How can I use Foodnoms with Siri and Shortcuts app?

Foodnoms offers deep support for Siri and the Shortcuts app, making nutrition tracking easier and customizable to your needs. You can log food, gather insights, and automate your tracking routine using Siri commands, automatically-created App Shortcuts, and a suite of powerful shortcut actions.

Whether you want to streamline food logging or build advanced automations, Foodnoms gives you the flexibility to track your nutrition your way.

Table of Contents

• Siri

• App Shortcuts

• Spotlight

• Shortcuts

  • Running
  • Actions
  • Custom Shortcuts

Siri

You can ask Siri to interact with Foodnoms using pre-defined set of App Shortcuts that are automatically available as soon as the app is installed.

To see what commands are available with Foodnoms, ask Siri “What can I do here?” while the app is open.

Siri can trigger any of these commands on-demand using voice or Type to Siri, navigating you throughout the app or asking you to fill in relevant information when needed for actions like logging.

Foodnoms also goes beyond the basics and provides dynamic options for relevant actions, where you can “pre-fill” the command with the main option you’d normally be asked to fill in.

For example, with Check Goal Progress, the Foodnoms automatically generates Check Calorie Goal, Check Protein Goal, and so on, depending on which goals you have set up – that way you can check a specific goal right away instead of being asked each time. Plus, as you add or remove content or goals within the app, the commands update accordingly as well.

App Shortcuts

Foodnoms offers a set of predefined App Shortcuts that enable quick and efficient interactions without any configuration.

The full list of commands available for Siri is found inside the Shortcuts app under the App Shortcuts section, in Foodnoms’ dedicated category. Here, you can see the set of functions, each including multiple dynamic options for the same command when relevant – you can find the Check Calorie Goal example for Check Goal Progress here.

Each App Shortcut can be run immediately with a single tap. Optionally, long-pressing or right-clicking on an App Shortcuts provides a context menu, with options to Add to Home Screen or create a New Shortcut using that action.

Additionally, the top-right corner includes an Information menu with the option to enable or disable Foodnoms’ Siri support – if you’re having trouble using App Shortcuts, make sure this is toggled on.

In Foodnoms’ Settings, you’ll also find a Shortcut Link – when pressed, Shortcuts will open directly to the Foodnoms folder of App Shortcuts.

Foodnoms provides nine App Shortcuts, including different dynamic options where relevant:

1. Open Scanner
2. Open AI
3. Quick Entry
4. Search
5. Open Foodnoms
   • Food Log
   • Library
   • Goals
   • Settings
6. Log
   • Food
   • Recipe
   • Meal
   • Favorite
   • Drink
7. Check Goal Progress
   • Dynamic list of your Goals
8. Log Favorites
   • Dynamic list of your Favorites
9. Copy Logged Food
   • Dynamic list of your Meal Types

Spotlight

In addition to Siri and App Shortcuts, Foodnoms also surfaces the same functionality in Spotlight search so you can activate them without using voice or opening the Shortcuts app. After tapping the Search icon on the Home Screen, you can look for anything by name and activate it right away.

In Spotlight, you can find Foodnoms’ App Shortcuts and their dynamic options, from basic actions like Log or Check Goal to your own content like Food, Recipes, and Meals – all your data and their associated actions are securely shared with the system for you to access.

When searching for Foodnoms, you’ll see the first three Top Hits alongside the Foodnoms icon. By default, you’ll see the first few from the app – if you have custom shortcuts, those will show up first.

Below Top Hits, you’ll see relevant results for your actions and goals, identifiable with unique symbols down the right side. If you have custom shortcuts, those will also appear below – tap the button with the ellipses to open the custom shortcut immediately to see and edit its functionality.

Shortcuts

Beyond what’s available in Siri, Spotlight, and App Shortcuts, Foodnoms also provides a robust offering of actions for the Shortcuts app, including separate sets for Food, Recipes, Meals, Logging, and Meal Types each.

With Foodnoms and Shortcuts, you can find, get, create, duplicate, edit, delete, open, or show almost everything related to food tracking – the possibilities for automation have expanded exponentially.

With that expansion comes some complexity, however, so here are some tips for best using Foodnoms with the Shortcuts app:

Running

Part of Shortcuts’ depth comes from the variety of ways a single shortcut can be run – make sure to check out the examples from the Shortcuts User Guide  to help put all this functionality to good use:

• Run a shortcut from the app 
• Run shortcuts with Siri 
• Run shortcuts from Control Center 
• Run shortcuts with the Action button 
• Run shortcuts with Apple Pencil Pro 
• Run app shortcuts 
• Run shortcuts from the Home Screen widget 
• Run shortcuts from the Search screen 
• Add a shortcut to the Home Screen 
• Launch a shortcut from another app 
• Run shortcuts from Apple Watch 
• Run shortcuts by tapping the back of your iPhone 

Actions

In the Shortcuts app, you’ll find a robust set of 44 actions for Foodnoms within 8 categories: Foodnoms, Food, Goals, Library, Log, Meal Types, Meals, and Recipes.

See the full page of available Actions here.

These Foodnoms actions can often be used standalone, where Shortcuts will prompt you to fill out any required information. These can also be used in combination with other actions from Shortcuts, whether from other apps or the build in Scripting tools.

As you build with Foodnoms’ actions, it’s important to learn more about actions in complicated shortcuts  like Ask for Input and Choose From List, as well as more advanced concepts like variables .

Plus, if this isn’t something you want to learn more about, that’s okay – that’s where the App Shortcuts and Siri support let you take advantage of this functionality without building anything yourself.

Custom Shortcuts

In order to demonstrate what’s possible with Foodnoms’ actions, here is a suite of custom shortcuts already built-out for you to download and start running, as well as learn from.

To start, below are several custom shortcuts to showcase how to achieve the most common tasks, how to use past nutritional data to inform future choices, and take advantage of Shortcuts’ Scripting actions to further modify your workflow:

1. Ask Foodnoms AI: Generates a request to Foodnoms AI using a text query, an image, or both. Includes the option to log the result immediately or change the parameters of the request through more prompts. Open 
2. Log with Foodnoms: Shows a menu similar to the Log screen in Foodnoms. Includes options for smart suggestions, generic or branded foods from the Foodnoms Database, and the choice to log using Foodnoms AI, Library foods, Favorites, and Logged Food, as well as create a New Food if nothing else works. Open 
3. Check my daily goals: Gets all your goals for today, asks you to choose which to check, and then repeats through, showing your progress for the day one-by-one. Includes All Goals by default, with the option to deselect any you don't want to check. Open 
4. I need more protein: Checks your Protein goal for how much is remaining, then suggests Food, Recipes, Meals, and Logged Food with the most protein to get you towards your goal. Includes the option to log or open the chosen item. Open 
5. Change goal for cheat day: Presents the option to set a one-day exception for any goal, by showing you the goal amount and asking what value you'd like to change it to. Includes the option to change goals going forward as well. Open 

See the full page of Custom Shortcuts here.