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Re: Show HN: Figr.app – a multi-user, notepad style calculator (desktop app)

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Post by nordicio »

Looks great!

If you are looking for an iOS/iPadOS app my own Kalkyl 3 includes support for shared documents with real-time collaboration.

You don’t input text (but there’s of course keyboard support), instead you input tokens so that e.g sin is one token just like the digits. WYSIWYG editing with raised exponents, root-overbars. Arbitrarily complex unit conversions (e.g USD/ft^2 to EUR/m^2 is a single conversion) and dimensional analysis.

The app is free, but the document features are for pay (with a free trial):

https://apps.apple.com/se/app/kalkyl/id519933025?l=en

Re: Show HN: Figr.app – a multi-user, notepad style calculator (desktop app)

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Post by illiac786 »

armchairhacker wrote: post #7

I wish there were more apps like this which let you just type text and make/do things. Just make everything a sort of real-time coding. It's often much faster to do stuff with text and keyboard than any fancy GUI. Other examples: sequencediagram.net, SwiftUI and React to some extent, vim directory managers (e.g. some let you rename files just by editing text and delete them just by deleting lines) The only issue is,…

Well, top of my mind, there’s Numi and Soulver which are quite similar. There’s lot of such apps I have the impression.

Re: Show HN: Figr.app – a multi-user, notepad style calculator (desktop app)

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Post by alsajjad »

avdlinde wrote: post #41
jklp wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree about the "just type in text" paradigm though I feel they suffer from the "empty state" problem. You can see I tried to mitigate with the "blank sheet" placeholder text, and on web there're templates available. Unfortunately it appears only a fraction of users use the templates, and of course users never read the placeholder text! I haven't heard of immediate / retained mode before - interesting concept! Figr i…

How about using something like NaN instead of 0? To not have a small set of calculations being all 0 and missing from a larger end result (which would go to NaN instead).

Nice!

Re: Show HN: Figr.app – a multi-user, notepad style calculator (desktop app)

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Post by 88840-8855 »

It looks great. So far I have been using Numi and I can see a few advantages and disadvantages in both apps.

Numi:

+ lightweight

+ very fast start

- tabs are a paid feature

Figr:

+ variables

+ tabs

- slow start compared to Numi

- cannot customize the icon bar

What both apps dont have and what I am looking for: A super lightweight excel-like tables app to do basic calculations with formulas behind the cells. Do you know anything like that, guys?

Re: Show HN: Figr.app – a multi-user, notepad style calculator (desktop app)

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Post by jklp »

krstffr wrote: post #43

Hi, looks super cool! Just some quick feedback from the first things I tried in the app (which did not work). It has to do with currency conversion: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/93975/191202587-9b...

Ahh interesting thanks for letting me know - I'll look to get that fixed in the next version!

Re: Show HN: Figr.app – a multi-user, notepad style calculator (desktop app)

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Post by rkangel »

swissswiss wrote: post #56
smusamashah wrote: post #54

There are a few more calculators in the similar spirit shared on HN before. - https://bbodi.github.io/notecalc3/notecalc - https://dedo.io/ - https://notepadcalculator.com/

- https://number.dev

It's actually https://numbr.dev
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