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Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by Toutouxc »

sushisource wrote: post #16

Why is it that OSX gets so many of these nice little apps that seem pretty easy to make multiplatform but they just... aren't?

Not a macOS dev, just a customer. The thing I value about the platform is that there are lots of these so called "boutique" apps. Apps that do a single thing and do it extremely well, with a great, native UI, with Mac keyboard shortcuts and all the behavior you'd expect on a Mac. And since your average Mac user cares a bit more about the experience and aesthetics and is, let's face it, usually a bit more affluent than your average PC user, there has always been a market for those and it's become a bit of a self-fulfilling marketing. Mac users expect apps to be focused and good looking and Mac devs know that even smaller apps are viable on the platform if done well, so the platform is actually full of those nice little apps and people come to the Mac for the experience.

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Post by danpalmer »

mikewhy wrote: post #17
danpalmer wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you mean dashboard widgets? Dashboard hasn't been actively developed in maybe 10 years now. If you were still using it I'm interested to know why – I stopped because it felt clunky to use and there weren't many widgets. I'm not sure it's much of a criticism of an app if they don't have a Dashboard widget.

Widgets in Big Sur are not the same as the old Dashboard: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211789

Yes I'm aware. The comment referred to widget removal in Big Sur though, and the only "widgets" I can think of that were removed were Dashboard widgets.

Big Sur/iOS 14 widgets don't support interactivity beyond single clicks, so I don't see any way a Numi widget would be of any benefit.

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Post by coldtea »

peterloron wrote: post #55
reid wrote: post #3

Soulver is a similar app for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS with shared documents in iCloud Drive. Check it out if you’re looking for something like this to go!

AFAIK, Soulver is only for MacOS...

Nope, I have it on iOS.

But they've pulled the old version off the iOS store for the meantime before releasing the new version.

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by coldtea »

layoutIfNeeded wrote: post #46
lordleft wrote: post #37

I find that calculators remain weirdly unergonomic on most Operating Systems. There are so many times where I want to do some quick math but feel hobbled by the insistence of calculator software writers to ape physical calculator design -- Numi seems like a cool step in the right direction

I didn’t even know there’s a calculator app on macOS. I simply write formulas into Spotlight, and if I need history or variables or anything serious I launch an Octave prompt.

The built-in macOS calculator also has scientific and progamming modes, and even RPN.

There's also Grapher, macOS built-in equation plotter.

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Post by Darmody »

0x_rs wrote: post #53
lordleft wrote: post #37

I find that calculators remain weirdly unergonomic on most Operating Systems. There are so many times where I want to do some quick math but feel hobbled by the insistence of calculator software writers to ape physical calculator design -- Numi seems like a cool step in the right direction

I've found programs such as SpeedCrunch[0] to be extremely more comfortable to use than calculators imitating "classic" designs. [0] https://speedcrunch.org/

Speedcrunch is one of the apps that I always keep open. I just alt+ab to it when I need something and do some quick operations with the numerical keyboard and it's able to handle stuff for programming and CS in general.
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