I want to create a CLI application that tracks food transactions much like ledger/hledger does for plain text accounting .

It will need to read and write to a text file.

It will need to know about where the text file lives. We can setup an environment variable like hledger does.

Some examples that already exist #

• hranoprovod-cli
  • Quantified self tool written in Go

An example of using Ledger to track calories:

• calories-ledger

  • This is the type of usage I envision for this app. For whatever reason using method similar to the ledger style of recording food intake just makes sense to me.

• calories

  • Another Go project

Planning #

I’ll probably want a config file of some kind with stats like height, weight, age, etc to calculate BMR (Basic Metabolic Rate?).