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Trimming down your RECENT list

LeonCX
LeonCX Posts: 862 Member
I noticed a lot of people ask how to do this. The FREQUENT tab has a delete option, but the default RECENT tab does not.

The only way to remove foods that you no longer want to appear in your Recent list is to keep a backlog of only a few days in your diary, like seven, and delete all other entries.This will shorten your recent list to a more manageable level. If you must save diary entries older than seven days, save them in a folder on your desktop as web pages or bitmaps. I hope this helps someone.

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  • socioseguro
    socioseguro Posts: 1,679 Member
    Hi:

    Many thanks for sharing.

    Good luck in your healthy journey
  • LeonCX
    LeonCX Posts: 862 Member
    bump
  • uconnwinsnc1
    uconnwinsnc1 Posts: 902 Member
    I made an entire new account recently because i had so many foods piled up and so many inactive friends.
  • ana3067
    ana3067 Posts: 5,623 Member
    Easiest thing to do is just custom-make all your foods so that you can delete and edit as needed. If you ate a bag of cheetos one weekend and you know that you almost never eat Cheetos, then you can easily delete it after that weekend. Then just always use your My Foods tab.

    I pretty much never use entries that I haven't created myself.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    I noticed a lot of people ask how to do this. The FREQUENT tab has a delete option, but the default RECENT tab does not.

    The only way to remove foods that you no longer want to appear in your Recent list is to keep a backlog of only a few days in your diary, like seven, and delete all other entries.This will shorten your recent list to a more manageable level. If you must save diary entries older than seven days, save them in a folder on your desktop as web pages or bitmaps. I hope this helps someone.

    Thank you. I have saved my first six months as an HTML file (NB save as complete, not pure HTML which grabs today no matter what the report shows). I think I'll decide to delete old entries. It has to be done one item at a time, right? :grumble:

    Easiest thing to do is just custom-make all your foods so that you can delete and edit as needed. If you ate a bag of cheetos one weekend and you know that you almost never eat Cheetos, then you can easily delete it after that weekend. Then just always use your My Foods tab.

    I pretty much never use entries that I haven't created myself.

    Same here. I'm not sharing with anybody anymore!
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