scale + app workflow desideratum
A scale that connects to a calorie tracker app, working as follows:
- Pressing a button on the scale transmits the current weight to the app (although obviously, not the actual name of the item, at this point).
- This can be done repeatedly, until I’m ready (usually, after sitting down) to annotate the items, where I’ll see a list of weights and timestamps for un-annotated items
- For each item, I can then assign a food to it (and meal), populating the calories
Absent this, I find it extremely annoying and tedious to add an ingredient, wash my hands (depending on what it is), find an appropriate food in the app* and log it, then add the next ingredient, etc. The alternative is try to remember both the ingredient name and the weight, in order**.
If this does exist, or something sufficiently similar, I’ll be thrilled; I looked a fair amount and it didn’t seem like it, however.
*related, but different— I should be able to filter for foods that have a weight unit; it’s extremely annoying to have to; one by one, open entries for “New York pizza” and find that they have the useless unit of “1 slice” (and commensurately varying calories between 200 and 700).
**my ideal workflow above does involve remembering the ingredient still, but that’s much easier than also remembering the weights, especially when the number of weights in the inbox will be a good mnemonic to not forget any ingredients. ___