Daily Obsidian user here. I often need to do a bit of math or adding numbers in a column, and could be the target market for this, but I'm not sure yet.
I am confused about using Excel as a metaphor, and calling things "cells" -- Excel is all about cells and tables, but actually this is just "assigning variables and doing a bit of math inside of :: these blocks :: like a templating language.
Suggestion: just explain it like that to people?
As a feature request, I often have a list of values (in a column) and want to sum them. It'd be nice if I could write it and have it print the sum in the view/wysiwym mode. Eg:
::
10,000
20,000
5,000
=
total_expenses
::
(maybe it could ignore commas too :) )
Cool work, love seeing things in the markdown space!
Very happy to be with hubitat. It’s OSS and not user friendly, but it mostly works with most devices and once it’s running I don’t have to maintain it except to restart (twice in about 3 years)
I also like that if I did want functionality enough (Eg: graph of temperature) I could probably figure out how to write a plugin.
Testing User Interface code sucks. I hate it. It's difficult and fragile. You probably agree so far. Controversially; I also think UI testing is low value and the answer is to be pretty decisive about cutting it.
The distraction free workflow with timer motivation is a really killer feature. I wonder if you could handle the longer term PKM / organize / retrieve kinds of use cases by integrating really nicely with tools that focus on that, like Obsidian?
Respectfully, might need to rename it if you’re going for broad adoption.
Just imagine speaking the name of your product to a family member who asks what you’re working on, or the cashier at the grocery store asks what your startup is.
I know you don’t know me and it’s none of my business. I just thought better to rebrand sooner than later. Maybe ask someone you trust wrt marketing kinds of questions?
I came here to say this. The similarity was so striking it was jarring. Both really great articles. Might both be explaining the ~same thing in different terms.
So you actually mentioned web3, but not the technology from it that is most interesting to me for this problem.
I’m hopeful that “decentralized identity” is a solution here.
In theory this would let people cryptographically prove whatever small fact about themselves they would like to share with a service provider like marginalia, without paying you, or sharing their identity, or anything else.
Eg: “I am a human”, or “I have written less that 100k words on the Internet” or “my comments have an upvote average above zero”
First result had a recipe I could see both recipe and directions in a single page, no ads, no scrolling, no fake seo anecdotes about kids and grandmas.
(Pls make the search query box fit small mobile devices)
I love markdown. It’s been my primary way of taking notes for many years.
A key benefit of the format to me is that text files will never be deprecated and are infinitely portable.
I saw mentioned a local cache. Would you add a pitch or squeeze page on this topic to help convince users like me? I want to love your product. The scrolling alone; beautiful.
Example user stories:
* can always see all notes as simple, well named, plainly organized, easy to read text files.
* Can output/sync certain folders of notes to plain text files. (To, for example, a Dropbox folder target)
I want to start using this, but I'm concerned what happens when a service changes their domain.
When the domain changes, even subtly like from api.foo.com to www.foo.com, it will break my ability to access the site. If I do not remember the previous URL, I will not be able to recover it.
I am confused about using Excel as a metaphor, and calling things "cells" -- Excel is all about cells and tables, but actually this is just "assigning variables and doing a bit of math inside of :: these blocks :: like a templating language.
Suggestion: just explain it like that to people?
As a feature request, I often have a list of values (in a column) and want to sum them. It'd be nice if I could write it and have it print the sum in the view/wysiwym mode. Eg:
:: 10,000 20,000 5,000 = total_expenses ::
(maybe it could ignore commas too :) )
Cool work, love seeing things in the markdown space!