[HN Gopher] Patera - Dynamic Documents
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       Patera - Dynamic Documents
        
       Author : thunderbong
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2021-08-29 18:41 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (patera.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (patera.io)
        
       | infinite8s wrote:
       | The sad thing is the website is basically just a glass pane
       | showing static images. You can't even interact with any of their
       | demo documents (and I assume the underlying tech is such that
       | most of the work happens client-side).
        
       | AnthonBerg wrote:
       | Looks quite a bit like GRID: https://grid.is/
       | 
       | Down to the font style and example. Kinda not cool imo.
       | -\\_(tsu)_/-
        
       | yboris wrote:
       | Reminds me of _Tangle_ (reactive documents) by Bret Victor
       | 
       | http://worrydream.com/Tangle/
        
         | dunham wrote:
         | Tangle reminds me of mavo.io, although tango is older. I think
         | Mavo aims for more UI heavy stuff (display and editing of
         | structured data) and can read/write a backing store.
         | 
         | I thought I saw something else very similar to tangle years
         | ago, but maybe it was tangle. It'd be interesting to try to do
         | something like tangle from a markdown source.
         | 
         | From the web page, Patera looks similar to coda.io - a wysiwyg
         | editor that tries to expand spreadsheet-like programming to
         | documents.
        
       | gravypod wrote:
       | I'm a huge fan of assistive note pads. I wish the one I use was
       | more stable and supported multiple files and more solvers:
       | https://parnold-x.github.io/nasc/
       | 
       | Hopefully more tools like this and the OP come out.
        
       | armchairhacker wrote:
       | This looks cool.
       | 
       | It's like Excel but instead of a spreadsheet you have a document.
       | Some numbers in the document can be adjusted and other numbers
       | get recalculated from them.
       | 
       | It could also work as a template for e.g. legal documents, where
       | you fill in some text and the rest is boilerplate. And some of
       | the text which is numbers e.g. finances gets automatically
       | calculated from what you input.
        
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