Willbee

Hey all,

I am working on a free simplifies journal for meal tracking and keeping notes and photos from restaurants. It's called Memory Bite and is currently available for Android on the Google Play Store. I think it makes a pretty decent replacement for Evernote Food's meal function. I'm not a professional developer and this is my first project, but it works very well for my needs. I think it might help some people out there as a replacement, and I would love some feedback so I know what additional features to build into it.

If you want to check it out, go to the Google Play Store and search Memory Bite or check out www.memorybite.com

Thanks!

Andy

This app looks really promising and fills the gap that other apps leave on Android - I will probably try it out! 

As for focusing on "core application"  -Evenote is missing a huge opportunity to expand template/app driven tie ins with it's core application.  

After looking in vain for another provider of an app for meal saving and restaurant photo journaling and not finding any ready-made templates, I decided to create my own just by fancing up a regular Evernote note!

 

And I'm actually really happy - I can now provide more information in a better organized way than with the Food app. I'd always used my tablet camera to snap pics of courses, drinks, restaurant interiors and then added them via the easy Food app addition. I'll have to manually add them now, but by using Evernote tables, the ability to color in the cell background and deciding on what criteria I want to make note of, I can make even better use of Evernote now.

 

And by simply copying the note to another notebook, I've been able to create what is in effect a template.

 

So tonight's last meal via the Food app will be the first meal using my own custom-designed Evernote note - with more info for me and friends and all the other wonderful advatages of Evernote as a multi-format tool (I use Evernote on a PC, a MacBook, and my Android tablet/phone).

Would like more information on what you mean by using "tables"   to replace Evernote food as a template?    I'm interested in anything that helps!     (so far I have only been able to use tables on Windows to create rows and columns in Evernote.. it hasn't seemed too useful but maybe I haven't figured it out yet.)

I was very sad to use my Food app for the last time. It was so nice to see the locations and information in such a beautiful format. I hope Evernote decides to allow photo captioning or a similar template for general use. - I think note takers, foodies and others would make a lot of use of it!

One other app, Snapdish, supposedly offers to post to Evernote.  So it could be a workaround, though it doesn't seem to have a restaurant locator.

Hmm, Flava looks interesting but they charge quite a bit for storage, like $10 for a gigabyte (at least on iOS App Store), though that should cover plenty of meals.

 

Also see something called Meal Logger for iOS but it doesn't have purchase options for storage.  I would think though that if people upload a lot of photos and it eats up storage, they will put a stop or go out of business.

 

It might be possible to use Evernote to take pics and upload meals but no built-in restaurant identification and no filters for the photos.  I always like using the boost filter.

 

 

Photo journaling of restaurant meals is fairly widespread.  So what else are people using?  Probably Facebook and Instagram and other social networking apps. just to have some pics of dishes on their timelines as opposed to saving meals?

 

Problem with FB and Instagram, which I haven't used, is that once your timeline scrolls past, you can't go back and see those older pics right?

 Snapdish and other apps out there are geared towards sharing, liking recipes, etc.  and there are tons of  other similar apps and meal loggers that are geared towards dieting and inspiration and timeline sharing  instead of capturing memories.   am not interested in those apps so much;  If I want to post pictures of food for social media I can just use Instagram, FB - etc.     (there's also tons of food photo filters out there if that's something you like)

But for me -- the whole point of Evernote Food was keeping memories (for me/not social) organized. On social media/other apps... it's just all crowded in there with other content on a timeline view that doesn't let you easily recall what you want to see.     The beauty of Food was that you could easily tag/geotag with restaurants and recall other food memories all in one easy to navigate location.

Flava does unfortunately have a limited amount of storage

I used Evernote Food on a trip last week and a few other apps to compare the usefulness/replace it as my food journalling app -- and the results were really sad and made me even more upset  that Food is not supported and worse, will cease functioning.

I can't believe that Evernote can't add some kind of foursquare integration/location ability to notes or a template to add photo captions.   The most useful part of Evernote Food was in selecting nearby restaurants (and seeing related notes!) along with our pictures/journal of memorable meals.   If they added this capability to the core Evernote, it would have usefulness and applications for people doing holiday or travel journal too.

I tried My Food Circle, but found it glitchy and also too much of a "social" app.  Like others, it's related to social interacting/dieting/fitness, etc.   None of the things I wanted to use Food for.    I also  tried about 5 diary apps too.  So far, the only one that seems to do a few of the things that Evernote Food did was: FLAVA (for android)  -- it too has foursquare integration like Evernote Food did   - though it doesn't have food/cuisine categories and only brings up the name and location of the restaurant or place to attach to the note, and is limited to 5 photos per entry.

Interesting about Spoontacular!     There's a huge lot of restaurant  apps (yelp, etc.) and recipe/meal planner apps galore but the ability to photo-journal food is something I'm not finding on the Android market.

There are a few apps (Diaro and Flava for example) that allow for tagged entries, text information and multiple pictures (many only allow one photo)  alongside a map (Google Places or Maps) location  of your restaurant. But they're not ideal and don't really synch with Evernote.  (within Diaro you can "share" with Evernote but the note just has text and large format pictures and Flava's synch is just to url of your entry on their site)   -- I haven't found anything that allows you to CAPTION the photos either like Food did...

but the search continues.

We suggest giving Web Clipper a try to collect recipes and cooking inspirations. Evernote is a great place to capture your favorite meal experiences.  Also, check out our App Center Food Collection which also features Evernote-integrated food-centric apps that you might like.

 

Your recipe clippings should be editable in Evernote, but the meal and restaurant notes are locked. We are taking note of your feedback and will definitely take it into consideration moving forward. 

I agree with the others..  the list of apps suggested aren't useful because the core features of Evernote Food and why people used it was not because of the recipes (there's lots of apps to clip and save recipes) but because of the organisation, geolocation of restaurant info and photos.     Evernote itself can tag location in photos but it doesn't it in a useful way and you can look for nearby restaurants, etc.

Also, was "IF (IFTTT - if this then that)"  included on the list because the word "recipe"  was in the description?  I can't think of how that app would be useful at all for the Evernote Food functions unless people wanted to save recipes to Evernote from Pocket or something. 

The features we're losing after September 30th:

• Ability to edit existing  Evernote Food notes within Evernote will go away.  Notes will be uneditable.
• Geolocation/address  and the graphic map information of restaurant does not appear in Evernote
• No more picking from nearby restaurants based on location information.  These features end with Evernote Food.
• There will be no "food memories" template for captioned photos and meal memories in Evernote; you just have to create a regular note in the standard format (no more ability to easily add photos of food)

Does anyone know of alternative apps?  So far, pickings are slim especially on Android.

I used to use this all the time for vacation memories and special event/restaurant memories.

This is really terrible!  I'm really bummed out that they're getting rid of Evernote Food.   Web clipping can obviously save recipes, but the whole point of Evernote food was to save (an an easy viewable template) restaurant location, food memories, pictures.  --- Making a note in Evernote with some pictures of food and saving them to a notebook (or letting them get jumbled with other notes) is not ideal. The location, restaurant type, notes, tags and pictures displayed in  Evernote Food is what made it so special.      I always thought it would be great if Evernote created "Evernote Trips" too!

I don't want to make food "notes".    - Hopefully there's another photo-journal app that can fill the gap.    (There are food journals but they're oriented to weight loss not pictures.)   Does anyone know of any replacements?

Boo!! 

ps.  - Maybe Evernote can come up with templates for notes that people could use for these purposes?