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Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by smusamashah »

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/

Looks like improved version of CCalc

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by fish45 »

erk__ wrote: post #44
imaginamundo wrote: post #35

I use a lot and tried to build a simple version for the browser (to use on windows). Not even remotely close to feature set but still works on basic stuffs. https://imaginamundo.github.io/math-notes/

Another similar web app is CalcuLaTeX https://mkhan45.github.io/CalcuLaTeX-Web/

Hey, that's me.

I think Numi's more oriented towards a general calculator, whereas CalcuLaTeX is more for longer form problems or documents, although I know that at least a few people use it like a scratchpad. I'll definitely take some inspiration from Numi though.

By the way, the new website for CalcuLaTeX is https://calcula.tech

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by geoelectric »

ansk wrote: post #67
apazzolini wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're using OS X, try using Spotlight or Alfred directly (Keypirinha[0] is a reasonable Windows alternative) - just type in `1 + 2` and you get the answer without launching a special app. There are plugins for conversions as well. [0]. https://keypirinha.com/

Spotlight correctly interprets numerical expressions, but it also treats them as search queries for the entire filesystem, resulting in an expensive retrieval process after every keystroke. It's the most convenient, so I use it anyways, but the end result is that cpu starts to overheat for a query as simple as 1 + 2.

Think Alfred may be more efficient here, since I've never noticed that issue at all.

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by jffry »

holistio wrote: post #93

So that's $25 for Spotlight, or am I missing something?

For how I use it, it lives inbetween Spotlight and Numbers. Here's examples of the types of things I can recall using Numi for in the recent past: https://i.imgur.com/u4EdGbr.png

It's list of features is quite extensive: https://github.com/nikolaeu/numi/wiki/Documentation

Plus I don't mind paying for a simple, high-quality tool that I use all the time!

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by nerdponx »

cprecioso wrote: post #66
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!

And! the parser and calculator engine is free to use for personal projects. It is an extremely pleasant SDK to use, and super powerful. https://github.com/soulverteam/SoulverCore

I love this model. Open source the library/SDK, then build your own paid application on top of it.

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by xixixao »

Took a long time to start, crashed on first save (~losing all my work in that session~ it's back! weird bugs). Some glitches with the parsing. But it is so lovely! We should build an open source version.
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