Life Design2026

Food OS

A food tracker that asks nothing of you but to write down what you ate.

Overview

Write down whatever you ate in one Apple Note. A Shortcut ships it to a Google Sheet, where AI cleans it up and matches it to a personal food database.

Timeline
1 day

The challenge

Calorie trackers make you learn a new app and hunt through a database missing half your food. I wanted zero decision fatigue.

The approach

Apple Notes for input, Apps Script and an AI model for cleanup, a spreadsheet as the database — no app to build or maintain.

The outcome

Cooked and in daily use — this is genuinely how I track food now.

Stack

  • Notes
  • Google Sheets
  • Deepseek
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