r/cronometer

Hi all,

I've been using the free version of Cronometer for about a week now and am loving it.

After more than 10 years with MyFitnessPal, I was dreading having to learn a new tracking app and to start over with all the recipes and meals I'd built up over a decade. I was also worried that the app wouldn't recognise many Australian products.

If I'd known how clear and easy this app was to use I would have jumped ship long ago😊

I'm planning to upgrade to Gold and wondering if I the app offers any specials around Black Friday/ Cyber Monday?

I know that day old rice, pasta, frozen and toasted bread and similar foods have more resistant starch, making them better for diabetics. I’m not sure if it changes anything that Cronometer measures? I can’t find an entry.

Hello hello,

When making recipes, I use the "Notes" text box to fill in preparation instructions so i can remember how to make it, as well as a link if needed to wherever I got the recipe from; usually that being YouTube or a blog.

Once a recipe is added to the diary though, there doesn't seem to be a way to actually view those notes without opening the recipe listing itself for editing, making the "notes" basically invisible and useless when logging the recipe itself.

So:

As a user... I want to view the notes I've made in a recipe
In order to... remember instructions or important preparation conditions when assembling a meal, without needing to interact with "Edit" functions"
So I can... more easily prepare recipes according to predetermined steps

So I propose the following user stories in addition to the above, as a kind of "prepare this recipe" function that a user can activate in the diary view on mobile/desktop:

As a user... I want to open a "Make this recipe view" on a recipe diary entry
In order to... view ingredients and instructions listed in a recipe easily
So I can...

• not be forced to enact irreversible "explode" feature to view recipe ingredients
• Not be forced to interact with the "Edit recipe" feature to view notes, as this is not my intention
• Keep my diary entries clean and ordered
• Easily view notes and preparation instructions
• View embedded links I may have in the notes or preparation instruction

Also, given the nature of cooking sometimes you add a little more/less of something or need to make a substitute. So the "prepare this recipe" function should have the "Adjust this Recipe" feature built into it.

As a user... I want to be able to change ingredient amounts and add/remove ingredients from "Prepare this recipe" view
In order to... dynamically adjust ingredients and amounts while preparing a recipe I am not familiar with

So I can...

• Make corrections or substitutions to a recipe without needing to separately edit its instance or base recipe while preparing it, or duplicate the recipe
• Automatically have calorie and nutrient information in the diary updated in accordance with my changes
• Keep preparation instructions visible as I am preparing a recipe i am not familiar with

Hope this all makes sense and happy to clarify!

I think there should be some sort of optional “Anti-E.D.”/"Intuitive eating" feature that can be turned on or off depending on preference. When enabled, it would hide your calorie and macro totals for the current day, with the totals becoming visible again the following day.

I know quite a few people who I think this could help tremendously. I’ve even caught myself restricting what I eat when I’m displeased with my calorie count for the day, rather than listening to my hunger and eating intuitively.

The point of this feature wouldn’t be to discourage calorie or macro tracking altogether. You could still log everything as usual; the difference would simply be that you wouldn’t have access to the running numbers until the next day. This could help people manage their nutrition while reducing the temptation to change their eating based solely on how their numbers look.

I think having the choice to track while also being able to take a step back from the numbers could make the app more helpful and accessible for people who find that seeing their daily totals negatively affects how they eat.

Edit: I can't reply to every comment so to every one of you: Thanks so much for all of your input. It's great to see so many people who relate, and understand eachother. Truly a great community! God bless all of you