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Re: Show HN: NoteCalc

#21

Some feedback: it fills my browser history with a lot of entries.

Thanks, you are right, I did not notice but yes it could be annoying.

The reason is that the content of the note is stored in the URL so it is easy to share it by sending the url to friends. So the URL changes basically on every modification.

I add it to the fixlist.

Re: Show HN: NoteCalc

#23
post #18

Love this, but the lack of interpretation of prefixed currency symbols is absolutely maddening! That it simply ignores the number and operand with no indication that these elements are ignored could easily lead to problems. I don't think I could in good conscience trust myself or those I might consider to be the target audience of this app to notice parsing errors in every case. Consider: "$400 / 20" => 20 (ERROR) "$…

Your comment made me realize that most unit notation I'm familiar with has the unit as a suffix, with currency being the only standout that comes to mind.

Re: Show HN: NoteCalc

#24
post #21

Some feedback: it fills my browser history with a lot of entries.

Thanks, you are right, I did not notice but yes it could be annoying. The reason is that the content of the note is stored in the URL so it is easy to share it by sending the url to friends. So the URL changes basically on every modification. I add it to the fixlist.

If you aren't interested in the history, perhaps you should be replacing the state instead of adding to it? Without looking at the code, it seems like an easy fix.

Re: Show HN: NoteCalc

#25
post #18

Love this, but the lack of interpretation of prefixed currency symbols is absolutely maddening! That it simply ignores the number and operand with no indication that these elements are ignored could easily lead to problems. I don't think I could in good conscience trust myself or those I might consider to be the target audience of this app to notice parsing errors in every case. Consider: "$400 / 20" => 20 (ERROR) "$…

In your case syntax highlighting helps. Everything which is not part of a calculation is rendered as a simple text (greyish): [image](https://trello-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/558a94779b3b3c5d...)

But yes I admit it takes some time to get used to the colors and their meanings.

Currencies and exchange between them are on my feature list btw.

Re: Show HN: NoteCalc

#26
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, you are right, I did not notice but yes it could be annoying. The reason is that the content of the note is stored in the URL so it is easy to share it by sending the url to friends. So the URL changes basically on every modification. I add it to the fixlist.

If you aren't interested in the history, perhaps you should be replacing the state instead of adding to it? Without looking at the code, it seems like an easy fix.

Yes this will be, thanks :)

Re: Show HN: NoteCalc

#27
post #23
post #18

Love this, but the lack of interpretation of prefixed currency symbols is absolutely maddening! That it simply ignores the number and operand with no indication that these elements are ignored could easily lead to problems. I don't think I could in good conscience trust myself or those I might consider to be the target audience of this app to notice parsing errors in every case. Consider: "$400 / 20" => 20 (ERROR) "$…

Your comment made me realize that most unit notation I'm familiar with has the unit as a suffix, with currency being the only standout that comes to mind.

It depends on the currency / country, too. Lots of countries put the currency afterwards, even "¢" comes after. $ and £ come before, but € ends up moving depending on the language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_and_the_euro#Written_...

Re: Show HN: NoteCalc

#28
post #8

Link to the public instance: https://bbodi.github.io/notecalc3/notecalc It took me a couple clicks to find, a link in the readme would be useful. It's an awesome tool, I think I will use this a lot. It cover 95% of my WolframAlpha use, with an interface that's both more responsive and let's me keep track of context and streams of thought.

a link in the readme would be useful.

It's there, already. The direct link in the OP are to the release notes

https://github.com/bbodi/notecalc3/blob/develop/README.md

Re: Show HN: NoteCalc

#29
post #23
post #18

Love this, but the lack of interpretation of prefixed currency symbols is absolutely maddening! That it simply ignores the number and operand with no indication that these elements are ignored could easily lead to problems. I don't think I could in good conscience trust myself or those I might consider to be the target audience of this app to notice parsing errors in every case. Consider: "$400 / 20" => 20 (ERROR) "$…

Your comment made me realize that most unit notation I'm familiar with has the unit as a suffix, with currency being the only standout that comes to mind.

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Re: Show HN: NoteCalc

#30
post #18

Love this, but the lack of interpretation of prefixed currency symbols is absolutely maddening! That it simply ignores the number and operand with no indication that these elements are ignored could easily lead to problems. I don't think I could in good conscience trust myself or those I might consider to be the target audience of this app to notice parsing errors in every case. Consider: "$400 / 20" => 20 (ERROR) "$…

It would also be nice to support other currency symbols. In Europe there are € and £, for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_currencies_in_Europe

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