Turn a grocery list photo into a route-ordered todo list
A commenter has Claude convert a photo of a blackboard grocery list into a phone todo list ordered by an efficient route through the store, using the taught store layout. ·
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- What they did
- They write the household shopping list on a blackboard, snap a photo, and send it to Claude, which turns it into a phone todo list with emojis and reorders the items for the walk through their local supermarket. The person had to teach Claude the store once by giving a logical item order for the small store’s fixed entrance-to-exit path, including rules like produce first, frozen last, and heavy items before delicate ones.
- How it went
- The result is a list ordered to match their store route rather than a generic grocery list. The source gives no time or accuracy numbers, and it depends on a one-time manual setup because no public store map was available.
- Worth knowing
- The key catch is that they had to train it manually once, but only because the store is small and follows a mostly predefined path.
Try it yourself with Claude
Here's a photo of my handwritten grocery list. Turn it into a checklist I can paste into my phone's todo app, ordered as an efficient walking route through [store name]. The store layout is: [aisle order or section descriptions]. Group items by section, flag anything you couldn't read, and ask me about unclear items before finalizing the list.
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Source: Reddit · Sep 11, 2026
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