By day three you stop searching: recents, frequents, favourites
In short
Radish files what you log into three lists that fill themselves: Recent (from the first time), Frequent (from the second), Favourites (when you tap the star on a result). Add the ability to copy a whole meal from another day, and a typical day gets logged in seconds, with no typing.
On day one, everything is a search. That's normal, and it's also where a lot of people quit: thirty seconds a food, five foods a day, the arithmetic decides on its own. The good news: Radish files what you log, and you only need to know where it files it.
Three lists that fill themselves
- Recent — foods you log are saved here automatically, from the first time.
- Frequent — a food shows up here from the second time you log it. This is the list that becomes most useful by the end of week one.
- Favourites — tap the ☆ star on any search result and you'll find it here. It's the only one of the three that asks for a gesture, and the one you control.
Two more lists round it out: My foods, where the foods you created yourself land, and Recent searches, which hands back the terms you already typed instead of making you retype them.
Tick several foods, confirm once
The “Add to meal” sheet is not a one-food screen. You tick what you ate, the bottom button shows the running total (“Add all 4 · 612 kcal”), and a single confirmation writes every entry. A breakfast that's the same every morning gets logged in three gestures.
The most underused shortcut: copying a whole meal
From a meal in the diary, Copy a meal opens a sheet with two fields: a date (yesterday by default) and the meal to pull from. The button announces how many entries will be copied, and stays disabled if there is nothing to copy on that day. It's the fastest way to log a day that looks like the previous one — a weekday lunch, a Sunday dinner.
Two search details that save time
- A sort button switches between the default order and name order — useful when you know what the food is called but not where it's filed.
- A Reset filters button clears active filters in one tap, with an on-screen confirmation. An unusually short list is almost always a forgotten filter, not an incomplete database.
And if you often eat the same thing?
Then the next shortcut is a personal recipe: a dish you cook every week deserves to be saved once, with its ingredients and its number of servings, so it logs with one tap afterwards. That's the subject of Creating a personal recipe.
Frequently asked questions
How do I favourite a food?
Tap the star shown on the search result. It then appears in the Favourites tab.
Why is my Frequent list empty?
A food appears there from the second time you log it. Before that, it's in Recent.
Can I copy a meal from an older date?
Yes. The sheet offers yesterday by default, but you can pick any date. The button says how many entries will be copied.
Do these lists work without a connection?
Yes: they are built from your diary, which stays saved on your phone — never sent to our servers (except AI or barcode scanning, if you use them).
Are these shortcuts a paid feature?
No. The diary, search, the lists and copying a meal are part of the free core.
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