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Re: Treesheets: cross-platform, free-form data organizer app

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Post by mintplant »

andix wrote: post #7

I like the part where you can do calculations like in classic spread sheet apps, but visualize what your are doing, instead of hiding it behind formula fields. (see this screenshot: http://strlen.com/treesheets/docs/images/screenshots/screens... ) But functionality and especially usability of this application is quite limited. It feels more like a proof of concept, than an application for daily use.

> It feels more like a proof of concept, than an application for daily use.

Speaking personally, I used TreeSheets daily for years (thanks 'Aardappel!) to write and manage my lecture notes, to-do items, daily routine, calendar, shipment tracking, and other life things. I found it a very capable tool with a constrained but thoughtful feature set and particularly excellent keyboard-driven navigation. I only moved away (to org-mode/Orgzly) for mobile support.

Re: Treesheets: cross-platform, free-form data organizer app

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Post by Aardappel »

quag wrote: post #76
Aardappel wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not aware that it is outdated. If you found inaccuracies, please open an issue, or better a yet a PR for the file https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/blob/master/TS/docs/...

By the way! Thanks for Treesheets I love how naturally it helps you when thinking through a topic. I built a Python treesheets cts file to HTML converter so I could quickly see my treesheets along side other notes in my notebooks. Issue created: https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/issues/185 My (partial) parser in Python: https://gist.github.com/quag/e219f69670cd395d4a59a392557df28... If people would like the cur…

Thanks!

Re: Treesheets: cross-platform, free-form data organizer app

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Post by Aardappel »

bsg75 wrote: post #73
Aardappel wrote: post #35

Author of TreeSheets here, AMA.

Does the CI build Windows binaries? I could not find them at https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/actions

Yup, even with or without installer, see last run here: https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/actions/runs/9514897...

Re: Treesheets: cross-platform, free-form data organizer app

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Post by Aardappel »

mikewarot wrote: post #77
Aardappel wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not a DAG though, it is purely a tree (no shared children). There are no cell addresses. You can kinda sorta use it as a spreadsheet, but it is pretty limited currently, see example here http://strlen.com/treesheets/docs/images/screenshots/screens... or also in the tutorial.

Looking through the source I see that a cell can contain a grid, which is a collection of cells, and those can nest. I see why you don't want to worry about addressing cells, it would kill a lot of the utility of the program. What are the tradeoffs in your mind?

I guess I always found the way traditional spreadsheets address cells very clumsy, especially with hidden formulas, and I enjoy inventing new ways of programming :) I can't claim this is better yet, since I haven't used it that much. I like the visible formulas as a programmer, but I could imagine others don't.

Re: Treesheets: cross-platform, free-form data organizer app

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Post by Aardappel »

rajandatta wrote: post #79
Aardappel wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's one of my 10 or so side projects. Sadly while TreeSheets is pretty popular with users, it doesn't attract a lot of programmers to contribute (probably my ancient looking code!).. more of them would help.

What is the technical foundation - language, libraries etc?

C++ and wxWidgets

Re: Treesheets: cross-platform, free-form data organizer app

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Post by agumonkey »

samstave wrote: post #32
codetrotter wrote: post #4

Reminds me vaguely about another piece of open source software that I tried a few years ago; the Leo Editor. An Outliner, Editor, IDE and PIM written in Python. Cross-platform too. https://leoeditor.com/ the homepage of the program, with screenshots. https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor There's a Wikipedia article about it too even. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_(text_editor) Leo means Leonine Editor with Out…

WAAAY back in the 1980s/early 90s there was a file manager called "pathminder" or PMV... It was THE best file manager ever. I could browse my entire hard drive from memory alone via WASD type input and I would know exactly where I was just from memory and key presses... If you ever played the game "The Bards Tale" there was a version, maybe 3 or such, where you could recall exactly the steps taken to get to a specifi…

> pathminder

http://www.symbos.de/mirrors/www.clips64.de/screens/pathfind...

from: https://archive.ph/cZiCx

Re: Treesheets: cross-platform, free-form data organizer app

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Post by yes_but_no »

Aardappel wrote: post #48
taco_emoji wrote: post #40

Not sure I want to download an EXE from a non-SSL site...

The bottom download link points you to GitHub, where you can get exes straight from CI, if you trust that more. I've looked into getting https from my site, but there's always a high cost associated, if you want a certificate that's widely accepted (which doesn't seem to hold for the free ones). And I think my host isn't even compatible with free ones. If the web wants HTTPS everywhere, this somehow needs to be made…

If you are able to put a Caddy webserver in front of your website, it's quite easy using its automatic ssl feature[0]

[0]https://caddyserver.com/docs/automatic-https

Re: Treesheets: cross-platform, free-form data organizer app

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Post by yardshop »

Aardappel wrote: post #35

Author of TreeSheets here, AMA.

Wondering if there's a chance that you might have a Windows 32-bit version available somewhere for my ancient Vista machine. Or can the CI create one somehow? Beautiful program, thank you for creating this, and thank you for Sauerbraten!

Re: Treesheets: cross-platform, free-form data organizer app

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Post by Aardappel »

yardshop wrote: post #88
Aardappel wrote: post #35

Author of TreeSheets here, AMA.

Wondering if there's a chance that you might have a Windows 32-bit version available somewhere for my ancient Vista machine. Or can the CI create one somehow? Beautiful program, thank you for creating this, and thank you for Sauerbraten!

I'm sorry, I removed support for 32-bit a while ago. While the code could probably be made to run on 32-bit still without too much trouble, it be quite a bit of work to reintroduce it.

Re: Treesheets: cross-platform, free-form data organizer app

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Post by yardshop »

Aardappel wrote: post #89
yardshop wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wondering if there's a chance that you might have a Windows 32-bit version available somewhere for my ancient Vista machine. Or can the CI create one somehow? Beautiful program, thank you for creating this, and thank you for Sauerbraten!

I'm sorry, I removed support for 32-bit a while ago. While the code could probably be made to run on 32-bit still without too much trouble, it be quite a bit of work to reintroduce it.

I understand, it's the way of things. Do you perhaps have an archive of older releases?
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