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Decipad – Like Notion with problem-solving capabilities

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Re: Decipad – Like Notion with problem-solving capabilities

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Post by melony »

johnhenry wrote: post #7
g-camargo wrote: post #2

I've been working on Decipad. It's a low-code notebook to tell stories with numbers and build interactive models. It's like Notion with spreadsheet-like capabilities. You can build and publish interactive notebooks for things like forecasting, burn rate, a mortgage calculator, or just something fun. We're testing with early access users. Would be grateful for any feedback if you're interested! Decipad.com

Is this like formulas ( https://www.notion.so/help/formulas ) on steroids?

I think it's more like https://causal.app

Re: Decipad – Like Notion with problem-solving capabilities

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Post by KMnO4 »

Rafsark wrote: post #12

That's probably something I would see "on-top" of Notion. I really like the formulas on steroid, but having another tool inside the company is a bit painful. Notion team could authorize add-ons built on top...

OTOH, I'm desperate for a tool that's "like Notion, but better", where my primary definition of "better" is that it's not slow/bloated.

If this is lightweight AND has these cool data modelling features then I'm on board.

Re: Decipad – Like Notion with problem-solving capabilities

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Post by jitl »

Rafsark wrote: post #12

That's probably something I would see "on-top" of Notion. I really like the formulas on steroid, but having another tool inside the company is a bit painful. Notion team could authorize add-ons built on top...

Maybe one day! I’d like us to do something like this but it’s probably more than a year in the future.

Re: Decipad – Like Notion with problem-solving capabilities

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Post by k__ »

Rafsark wrote: post #12

That's probably something I would see "on-top" of Notion. I really like the formulas on steroid, but having another tool inside the company is a bit painful. Notion team could authorize add-ons built on top...

If it less laggy than Notion, that would already be enough for me.

Re: Decipad – Like Notion with problem-solving capabilities

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Post by r2sk5t »

Congrats! Whether it's Notion, Google Docs/Sheet/Slides, Coda, Figma, Adobe Cloud, iCloud, Slack, Google Drive, One Drive, etc. the issue for me is content management and SSO. There is a high bar to get anointed to manage content inside a company/team.

For example, we use Office 365 and OneDrive for file management. But, I prefer Keynote over PowerPoint. Saving Keynote to OneDrive folders works perfectly fine. Of course that means anyone who wants to edit my documents needs OneDrive and Keynote, but that's reasonable for our team.

To use Decipad, Notion, Coda, Google Docs etc. We would need a way to manage the documents in OneDrive, an authentication mechanism so that the documents can be open and edited from OneDrive. Whether it's OneDrive, Box, DropBox, or GDrive my issue might be the same for others.

Just rewrite the software to run on Mac & Windows and save documents as files, and then we would give it a try :-)

Re: Decipad – Like Notion with problem-solving capabilities

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Post by ryanianian »

skybrian wrote: post #10

Too bad the documentation isn’t online. What does it use for formulas? How do you share notebooks? Do you need the app to view them? I’m pretty happy with Observable’s notebooks. It means you need to know JavaScript, though, and furthermore learn Observable’s quirks [1] and a plotting library. [1] https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/observables-not-javas...

Ya, weird. The landing page gives almost no information about what it's like to actually use it. Not even an example workbook/file to tinker with the possible finished-products.
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