i’ve been trying to track eating 2 meals a day for the last month or so, and i’ve gotten tired of manually logging. i’m a college student on meal plan, so there ARE locations that i don’t typically go to unless i’m eating a meal, but the options for location triggers in IFTTT are much too broad so i accidentally trigger them usually at least once per day (and i’ve weaselproofed myself, so i don’t want to bug support until i’ve really found a better way to do this)
does anyone have better ideas on how to automate this?
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Are you tracking a single data point for each meal or are you logging what you ate? Sounds like the first, in which case it’s not that big a hassle.
You can try forming a habit where you don’t start eating unless you enter the data point. It will become automatic after a while. My 1412 days streak on MyFitnessPal says so 
Get a flic button, put the flic button on a keychain with your meal card, and press the button every time your meal card gets swiped.
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I’m DIY-ing bluetooth buttons right now, so maybe i’ll use one for that. The only other thing i was thinking was maybe trying to scrape the website where you can check the balance on your campus account so that when i use a meal swipe it’ll send a datapoint to beeminder?
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Yeah, good idea! Use a script to retrieve the page every hour, save it, and compare with a previously saved version to see if it changed. You’ll probably have to do some sanity checking because those kind of pages are down or change format half the time.