
4. Skip entering and go watch TV with the family, leads to giving up logging.
What do I use instead, nothing because Cronometer is the best app I have tried.
The real shame is that Cronometer is like the best mobile/cell phone before the iPhone came out. I don’t think they understand that if they keep simplifying the data entry component they will get to a tipping point where A LOT more users would subscribe.
My vision is to point the camera at the plate and AI inputs the entire meal for you. This could start as recognising a previous entry that looks the same for example, then lead to recognising individual components and estimating portion sizes.
I’d say Cronometer you can have my idea, but they can’t do a text search so I’m sure it will instead show up in another app at some point and boom, end of the company like Blackberry etc.
But for now I would settle for a diary search function that a high school student could write. Actually let’s be real, a smart primary school student could write.
I can’t fathom this honestly, name one software with something called “diary” in it that you can’t search?
Answer: Cronometer.
It is such a shame, opportunities like this wasted.
Re: What integration would you like to see next?
Zepp/Amazfit device connectivity, because it's what I use. (They're more affordable, so in theory it's accessible to a wider range of people.) I currently use the Google Fit work around, but it's kind of a PITA getting everything to sync correctly, taking more micromanaging than I'd like. (It's inefficient.)
Re: Search diary entries for food
Been using Cronometer gold for about a year and a half now. I would like to add my vote to PLEASE PRIORITIZE this new feature being added. We need to be able to search our diary entries to be able to consistently see how we're logging our food. Logging consistently is even MORE important than accuracy when it comes to hitting your aesthetic and fitness goals. Right now, I have to manually scroll through individual days, often looking through several weeks of entries to find the way I logged a certain restaurant or recipe. That shouldn't be the case. Please complete this in 2023!
Re: Search diary entries for food
It's been another two years, and from what I can tell this feature still hasn't been added so I'll echo my request for it to be added.
I've been having to use Google Calendar as well, so I could easily make a list of how many times I actually ate a specific food.
Re: Search diary entries for food
Any news on this feature?
As someone who has been using Cronometer quite a long time now I'm getting a bit fed up of the fact that basic features like this aren't getting implemented ahead of things like a relatively pointless UI overhaul which didn't really make it much better (and actually made some things worse, such as much less efficient use of screen space!).
As people have pointed out in this thread, this isn't a super complex feature to implement, in fact the most basic version of it has been described here by a programmer as a "1 pot of coffee project"! We're not asking for anything huge here, just something like a search box and a basic search output where we can click on an item and get taken to that diary entry (in fact I wouldn't even really mind if I couldn't click on items as long as it tells me what the date was so I can easily find it myself!).
Please Cronometer, listen to your long term users!
Re: Search diary entries for food
Same, biggest missing feature in this project IMO.
Does affect my willingness to keep using the product as I get tired of entering items again that I know are in the diary but don’t want to spend 10minutes scrolling through a month or two to find them.
Honestly I don’t understand why this has not been implemented?
Re: Apple Health Timestamp
About a week after posting this, I went ahead and bought the paid subscription to see if that solved the timestamp issue. Although the product information said that Gold added the feature of "timestamps", I interpreted that as being able to change the timestamps, not that they were included at all.
As it turns out, Gold does indeed provide timestamps, and the ability to edit them, AND syncing with Apple Health. Issues resolved.
Adding food in advance and marking as eaten later?
Hi I sometimes like to add food I plan to eat, yet would like to mark eaten after I actually eat it incase my meal didn't go in as planned. Anyone run into this?
Entering Restaurant Data?
Is there a quick way to import a nutritional menu from a restaurant chain (such as this Earl's menu: https://storage.googleapis.com/earls-ws-prod/filer_public/2023/10/18/earls_nutrition_guide_p10_2023_accessible.pdf), or Hello Fresh meals (which are available on the site, but change weekly)? The recipe import has a URL option but it doesn't work for multiple items like these, and entering each meal individually is quite a task.
And if we add these as "custom foods" do they eventually make it into the permanent database? I see a number of Hello Fresh meals in there, but it doesn't give the message asking if I want a notification when it's entered like when you scan a new barcode.