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Flavor stash #10

Open pscn opened 5 years ago

pscn commented 5 years ago

Something I thought about a little was the stash. As some users mentioned, they would like the website to tell them if they don’t have enough of any of their supplies, which kept me thinking. We could add a column to the stash which is simply for “How many ml do I have left?” Like the cost-calculation on ELR, people would probably have to do this manually, since there’s just no way for us to detect how many ml of a flavour a user has. But if you do spend some time and keep it updated, it could really be helpful. For example, a user can set his threshold on “I’d like to be informed that I have to reorder this soon”, let’s say its 5ml, so if he scrolls through is stash now, every Flavour that has less than 5ml has a red name. You could give all flavours a button with “add to my next order”, and a button on top that adds all flavours below the threshold to your next order. If you mix a recipe for example, you put in how much juice you want to have at the end, and so on, and the websites automatically subtracts everything you used for that recipe. Not only would this help mixers keep track of their inventory, better than simply saying “I have this flavour” or “I don’t have this flavour”, every time that button gets pressed though is valuable information, because we can use this information to build upon the recipe page that Wayne was talking about so profusely, which leads to the next point

Trying to drill it down:

My personal wish list:

Korlimann commented 5 years ago

Can only agree with the points listed above. Something to ease the process of adding your current amount of a flavour in your stash is something I'd find rather important, as people with more stash than others don't want to spend hours or days adding their current amounts of each flavour. I think your last point would be a good "How to" we could include, but I don't really have any specific ideas for that atm.

daviddyess commented 5 years ago

Something I'd like to see is a way to build/update your flavor stash as you are doing recipes. You choose a flavor and a checkbox is there "Add to stash" if it's not in your stash, then an optional field lets them add how many mL they have and they never have to leave the recipe calculator.

I think if we use the recipe calculator as a type of flavor manager as well, we'll get more engagement and more people willing to use it.

pscn commented 5 years ago

I like that. It should be as easy to use as possible. And taking care of it while adding a recipe or even while mixing would be cool. I also think that we should remember that not everybody is going to use the flavor stash or any other cool feature we might implement. So everything should be usable for people with nothing in their stash e. g.:

That's mostly a reminder for myself as I tend to forget that. And that's why I still think we should define some "user roles", to keep that in mind. I'll start an issue for that.

mckernanin commented 5 years ago

Just mixed up 240ml, it'd be nice to be able to enter what percentages you actually used when mixing. Some times you're feeling a certain flavor could be more pronounced, other times you're heavy handed with a flavor and don't want to toss a batch.

daviddyess commented 5 years ago

I would kind of like a log for when I use flavors. Like: CAP New York Cheesecake v2 used in [recipe] at [%] (N mL) on [date]. Then we could use the log to tally average percentages and even what flavors are being used together by having a recipe ref id. Could be useful in a few ways, like suggesting a recipe.