Feature request: include a customizable food library

[Philoul]

Use case: when we often use the same food or same meal (i.e. for breakfast, ...) it can be quicker to re-use from library an existing element, insteade of taking new photos, new code bars...

Be also able to group several foods together within library could be a must 😉

[berkantdu123]

Good idea,
About the implementation, I could put a "Duplicate" button on the meal/food's menu that would create a new one on the clicked time-stamp, does that sound good or do you have a better idea?

[Philoul]

I had more in mind on one side a library to organize food or meals frequently used, and on the other side the history of the meals.

• library could be organized by name, type of food...
• History is history with first key the date

Library could be another way to select what you want (code bar, photo, library...).

We could include meals within library in super market or in front of fridge, without eating each item...

[Philoul]

But we can also imagine cross copy (select an item or a meal from history to add it within the library to be able to use it again later 🤔)

[aptdnfapt]

so whats the deal on this ?need to make a new tab of something ?
maybe make a sketch on this ?
https://excalidraw.com/#json=9Xrdn6jnkud4blD7kUYR8,wborEkqz5r0ClrmbFIXzGQ

[Philoul]

The idea behind is to allow a user to select directly within the library a food or an overall meal, instead of scan or take a photo and send to IA:

Use case: every morning my breakfast is always the same:
Milk with chocolate, bread and butter.

I can record once each food to have this breakfast recorded within my history.
But if I have to spend 10 min each morning to enter again each single item it will be a lost of time, so the idea is to copy within a library and then just select it to copy the overall food with main view with current time.

Now if one morning I replace butter by Jam, then I just have within main view to remove butter and only add jam.

Other use case, I often take one yoghourt at the end of each meal, so it's much easier to record it once with a nice photo and put it in the library and just select it to add it to my current meal...