this is turning out to be more of a project than i anticipated.
the purpose of the exercise is to speed up the maintenance of my memory database aka csv files.
in particular writing things as they come to mind and not having to worry about ids would be beneficial.
the way forwards now i feel is to design the form in the first instance
and then the code
request.form()
access data sent via an http post
an http post is method to send data to the server
jinja
flask uses jinja as its templating engine and this is why we seen jinja in the html