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Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by simonebrunozzi »

cvak wrote: post #164
simonebrunozzi wrote: post #160

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I keep hearing about Alfred, and frankly I don't know why but I'm missing the reasons why so many people rave about it. I've tried it only once, a while ago, and perhaps I wasn't in the right mood to appreciate it. Does anyone here uses it, and can ELI5 to me why Alfred is so good?

My personal highlights from using it: - you can control your whole machine with it, so I don't have to use mouse anymore for - sleep/shut down/volume/ - extra indexing for folders/documents/images - web search in different sites (gmail/wiki/amazon,....) - clipboard history - snippets (ascii art for luls ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, but most importantly I use this for script snippets I need to use in some UIs/ when I'm remote in some v…

Interesting. Thanks for sharing it. You just re-ignited my desire to try it out again :)

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by elcritch »

bbodi wrote: post #149
elcritch wrote: post #77

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How difficult would something like this be to port to Visual Studio? P.S. looks like a great app!

author here: I have zero experience with Visual Studio API, and honestly, looking at what a giant and slow mess VS became, I would not even try it :) But providing a standalone desktop/terminal version is on the list.

Ah, desktop/terminal would be awesome! It's just too easy to loose track of browser tabs. :-)

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by vargasz »

bbodi wrote: post #148
vargasz wrote: post #100

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What would it take to have this as a desktop app? As I see it it is rust and wasm. It would be nice to have some note about the architecture in the docs, maybe someone would pick it up to make a desktop app from it too.

Hi, it would not be hard at all, at the moment for me it would be like 1 day of work. Honestly, I just don't see its benefit, you can always open it on a dedicated browser and use it as it would be a desktop app. However, in the next release I might provide a desktop version.

Well, I prefer to use browsers as, well browsers instead of app hosts..., to many tabs, too many distractions, and not that fast )the whole browser, not a given page).

Just using an app that I can open and close anytime is much preferable to me. Currently using speedcrunch for this, but your solution looks a bit more feature full and maybe a good middle-ground between a calculator and just firing up ipython or similar.

All in all a desktop version would be much appreciated, but I understand if it's not a focus for you. For the technical part: what do you think, what would you use in rust to turn this intu a regular gui app?

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Post by kebman »

Razengan wrote: post #157
kebman wrote: post #140

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Why not. I use Chrome to make quick calculations all the time. Just Ctrl+N and 1+1, and the answer is posted. Then Ctrl+W, and/or Alt+Tab to Sublime or whatever. Then I continue with my life :)

On macOS, Cmd+Space and just do calculations in the Spotlight search bar.

I also use Windoze, that's why I prefer the Chrome way.

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by toomim »

unhammer wrote: post #159
toomim wrote: post #124

I would totally use this if it were an extension to Emacs. I keep lots of calculation results in text files, and edit them in emacs, but I don't want to use a totally separate app whenever I want to enter and calculate some math within a text file.

Try https://blog.sulami.xyz/posts/literate-calc-mode/ I use it quite often, very handy

Wow cool! I'm sold! Downloading it now. :)
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