Mark, The tedium of what you describe is a good reason for a solution in tiddlywiki.
- Currently I use Google Keep, I like how it recalls past items and suggests them as I type - I plan to build a tool because I often do variations on a single recipe But that's for another day I need to earn a living first, and near total lockdown of society does not bode well Regards Tony On Monday, March 23, 2020 at 4:57:47 AM UTC+11, Mark S. wrote: > > I've been using TW for my grocery list for years. Just recently came up > with a newer version per a request in another thread: > > https://marxsal.github.io/various/groceries.html > > I could add features and flesh it out more, but I suspect that most people > just user paper and pencil for their lists. Using paper and pencil seems > easiest ... at first. Until you come back from store ABC and realize you > could have picked up a rutabaga there, but didn't remember because human > memory just doesn't work that way. So you end up doing two or three trips > where you might have gotten everything done in one, if you had had a list > broken down by store. Or a list that would remind you to double-check > essential (recurring) items. Or a list broken down by parts of the store, > so everything you need in "dairy" is grouped together so you don't run back > and forth across the store several times. > > I also have a recipe database. But I can't really share it because the > recipes are private source. > > There are large database of public domain recipes, but the quality is > somewhat suspect. I hate to recommend something I haven't tried. > > The problem with combining recipes with shopping lists is the extreme > tedium of breaking out ingredients for each recipe. It's more work than > it's worth. It's usually easier to just cut and paste a recipe into TW, and > then use the search feature to look for things as you need them. > > On Sunday, March 22, 2020 at 10:12:03 AM UTC-7, Diego Mesa wrote: >> >> All, >> >> I just came across this open source program on HN: >> >> Website: >> https://grocy.info/ >> >> Hackernews Comments: >> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22646358 >> >> and thought this would make yet another "edition" for the TW ecosystem! >> Just pointing it out to the community. >> >> Diego >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/fb5510c0-6ebf-4437-9333-90ffcf2eebc7%40googlegroups.com.
