Feeding in individual food items into TW is a tedious task. *IF* you intend to do this, may I recommend the NewTids macro <http://newtids.tiddlyspot.com/>.
<:-) On Sunday, December 5, 2021 at 7:52:47 PM UTC+1 cj.v...@gmail.com wrote: > There are loads of ridiculously adept TiddlyWiki folk who can help you out. > > I'll have to bail, because trying to help out with this kind of thing via > any forum is way too chaotic and disorganised for me to contribute towards > the development of good stuff. (Information Systems/Business Analyst and > software developer I am, but I have a cognitive disability and quickly > become dysfunctional in this kind of environment.) > > I look forward to seeing the end-result, because what you have in mind is > an awesome use-case for TiddlyWiki. > > Cheers and best regards! > On Sunday, December 5, 2021 at 1:54:42 PM UTC-4 cassandr...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> Thank you all for your answer ! >> >> @CJ : for the practical aspect of the grocery list, I already have a >> pretty good idea of the function I want as I'm already be using the book >> for quite some time. The serving doesn't need to be adapted. >> Most ingredients are either in gram or in unity (for exemple, most of the >> vegetable is indicated as "two onions". Pasta or rice are indicated in >> gram). >> I am confortable enough with the recipes and cooking in general to adapt >> which type (volume) of onion I need even if it's roughly indicated I need 4 >> onions. >> The biggest problem for me right now is the programming part as I have no >> education in the matter unfortunately haha. >> >> @Télumire : thank for the proceding, I did understand the reasoning but >> I'm having troubles for implementing it. >> As said just now, I don't have a good programming knowledge and I think >> the most I knew where how to print the famous HelloWorld haha. >> For now, I did create the data tiddler for all recipes of week 1. I did >> implement a simple multiple select but with no function in it because I >> can't write it. >> >> From what I understand in the pure logic form (correct me if I'm wrong) : >> I need to write a formula which will take into account which data tiddler >> I selected in the multiple select. With selected data tiddlers, I will need >> to show the name property with the index value associated (which I need to >> get with getindex). In case there are multiples same named property, I need >> to use the function SUM. >> >> One big obstacle for me is how to use operator in Tiddlywiki. Just >> copy-pasting the formula doesn't seem to work because I guess I need to put >> something to tell Tiddler that what I'm writing is a formula. Until now, >> using the bracet [] for simple list were enough. I think I don't know the >> basic of the basic to implement formula in my tiddler. >> Do you have a good ressource to learn from ? I saw TW page for developper >> but I don't know if it's adapted. Ressources with already written formula >> from which I can inspire myself is a big help too ^^ (for example, a >> pratical use of the getindex in action and not in the example of the TW. If >> not, it's okay !). >> >> I am not in hurry, it's more of a fun side project so learning it to do >> it myself could be benefical in the long term if I want to use Tiddlywiki >> more ^^ ! >> >> Le dimanche 5 décembre 2021 à 00:00:18 UTC+1, Álvaro a écrit : >> >>> >>> 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, >>> cj.v...@gmail.com 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, cassandr...@gmail.com 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. 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