As they said, you have to think about how save the ingredients of the recipe in the tiddler, you can use the index of a data tiddler for recipe or simply the field of a tiddler for recipe.
Then you would need to use the filters <https://tiddlywiki.com/#Filters> and their operators. You will need to retrieve the data for your grocery list. El sábado, 4 de diciembre de 2021 a las 23:37:47 UTC+1, [email protected] escribió: > Example of something to keep in mind: if a recipe calls for 100grams of > onion, you'll want to convert that into something useful for grocery > shopping. > > Probably good to instead talk about a measure of an onion for groceries. > You won't be buying a 100 g onion, so you'll want to have 1 onion, > regardless of size and know you'll have left-over onion for your omelette > the next day. Because you need about 1/4 of a small onion, or whatever of > a big onion. > > But if you need an amount of grams o' onion that requires a large onion, > then you'll want a way to say a large onion. Or two small onions. Or > whatever. Knowing you'll be doing a little bit of rough math at the > grocery store. > > Your grocery list will get messy if you have 1 small onion and 1 large > onion when the onions are in a bag. > > All of that to say, don't be to quick to start building everything in TW > until you can visualize (spreadsheet or whatever) get a somewhat reasonable > amount of "stuff" for the big picture. > > This process will help you decide to what degree of complex you want, and > how/what/where to simplify when you don't want to get that bogged down in > complexity, yadda yadda. > > On Saturday, December 4, 2021 at 6:17:49 PM UTC-4 Télumire wrote: > >> You could do it like this : >> >> Create a data tiddler for a recipe with a quantity associated to each >> ingredient. To make things easier the unit will be hardcoded in grams (or >> whatever you like, but always the same). >> >> Then you can select your recipe for the week with a select widget for >> example (https://tiddlywiki.com/#SelectWidget), use the data of the >> widget in a list widget (https://tiddlywiki.com/#ListWidget) which will >> sum the values of each unique index accross the data-tiddlers you selected. >> >> I think you will need the count Operator ( >> https://tiddlywiki.com/#count%20Operator), getindex Operator ( >> https://tiddlywiki.com/#getindex%20Operator), sum Operator ( >> https://tiddlywiki.com/#sum%20Operator). Good luck and let me know if >> you need help to understand something :) >> >> Le samedi 4 décembre 2021 à 22:50:32 UTC+1, [email protected] a >> écrit : >> >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> New here, using TW since a year ago but only for simple notekeeping >>> which didn't use a lot of in deep knowledge with it. >>> >>> I'm currently using the latest version available of TW (the v5.2.0 I >>> think ?). >>> >>> So here's my problem. As an effort to manage a bit more my money and my >>> time, I decided to invest in a batch cooking book which has proven great >>> overtime. >>> My problem is that each week, I need to manually type the cooking list >>> on my phone/computer. >>> I decided if I keep on doing it for a long time, I could as well >>> simplify the process. I thought about using TW but I am at loss as how to >>> do it. >>> >>> *What I would want ideally* : >>> - To click on or in the tiddler "Week 1" for example and have an >>> automatic generated list of all the ingredients I need to buy for this week >>> - At the same time, I wish I could check/uncheck which recipe I would >>> want to in this week or not and have the adapted grocery list >>> - As an add-on, it would be great if I could check multiples ingredients >>> and see recipe which contain them >>> >>> The first thing (in my mind) doesn't seem complicated as I can simply >>> write the grocery list in "hard". >>> But I can't even begin to imagine how to "uncheck" a recipe of this week >>> and "decrease" the grocery list accordingly. >>> As a very very very basic knowledge (minimal), it would be like for >>> exemple creating a variable for "egg" which would contain "4" if all recipe >>> are checked but if I uncheck recipe for the tuesday which contain an egg, >>> the variable egg will be "3". >>> And to do it for all ingredients / recipe. >>> >>> Is someone here has an idea how to begin or to do something similar, I'm >>> all ear ! >>> >>> Thank for your answers >>> >>> >>> -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/085e0f8b-f8e8-41dc-b5c5-b74a9c59ae5dn%40googlegroups.com.
