Add ability to Re-order Repeat Items
I'd like the ability to re-order the repeat items that are currently enabled.
Use case: I have a lengthy list of daily repeated entries across multiple meals: common breakfast items, common snack items, common supplements. I'd like to be able to re-order them for logical groupings - as is, I'm unsure how Cronometer orders them - randomly? By date added?
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I'd love to see this feature added as well. It's minor, since I can reorder them once they've been logged, but I'd like to be able to reorder them in the repeat list, and for that order to hold true when they get logged into their respective meals. Perhaps in the repeat items setting page, having the ability to look at the groups (breakfast, lunch, etc.), and reorder the items there, such that the group will get logged as it appears in that repeat items settings group would be best.
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I'm not sure I understand you correctly but this is what I do. I create Custom Meals for all my repeated items (My Complete list of Supplements all set to 0 which I have hit Log to enter. They go into a category in my dashboard called "Wake Up." They all get thrown in there but set to zero. I have to change the volume to 1. I don't delete ones that are 0. For other repeat items eg Oatmeal, I have a master recipe that includes all the ingredients and spices, and here again, I edit out the ingredients I didn't use. You "explode" the ingredients of your custom meal and delete what you didn't add in. If I set this up as a repeatable custom meal, I still have to hit "Log" to enter it in the category. Because recipes and meals are set to Explode, I can reorder and edit and delete ingredients.
I'm not sure this is what you're looking for. I really only have one "Meal" that I've set to repeat M,T,W,Th, Friday, S, Sun for a specific time into a category I named "Wake Up", that's the supplement stack. Because I set them to explode, I can drag my iron to "Bedtime" if I want. Dashboard categories are: Wake Up, Breakfast, Morning Snack, Lunch, Mid Snack, Dinner, Bedtime Snack, Uncategorized (Metrics).
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In summary: set up your Diary with 8 custom names for the Wake up, Breakfast, Mid-morning Snack, Lunch, Mid-afternoon Snack, Dinner, Bed-time Snack, Uncategorized.
Create customized meals and recipes for as many repeatable items in your diet. Include variable ingredients that can be deleted. Create a Master Supplement Stack with all your variables set to "0". You just change to "1" to log them and edit the Master Meal as you replace supplements change brands etc. If you have a Morning, Afternoon and Evening or workout recovery stack create separate ones and schedule them to the Diary group, time etc.
Set the recipes to explode as individual ingredients. Then you swipe right on the recipe or meal and explode the ingredients.
Set Repeats to for specific Time Stamps, Diary Groups, Days of the Week. As long as they are set to explode you can further drag, delete, change timestamps, volume etc. -
Hi Maggie! I hadn't considered repeating meals/recipes, however the problem would persist there too, since you also can't reorder ingredients in a meal/recipe without manually deleting items. When you mention "further drag" - that's what I'm trying to avoid having to do with this feature request. Thanks for your ideas!
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So are you manually logging everything or copying from one day to the next? What's your process look like? Defnitiely give meals a try for snacks, lattes, recovery shakes etc.
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Yes, I use meals and recipes frequently - but my repeated items are mostly supplements, snacks, or common breakfast items - I'd like the ability to reorder them for visual/categorical grouping, for example I have 4-5 seeds and nuts I eat as snacks frequently, but sometimes I'll add something new into the mix or stop using something - as I add and delete things from my repeated items, when they are then added to a day, I cannot set the order they're grouped in, i.e. if I've got 10 things repeated and 4-5 of them are in a given category (like the nuts/seeds example), instead of all showing up one after another, they may be randomly spread out through the 10 entries.
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The only option I can see would be to create a Meal of Assorted Nuts and set the volume to 0. Then schedule a repeat for a specific Timestamp, Diary Group, Day of the week. Then they appear in the Diary Group in the order you created them and you adjust the volume. Anything left at 0 would not be logged.
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Maggie - I love your problem-solving nature!
This method still has the issues described, which is that as repeated entries change and are added/modified, you would need to rebuild the meal from scratch to group things as desired since meals/recipes also don't allow for reordering of items (which in itself would be a good feature). The ability to reorder things without having to rebuild is what this feature request was about
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Maggie, I've dramatically changed how I use the app based on your suggestions, so thanks so much for that. I've built so many recipes and my core meals, and it has cleaned up my diary quite alot.
I agree with Factual2581, that the ability to reorder repeat items whilst setting them up, and have that order persist into the diary, would still be beneficial, especially for my slightly OCD mind. I like to order things in each group, in a particular way, as it makes it easier to look at, assess, find items, change items, etc. also, I find it more aesthetically pleasing, to have my items ordered in the way I prepare them and consume them. As I'm only 2 months into using this app, I am frequently making micro adjustments to my routine. While rebuilding recipes and meals from scratch, and reordering items within the meal group daily, are feasible solutions, it would just be more convenient to have the the re-ordering and order persistence features within the Repeat Items menu.
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@ThePaintedCar @Factual2581 Tracking fatigue is real and anything that makes it easier is welcome. I wondered about the precision in ordering but realize some users are carefully monitoring their blood sugar in response to foods ior spreading out their protein or calcium over the day, or consuming some foods together to regulate blood spike. and really need the precise data for insight into their metabolism. I'm not going to ask you guys, if you count the nuts or weigh them or if you consume more than 30 gms of nuts on any giving day?
