Better UX for meals in the Diary

[candroid-man]

I sometimes struggle with separation meals with lots of ingredients with other items.

This is what my Diary looks like after eating a variety of different things for dinner, and it is a little unorganized.

I think a great way of improving this would be to have the meals as collapsible items with ingredients under them.

So for example, say I wanted to add a meal to my Diary. This meal consists of 4 individual ingredients from the "food" section. Instead of doing this:

1. Bread
2. Cheese
3. Meat
4. Sauce

You could make it more like a hierarchy like this:

• Sandwich
• [ ] Bread
• [ ] Cheese
• [ ] Meat
• [ ] Sauce

In this case "sandwich" is the meal name, and you could remove or add ingredients to it like you already can, but it would all be under "sandwich" which would be collapsible to make it easier to read while other items and meals are present.

[davidhealey]

Use the meals or recipes features for this.

[candroid-man]

This isn't about when you go to add a meal to the diary, it's about better organizing the diary after you add a meal

[davidhealey]

Ah I see. Seems like a reasonable suggestion.

[EmilJunker]

I don't see this happening. The point of a meal is being able to add multiple items to the diary at once, with predefined quantities of each item. After adding a meal, you can freely change the quantities of the individual items and also remove individual items again, without affecting the remaining items of the meal. And this is intended, not a bug (just to be clear). Therefore, in my opinion, the changes proposed above don't really make sense and would be difficult to implement.

If you want your sandwich to be listed in the diary as a single entry, you should use a recipe instead of a meal.

[davidhealey]

If you want your sandwich to be listed in the diary as a single entry, you should use a recipe instead of a meal.

Yeah I think you're right here, a recipe is the way to go.

[candroid-man]

I would argue that a sandwich (for example) doesn't belong in recipes. I have spaghetti in my recipes and it's for an entire pot of spaghetti, and then in meals I divide that into servings.

I think there would still be benefits to collapse meals as well because it makes everything confusing and cluttered without this imo