NoteCalc
Productivity
notepad calculator
SHOW HN2020
267points
76comments
#168of 3,028 in 2020
Top 6%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
16 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 6 critical, out of 36 comments about the project. Thread score +0.31.
Execution: 4 for, 3 againstIdea: 3 for, 1 againstDocs: 2 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful, polished, feels like a native app
From 3 comments
This is amazing. Doesn't feel like a web based tool at all. Can even do bitwise operations that's just great. Can there be a programmer mode where I can use & and | instead of…
smusamashah on HNWow I didn't even notice this wasn't HTML until I tried pasting stuff...
lxe on HNwow, love it.
waynesonfire on HN
Good Soulver alternative
From 2 comments
This is pretty good soulver replacement. I found all these similar tools has the problem that there is exactly one expression per line. Is there any exploration of this feature:…
chaoxu on HNSome feedback: it fills my browser history with a lot of entries.
Epskampie on HN
Objections
Currency symbols prefix are ignored silently
From 1 comment
Love this, but the lack of interpretation of prefixed currency symbols is absolutely maddening! That it simply ignores the number and operand with no indication that these…
gorkish on HN
Lacks unit calculations and dimensional analysis
From 2 comments
Numi would be my favourite of all these kind of calculators on macOS, if it wasn't for the lack of unit calculations[0], e.g density = 2 kg / 3 l, mass = 10 dm^3 * density [0]:…
filleokus on HNI think the term in English is dimensional analysis
asimpletune on HN
Pasting and Cmd+V did not work in one test
From 1 comment
It sounded great, so I opened a demo page to try it out. Copied the contents of my personal savings note, and wanted to paste it into the NoteCalc to see what magic it would do.…
thesmok on HN
Browser history filled with entries
From 1 comment
Some feedback: it fills my browser history with a lot of entries.
Epskampie on HN
Requests
Terminal UI version
From 1 comment
Great work. Is there a Terminal UI for this? Many users love to have simple programs in the Terminal itself.
himujjal on HN
VSCode plugin
From 2 comments
A version to use within VSCode would be very useful too.
leejoramo on HNI was just thinking, turning this into a VSCode plugin would be awesome. Would save me from opening up the browser console every time I wanted to do some simple math.
SamBam on HN
Support for other currency symbols
From 1 comment
It would also be nice to support other currency symbols. In Europe there are € and £, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_currencies_in_Europe
jannes on HN
Show result next to expression on same line
From 1 comment
This is pretty good soulver replacement. I found all these similar tools has the problem that there is exactly one expression per line. Is there any exploration of this feature:…
chaoxu on HN
Programmer mode using & and | operators
From 1 comment
This is amazing. Doesn't feel like a web based tool at all. Can even do bitwise operations that's just great. Can there be a programmer mode where I can use & and | instead of…
smusamashah on HN
Questions
Is there a docker image?
From 1 comment
is there a docker image ?
BOOSTERHIDROGEN on HN
Why WASM and Canvas?
From 1 comment
This looks amazing. Can the author explain the implementation choices? * Why WASM? * Why Canvas? From what I could see, it seems to repaint the whole canvas every frame, so I'm…
emmanueloga_ on HN
Alternatives named
Soulver
From 1 comment
This looks great! The README says: > Honestly, it just tries to be a free Soulver alternative in your browser. For people on macOS, Soulver is excellent and worth checking out:…
mattweinberg on HN
Calca
From 1 comment
Just wanted to also drop a recommendation for soulver, but I have been split between it and Calca (http://calca.io/) which I think is _also_ worth checking out, if you like this…
32bitkid on HN
Tydlig
From 1 comment
This is very cool! The project description says that it is inspired by Soulver [1]. A similar (but different) application for iOS is Tydlig [2] which can also generate some…
djbeadle on HN
Numi
From 1 comment
On macOS, there is the excellent Numi app Sadly I haven't found any equivalent for iOS (iPhone and iPad): it would definitely get my money!
gregoriol on HN
Frink
From 1 comment
Frink! https://frinklang.org/ sounds exactly what you want. It has built in bignum support and mathematical functions. It also does units and their conversation natively. It runs…
mxb on HN
Org-mode / calc-mode
From 1 comment
Any reason you don't use calc-mode to insert mathematical results into your Org buffer? Calc-mode is extremely powerful.
b3n on HN