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How Preferences Work
Beanlist looks at the coffees you’ve rated and finds the roasters, origins, processing methods, and varieties you tend to rate highest.
Each row shows your actual average rating and the number of bags behind it.
Example: 2.8 (4) means you rated that item 2.8 out of 3 mugs, across 4 bags.
The colored bar shows the mix of your ratings:
Green = LovedGold = OkayRust = Avoid
To keep very small samples from taking over your preferences, Beanlist uses a weighted average when sorting. Items with fewer than 3 bags can still appear, but items with more ratings are treated as more reliable.
The numbers shown are your actual averages. The weighted average only helps decide the order.
How your flavor profile works
Every bag you rate feeds a flavor profile built entirely on your device. Nothing is sent anywhere, and no taste data is shared.
Beanlist reads three things from each bag: the tasting notes you write, the notes printed on the bag, and what its origin, process and variety typically taste like. Your own notes count for the most, printed notes next, and the origin or process guess counts for the least.
Those become scores across ten flavor families, weighted by how you rated the bag. A Wow pulls a flavor toward you, an Avoid pushes it away, so disliking a bag never builds a preference for it.
Detail unlocks as you log more. Under 3 rated bags the profile stays brewing. From there it shows flavor families, then subcategories, and finally specific notes once at least 3 bags support the same one.
In the profile, card size is rank: your three strongest families get the big rows, and the smallest cards are the ones with the least behind them. The words under each family are your strongest specific notes for it. When a family has no notes of its own yet, they describe what that family generally tastes like rather than anything your bags proved.
Best bets suggests one origin, one process and one variety, picked from the attributes contributing most to the flavors you rate highest.
Why I made this
I created BeanList because I wanted an easy way to keep track of the coffee I was drinking and remember which bags and roasters I liked and which ones I didn't. I was also curious whether I might discover that I preferred coffee from a particular origin or variety.
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