What if, instead of a food journal app, I just had a domain-specific language and the ability to create templates for myself?
I'd love to just write, "I ate a burrito, which in this instance means beans, pork, onions, and sour cream, and guac." I already set a variable for guac, which means ingredients include avocado, onions, tomato, and it assumes the general ingredients unless otherwise specified
Templates would allow me to enter other forms of data as I wish in a consistent way. For example, my template for meals might also include how I felt before and afterwards.
The DSL would also include easy ways to query and visualize my data. "Show me the days I felt bad and what I ate then as a list. Now show me items that I only ate when I felt bad"
A DSL vs. an app here would allow me to really make it my own, and to just open up a quick note to jot things down in a specific syntax and know it would work. Default templates would give me an on-ramp for proper syntax on basic functionality.
The DSL would of course need ways to enter in nutritional information as well (saving to a variable of course so you don't need to repeat the effort)... and perhaps a way to pull from APIs that already carry that information.
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