[HN Gopher] QwikTape: Do calculations, annotate like you would o...
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QwikTape: Do calculations, annotate like you would on a paper
Author : stareatgoats
Score : 86 points
Date : 2023-02-11 13:47 UTC (2 days ago)
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| TheDesolate0 wrote:
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| nkcmr wrote:
| I put something like this together: https://solvy.app/ - really
| fun project. my goal was to make it collaborative and real-time.
| Might still do that someday.
| voiper1 wrote:
| Similar/related: https://notepadcalculator.com/
| https://bbodi.github.io/notecalc3/notecalc
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| Although I see those perform the calculation on the side, instead
| of inline. Interesting.
|
| In a related note, I love the cross-platform app SpeedCrunch as a
| "basic" calculator. It has an option to auto-copy the result to
| the clipboard, and you can also set/use variables. It also cold-
| opens immidiately.
| irq-1 wrote:
| This could be a good transition from a spreadsheet to a report. I
| wonder how data binding could work for that?
| 4silvertooth wrote:
| My initial thoughts were how does a spreadsheet do it? but it's
| a different kind of beast.
|
| In search of a parser toolkit I had come across this
| https://github.com/handsontable/hyperformula which uses
| chevrotain to parse spreadsheet formulas and decided to use
| chevrotain for the parsing.
| kholdstayr wrote:
| My favorite calculator is OpalCalc:
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| https://www.skytopia.com/software/opalcalc/
| erichurkman wrote:
| A bit like Numi.app for Mac. Neat.
| joe8756438 wrote:
| I love seeing all the related apps folks are posting. I built one
| myself, Tap [1], and can confirm: they are fun to build and
| useful!
|
| Tap formulas can reference other formulas, so combining discreet
| calculations in different ways is less repetition. They can also
| refer to the value of accounts within the Tap system. So if you
| keep track of spending or other commodities you can refer to the
| value of those accounts (in total or across specific time ranges)
| in formulas.
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| 1. https://tatatap.com
| funnym0nk3y wrote:
| What's the usecase for apps like this?
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| It seems like it is made for low complexity stuff, which I
| usually calculate in the fly. Anything more advanced will go into
| Excel.
| 4silvertooth wrote:
| Hi everyone, Author here would love to answer any queries.
| stareatgoats wrote:
| I really like the app, it's snappy and works great with a small
| footprint, at least on Windows.
|
| I confess I was also intrigued by the use of Sciter as a
| platform, so I guess a question could be if you would recommend
| that for crossplatform apps, or if you came across things that
| "surprised" you along the way?
| 4silvertooth wrote:
| Well few of the surprises in sciter SDK were solved by the
| author of Sciter Andrew,
|
| Sciter development is mostly development-on-demand, so any
| bugs or feature gets resolved on interest. I've not faced any
| major issue with it.
| jasonpeacock wrote:
| On OSX, Soulver is great:
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| https://soulver.app/
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| Very useful for building worksheets and exploring formulas.
| ryanianian wrote:
| I like Soulver, but I've found Calca to be a better fit for my
| needs. It supports graphing, unbound functions, and more
| advanced math support. Its UI is more minimal and the rendering
| isn't as nice as Soulver, but I find I'm able to iterate with
| it a lot faster.
|
| I'm trying out QuikTape now, but it had to clone 1.6GiB. When I
| launch on macOS I am not able to actually type into the UI, and
| the window doesn't show as an app in the dock. Perhaps it's
| more functional on Linux.
|
| I'm still waiting for an app that can properly do real
| units/dimensional analysis and good date math (`today + 3
| business days`).
| 4silvertooth wrote:
| Can you try the prebuilt from releases for macOS?
| tunesmith wrote:
| I like Calca too better too. This is one of those crowded
| spaces that still feels like it has room for something else
| to come along and truly nail it, though. I find myself
| reaching for Calca, local Jupyter, ObservableHQ, and local
| Quarto in VsCode all for slightly different reasons.
| Someone wrote:
| > I'm trying out QuikTape now, but it had to clone 1.6GiB.
|
| How far we've come from awk scripts that are about 1kiB
| (https://c2.com/doc/expense/)
|
| > and good date math (`today + 3 business days`)
|
| That's tricky/impossible in international teams.
| 4silvertooth wrote:
| Ohh interesting,
|
| 1.6 Gib is the SDK with all the documentation, the final
| builds are comparatively tiny.
| cobrabyte wrote:
| I use Soulver every day and definitely recommend it
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