Looks really neat. Anyone know of a similar neovim/vim plugin?
Show HN: Figr.app – a multi-user, notepad style calculator (desktop app)
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#72Good job! I spent a while working on a more flexible & real-time version of Frink. Needs to exist.
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#74This is really cool. We're building something similar at Decipad (https://www.decipad.com) would love to hear what you think.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
True. I also have a nice naming for: zx and https://fx.wtf
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#77Congrats on building and launching your app.
However, in my opinion, you need different examples to show the strengths of this app. A lot of the examples on your page look kinda clunky and error-prone to me, and better solved with a spreadsheet.
Take the "personal finance" one. The "total expenses" row lists out all the expenses adding them out one at a time. In a spreadsheet you'd just type =sum(A1:A5). Imagine it wasn't just 5 but 20 items. Now your sum gets pretty unweildy. How confident can you be from looking at that sum that you haven't missed one of the expense items? In a spreadsheet you know pretty clearly that =sum(A1:A20) has all those rows. Better still, if you insert a row to add another item, it'll update the sum for you.
The "Investment returns" sheet is another example. What if I wanted to extend that to 30 years? In a spreadsheet I'd just copy the last row and past it in the the next 10 cells and I'm done. Here's I have to paste it 10 times, and then manually update each row and hope I didn't make a typo anywhere. What if I didn't want my savings to be constant but assume that I'm going to increase savings a year over time?
The unit conversion is somewhat neat though, so maybe examples that use that a bit more?
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#78I use Python program for that It works pretty fine Example $ python >>> weeklyprice=4000 >>> dailyprice=weeklyprice/7 >>> februaryprice=dailyprice\*28 >>> februaryprice 15988
A Jupyter notebook would work in much the same way, and has the advantage of being able to mingle Markdown in with the code.
Neither is as approachable for a non-programmer as the OP, however.
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#79this is super cool good work!
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#80I 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,…
My app https://www.tasktxt.com is a text based todo list with timers. Similar in spirit.
Looks awesome, congratz!