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

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Post by unhammer »

tuxychandru wrote: post #39
jklp wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was waiting for this question :) I think it should be quite straight forward but it's more the deployment and maintenance I'm conscious of. Mac and Windows (to an extent) both have app stores which can handle hosting, auto-updates, etc, though for Linux I'd have to build a bit of that myself. That also complicates platform specific dev / testing / deployment, and as this is a side project I'm conscious of time. But…

If the primary concern is the lack of a common packaging format/app store, please consider publishing to https://flathub.org/ . It should solve these for you across all distributions. Testing should also be simpler as most of your dependencies will bundled and testing in one distribution should suffice.

Alternatively https://appimage.org/

As a user, I much prefer AppImage – snap/flatpack feel like adding another app store to my system, while AppImage is just download and run.

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

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Post by ernestipark »

I've wanted to build something like this for a long time because I tend to use normal notes for a lot of basic calculations (e.g. personal finances, budgeting, etc) that don't require a spreadsheet, so this is really cool. But I probably wouldn't use this because there's a lot of intertia to just continue using my existing notes apps (Mac Notes mostly) because of the ease of syncing and integration into rest of the ecosystem. I wish this could be just a plugin to stuff I already have so its not another app I have to use.

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

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Post by iamgopal »

fatih-erikli wrote: post #49

I use Python program for that It works pretty fine Example $ python >>> weeklyprice=4000 >>> dailyprice=weeklyprice/7 >>> februaryprice=dailyprice\*28 >>> februaryprice 15988

years ago, I did something OP did, with embedding python, and whole page have tree type hierarchy with parent can access child pages and child have read only access to parent values. python is awesome.

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

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Post by escot »

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,…

If you'd like a flowchart editor that's keyboard-first you can try what I've made here: https://www.knotend.com.

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

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Post by geesejuggler »

Cool! Looks promising!

Some UI/UX remarks...

- I would expect to find the 'new sheet' option near the sheet list (on top or on the bottom perhaps?).

- Creating a new sheet does not give an empty sheet (instead it presents the same info as in the preloaded example).

- How do you deal with different notations for numbers? Can I switch somewhere from #,###.## to #.###,##?

- Operators and currency is now displayed in gray, just like the comments. This hurts legibility more than it helps focus.

- When you can detect unit indicators, maybe allow users to click on them to change the unit to another (compatible variant). For example change kilometers to yards.

- Header and sub-header styles are quite similar, makes them hard to discern.

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

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Post by ksec »

There is a few things I wanted but mostly missing in these type of calculators. More Units.

K for Thousands, M for Million, B for Billion and T for Trillion.

Some Calculators either dont offer these, or they do but with different Letters representation because M, B and T are used for something else. IMO this seems backwards because those are the most common unit in analysis.

Other Units including PB for Petabytes, TB. GB, MB, KB, as well as Mbps to Gbps unit conversion. us, ms, ns, for Latency calculation.

Getting Market Cap, P/E data etc from Yahoo Finance.

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

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Post by lake_vincent »

medv wrote: post #47
4silvertooth wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had been looking for such an application, but than I decided to build one myself that suffice my needs, here is the repo https://github.com/4silvertooth/QwikTape

Nice, I created my own: https://numbr.dev

"Figr", "Numbr"...

I'm starting to think you guys don't like vowels at the end of your words.

Next up: Calculatr

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

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Post by geesejuggler »

geesejuggler wrote: post #67

Cool! Looks promising! Some UI/UX remarks... - I would expect to find the 'new sheet' option near the sheet list (on top or on the bottom perhaps?). - Creating a new sheet does not give an empty sheet (instead it presents the same info as in the preloaded example). - How do you deal with different notations for numbers? Can I switch somewhere from #,###.## to #.###,##? - Operators and currency is now displayed in gra…

- When editing the sheet name in the left panel, I could drag the sheet's location into it's text field.

- Would it be possible to edit the sheet title when clicking on the title itself (in the right panel)? Maybe show a pencil indicating this possibility.

- Local time format is not reflected in the sheet's modification time. What will happen if I share the sheet, will it reflect the latest modification time for all users or my latest modification / view? What I am trying to say is: is there a way for me to see if there are changes I have not seen?

- A little bit of hierarchy or tagging might help those with lots of sheets in the future.

- Exporting and printing options? :)

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