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[mrtim]

I've noticed a couple of cool Food features, as opposed to just making restaurant notes in the regular app:

- built-in restaurant lookup: includes the address plus no more misspelled names

- auto-title: leave the title blank and the app seems to provide a title like "Lunch at <restaurant>"

- can specify a default notebook just for Food related notes

- you can crop and request smaller image sizes. I like adding pictures, especially wine labels and such, but always adding a 2448x3264 image is overkill.

I currently can't figure out:

- is there a way to specify a default tag

- how "related notes" are identified. When we go to a restaurant we've been to before, I want to see the previous notes taken there. Usually I do a location search from Evernote for this, which of course continues to work fine.

Are there any best practices around editing Food notes in the main app? It seems like I can add or edit text within a Food note fine from my PC, but when I deleted a test Food note from the PC I still see it in Food.

[Grimmknuckle]

Are there any best practices around editing Food notes in the main app? It seems like I can add or edit text within a Food note fine from my PC, but when I deleted a test Food note from the PC I still see it in Food.

Well, it is new so there are bound to be some bugs with it. For instance, can't change the creation date on Food notes. Found this out when I created Food notes for my past Thanksgiving meal and tried to alter the date from today to the day of the picture.

[kurka]

Are there any best practices around editing Food notes in the main app? It seems like I can add or edit text within a Food note fine from my PC, but when I deleted a test Food note from the PC I still see it in Food.

From my initial test I believe the app --> Evernote sync is just one way. The app has the master info and overwrites Evernote when a meal-note is modified. It seems so, because I can add a tag to the note on Evernote desktop, when the meal is updated in the app and synced to Evernote, the tag is gone. I think this is a good idea and the way it should be. At least until Desktop version gets it's own Food-edit functionality.

[Naomi]

Thanks for the feedback - great suggestions here.

I too like the idea of a default tag option and the ability to modify the date for meals made retroactively. Both are on the product roadmap.

Regarding sync, kurka is exactly right - it takes time to get this right and we're working hard to do so. In the meantime, treat the app as the place to create and maintain your meal notes and enjoy the Evernote version as a searchable and shareable memory of your food experience.

[kurka]

After having tested the app a little more, it strikes me that the biggest bonus feature of Food is that it is not at all food-related! For me, this app works just like a picture diary where I can store snapshots together with tags, locations and descriptions, and have it all presented in a beautiful way in the normal Evernote app. Maybe you should have called the app "Diary" instead of "Food"

By the way - the app contains a kind of "check in" functionality since the user can pick a location for the food. A great idea would be if it could automatically check in with Forursquare and/or Facebook places

[mrtim]

I've used the app now several times in the real world, and it works very nicely for the intended purpose.

One more suggestion: the address of the place appears in the text under the restaurant name. When viewed in the mobile versions of the main app, it recognizes this as an address and makes it a link into the Maps application. But there really isn't enough information in this address display for that to work, it needs at least the name of the state. Any chance this can be added?

[AngloScot]

I love Evernote food, for me it is a perfect app, quick to start, easy to use and it produces great looking records either within the app, in Evernote or on the web.

I thought I would chip in with my minor nice to haves:

1. Facebook non-integration - Weird I know! But it would be nice to have a setting somewhere that disables the Facebook share/like option. Quite happy that you default it to enabled but anything that lets me discourage Facebook from collecting info on me then spamming me would be a bonus.

2. A location feature with Google street view integration as in Hello would be great.

3. Expanding the text limit on the photograph captions. At the moment its 32 characters which isn't enough for "Welsh Rarebit with Rocket and Mushrooms"

[Naomi]

Thanks for the feedback and glad you are enjoying the app so far! We recognize that there is still plenty of work to be done here.

1. Regarding the Facebook integration, you have to actively express that you want to share your meal to Facebook and enter your credentials before Facebook gets any of your data. We have made sharing a completely optional aspect of Evernote Food, so you can enjoy using it as a personal archive of your food experiences.

2 & 3. Great ideas - we're looking into both of these.

[Naomi]

I currently can't figure out:

- is there a way to specify a default tag

The web team implemented a great solution to this that I'd like to share. If you log into your Evernote account and go to the search box and select "Add Filter..." you will see the option to select "Evernote Food" as a Source option, thus creating a filter for all of your notes created with the app. Hope this helps!

[Owyn]

FYI:
Web Client -> Search Box -> Click -> Add Filters -> Source -> Select "Evernote Food" -> Click "Search" button

and for the really tech types, the search grammar has been extended to support "contentClass:evernote.food.meal". This change may not have reached the other clients at the moment. I don't use Evernote Food so I can't specifically test that.

[mrtim]

Ah, splendid. That let's me do what I want. My issue was that I have several years of restaurant notes that are all tagged with "Restaurant". I have a saved search or two that I use all the time that returns appropriate reviews, and wanted the Food notes to appear as well. So:

any: tag:Restaurant contentClass:evernote.food.meal

works just fine. This also works in the current PC application BTW, at least for Food notes generated on a current version of Food.

Not that it's a big deal to tag every note with Restaurant, but why pass up an opportunity to experiment with a query language?

Thanks!

[lotsa_notes]

Hello,
I think Evernote Food is a great app. I just wanted to chime in my agreement for the following features:
1) Ability to modify date of meal
2) longer captions

I had some sort of strange sync issue where a meal wouldn't sync. There was a backlog of several meals that wouldn't sync. I logged out of EN food and logged back in... and lost my unsynchronized meals. :-(

I guess this leads to a suggestion for another feature:
1) save unsynchronized meals in the event of a logout

Besides that, great work and thanks!

[Naomi]

I had some sort of strange sync issue where a meal wouldn't sync. There was a backlog of several meals that wouldn't sync. I logged out of EN food and logged back in... and lost my unsynchronized meals. :-(

I guess this leads to a suggestion for another feature:
1) save unsynchronized meals in the event of a logout

Besides that, great work and thanks!

Thanks for letting us know. We're looking into this.