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Quick Logging Tips

The shortcuts that make logging take seconds instead of minutes

5 min readUpdated Sep 2, 2026

Most of what you eat, you eat again. ClapDiet is built around that: almost every shortcut below is a way of logging something you have logged before, without searching for it again.

Log something again in one tap

These appear on your dashboard, on Foods and on Meals, depending on where you are:

  • Frequent foods - the foods you have logged most over the last 30 days. Tap one to log it with the same serving as last time.
  • Repeat yesterday - yesterday's entries, offered as chips. Useful when your breakfast does not change.
  • Recently viewed - foods you opened but did not necessarily log.
  • Recent searches - your last searches, so a half-remembered food is one tap away.
  • On Meals, each past entry has a re-log control that copies it to today.

    Scan instead of typing

    Scan & Recognize on the web has four tabs, and the phone has the same capabilities across its scanner screens:
  • Photo - photograph the plate and ClapDiet proposes the foods it recognises. You confirm or correct them before anything is logged.
  • Text - type or paste what you ate in plain words and it is broken down into foods.
  • Barcode - scan or type a barcode. Over four million products carry one in the database.
  • Label - photograph a nutrition label and its figures are read off it, then handed to the log screen.
  • Nothing from a scan is logged until you confirm it, so a misread never lands silently in your day.

    Save what you eat regularly

  • Favorites - star a food and it is one tap from the Favorites list forever.
  • Collections - group foods you eat together, for example a usual breakfast or a lunch rotation.
  • My Foods - create a custom food once, with your own nutrition figures, for anything the database does not carry: a family recipe, a local product, your own protein shake.
  • Set the serving once

    When you log a food, the serving you choose is remembered as that food's serving next time you re-log it from a frequent or repeat chip. Getting it right the first time saves you every subsequent time.

    Let ClapDiet remind you

    Under Settings, Reminders lets you add a meal reminder, a water reminder, or your own custom reminder at any hour, in your timezone. On the phone, the meal and hydration reminders are switches in Notification Settings. Reminders are hour-granular: pick the hour, not the minute.

    When you are in a hurry

    Log the food and fix the serving later. An entry with an approximate serving still counts toward your streak, still moves your totals in the right direction, and can be corrected from Daily Summary on the phone in two taps.


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  • Searching for Foods
  • Favorites & Collections
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