I want to be able to just enter the number of calories I ate, and a name/label for the food instead of needing to look up the food in the overwhelming database. The Quick Calories feature on Android is CLOSE, but doesn't let you label the food.
The reason I want this is that my most common use case is that I just want to use Fitbit as a food journal to track calories in vs calories out. I do NOT want to use it to "look up how many calories are in this" or calculate macros. Most times I already know the number of calories I ate (because it's literally printed on the label of the food in my hand), and I just want to write it down.
Currently, accomplishing this task is frustrating. I have the name of the food, and the calories... but in order to get this information into my Fitbit log, I have to search for the food, find a version of the food that is approximately the number of calories I need to log, or is in units that I can easily customize until I reach the calories I need to log. On Android, I can adjust the amount until I reach the calories I want to log. That's still too many steps if I just want to quickly write down the name and the calories.
On the website it's even worse... On the website, there isn't a Quick Calories option at all. The ONLY way to add calories to the log is overly complicated. You have to search for the food, find a version that is approximately the right calories in the drop-down menu, and then you have to guess/adjust the serving size or weight... which is information you might not even have.... So my workaround is often to just log the smallest unit (like 1oz) and then adjust it using the +/- labels later. The website doesn't currently let you SEE how many calories it is until after I log the food, which means I always have to adjust it manually EVEN THOUGH I already know the number of calories. If my guess at the serving size was wrong and the calories calculated isn't close enough to what I want to enter, and the +/- is the wrong units or won't increment/decrement, I have to delete the entry and try again. This is sooo frustrating when I just want to enter the name and the number of calories and be done.
This is not a good workflow for a VERY COMMON use case (user knows the food name and the calories already and just wants to write it in the log).
Again, the tl;dr: The Quick Calories feature in the Android app is ALMOST what I want (and I want it on both the website and on Android). I want that feature to just also allow you to label the food. If the Quick Calories feature included a field to "name" it, it would be perfect.
Moderator edit: updated subject for clarity
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