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Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator

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Re: Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator

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Post by jszymborski »

keroro wrote: post #89
gabipurcaru wrote: post #31

I wrote https://dedo.io/ as a web version of this, since there's no good equivalent for linux

Have you seen NaSC? https://parnold-x.github.io/nasc/

Wow, that seems super cool.

A little tangential, but also really cool how elementary os is really coming to be the MacOS alternative it has set out to be.

Re: Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator

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Post by guan »

pkamb wrote: post #81

Soulver is great, but there's one feature that seriously makes me hate using it. I often open up "scratchpad" text documents. I Paste some text, edit it, Select All, then Cut. I press CMD-W to close the window. Because the document is blank, I'm not prompted to save the unsaved File. If I try to do the same thing with Soulver, when I close the (blank) window the app pops up a modal dialog asking me where I want to sa…

There is a setting for “Suppress save warning for unsaved documents”. Would this address your need, or do you only want to suppress the modal when the document is blank?

I have the setting left on because I am also annoyed by this, and I rarely need to save my Soulver documents.

Re: Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator

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Post by nekopa »

crooked-v wrote: post #77

I wish there was an app like this that would work with dense text with embedded math, so I could use it for tabletop game character sheets.

Maybe try to use this from a comment elsewhere in this thread:

build your own reactive editor or content with data streams using TagleJS: http://worrydream.com/Tangle/ and it is open source. :)

Re: Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator

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Post by chipotle_coyote »

eswat wrote: post #51
chipotle_coyote wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty sure that's a price reduction. I think Soulver used to be either $19.99 or $24.99; Soulver 3 is a price increase (although not unreasonable). However, it doesn't sync with Soulver for iOS yet. I suspect Soulver 3 will probably come to the Mac App Store once the iOS app is updated to use the new file format.

Are you sure? Looking at my Soulver macOS receipt I did purchase it for $10 in 2012. I can't tell if it was a sale price but would be coincidental to have the same price cut 7-years apart.

I was not sure, and you have made me go dig up my invoice to check. To my surprise, I actually found it. :)

And, the single-user license I have from June 20, 2010, was for... $24.95!

Maybe it was on sale when you bought it, or maybe the price dropped substantially after I bought it.

Re: Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator

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Post by UncleSlacky »

badatshipping wrote: post #19

The funny thing is that Excel would basically meet this need perfectly if it didn’t take 5 seconds to open.

An updated version of Vistacalc (an old shareware Excel-alike) would probably open really quickly.

https://www.danielsays.com/ssg-win1x2x3xsw-vc10.html http://www.win3x.org/win3board/ext/win3x/download.php?id=112...

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