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My AI logs every meal by voice, text or photo into my own spreadsheet

After years of building his own food logging apps and never liking them, he set up an AI as his food logger in about half an hour, and now sends it a voice note, a text or a photo of each meal. The bot works out what he ate, looks up the nutrition numbers and logs it in a Google spreadsheet it made for him, and its guesses are usually right.

How it works

  1. Tell the AI it is his food logger and have it create a Google spreadsheet with the columns and sheets he needs
  2. Fix the setup over a couple of short rounds
  3. Send each meal as a voice note, a text or a photo
  4. The bot works out what the meal was, looks up the nutrition numbers and logs it in the spreadsheet
  5. Describe any change he wants and the bot reworks the spreadsheet

Why it’s worth knowing

The logger is not an app he bought. It is a bot he talked into keeping his food diary in a sheet he owns.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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