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by neilv 882 days ago
Open source related application, for open source desktops like Linux (unfortunately not for open source Android/GrapheneOS currently), there's Alex Harsányi's ActivityLog2 (which is an impressive application in Racket):

https://github.com/alex-hhh/ActivityLog2/wiki/Just-The-Scree...

Incidentally, I'd love to have an open source, privacy-respecting nutrition tracker that works on open source desktops. (I find my laptop much, much faster than phone for recording this data, at least in the ad hoc way I'm doing it, including things like weights of every ingredient that goes into a dish.)
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ward 881 days ago
> Open source related application, for open source desktops like Linux (unfortunately not for open source Android/GrapheneOS currently), there's Alex Harsányi's ActivityLog2 (which is an impressive application in Racket): > > https://github.com/alex-hhh/ActivityLog2/wiki/Just-The-Scree...

In that realm, there is also GoldenCheetah:

- https://www.goldencheetah.org/ - https://github.com/GoldenCheetah/GoldenCheetah

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hombre_fatal 882 days ago
The hard part about a nutrition tracker is the data.

The most complete nutrient data for basic foods seems to be http://www.ncc.umn.edu/food-and-nutrient-database/ which you need to pay for, so I wonder how an open source implementation could work.

I use Cronometer daily which shows you the datasource for each food you add, and if it's not NCCDB (the one at the link above) then chances are it's not going to have much info. Yet that extra info is exactly why I'm using a nutrient tracker rather than just a calorie tracker.

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