Turn a dinner idea into a Google Keep grocery checklist with Gemini
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MakeUseOf's Saikat Basu asked Gemini, with the Keep connector, for a 'week of high-protein vegetarian dinners grocery list' for one person. Gemini created the checklist in Google Keep item by item; he says it was neatly organized, though it didn't group items by produce and pantry within the note.
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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Plan a week of dinners for my diet and save the shopping list as a checklist in Google Keep. Fill in before running: - Diet and goal: [e.g. high-protein vegetarian] - How many people: [NUMBER] - Number of dinners: [e.g. 7] - Pantry staples I already have: [LIST] - Name for the Keep note: [e.g. Groceries – week of DATE] Rules: - List the dinners first (one line each) so I can see what the shopping is for. - Put each item on its own checklist line with a quantity. - Group the checklist under headings: produce, protein, dairy, pantry, frozen. - Don't add pantry staples I said I have. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. - Add estimated protein per serving next to each dinner. Output: A Google Keep checklist note with grouped items and quantities, plus the dinner list in chat. You'll know it worked when: the note appears in Keep, every dinner's ingredients are on it, and items are grouped so I can shop aisle by aisle. Before you finish: re-read my goal and constraints, check your answer against each one, and list anything you assumed or couldn't confirm.
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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Plan a week of dinners for my diet and save the shopping list as a checklist in Google Keep. Fill in before running: - Diet and goal: [e.g. high-protein vegetarian] - How many people: [NUMBER] - Number of dinners: [e.g. 7] - Pantry staples I already have: [LIST] - Name for the Keep note: [e.g. Groceries – week of DATE] Rules: - List the dinners first (one line each) so I can see what the shopping is for. - Put each item on its own checklist line with a quantity. - Group the checklist under headings: produce, protein, dairy, pantry, frozen. - Don't add pantry staples I said I have. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. - Add estimated protein per serving next to each dinner. Output: A Google Keep checklist note with grouped items and quantities, plus the dinner list in chat. You'll know it worked when: the note appears in Keep, every dinner's ingredients are on it, and items are grouped so I can shop aisle by aisle. Before you finish: re-read my goal and constraints, check your answer against each one, and list anything you assumed or couldn't confirm.
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