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What do you currently do for quick calculations?

I uploaded a copy to my s3 bucket: https://www.mindlessflash.com/FormulaCalc.wdgt.zip remove the .zip extension before opening on it.

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I currently use Spotlight, but it's super non-ideal. I'll often dismiss spotlight and then realize I forgot the result. (I really hate what they did to Spotlight in Yosemite—it's overloaded and thus worse at its original purpose of searching the filesystem.)

I also recently bought Soulver (https://www.acqualia.com/soulver), which is great but not quite as quick as a dashboard widget.

Thanks for the modified upload—I realized the version on Apple's site has a visual glitch with the search bar length. I also found this version, which makes you hint enter before you can see the result, but feels more polished. Can't tell if there's any relation. https://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/calculate_convert/...

Thanks. I'll check out soulver, it seems a bit linear though. I don't know about you but I'm looking for something that's more like plugging inputs into outputs and wiring up calcs than doing them line by line.

I should say the version I linked to, I hacked a bit to make the text fields wider to fit more text in them

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