hkaju
Probably the best way to develop your taste and understand the spectrum of different coffees available is to do comparative tasting aka try a small number of coffees in parallel to compare and contrast. I was having trouble finding tasting sets so I started freezing a little portion of every coffee bag I bought to create a collection for doing these tastings at home.
I needed something to keep track of them all (as well as my tasting notes in general) so instead of using a spreadsheet I built a full app for it. The app supports NFC-tagged containers which I've found to make my workflow a whole lot easier.
I also set up an online store to sell the NFC-equipped single-dosing tubes: https://store.coffeelibrary.app Planning on adding more containers that work well with the app in the future.
When the lockdown started, I noticed I had a two food-related problems: 1) I was used to stopping by the grocery store more or less every day on my way home from work so I had no habit of planning ahead for more than a few days at a time. 2) In order to fit a week+ worth of food in my apartment, I had to distribute it between a few nooks and crannies which made it difficult to track what items I had where.
To help transition to my new once-a-week shopping schedule, I used Trello at first but that quickly grew unmanageable. So I decided to spend some time to build myself the right tool for the job. I realized other people may have run into the same issues I had so I tought I’d release it to the App Store.