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I'm not knocking it. At first glance this reminds me of a notebook like Jupyter. Was that an inspiration here? Also, how would you say this stacks up in terms of sharing these files and/or running them locally? Thanks.

Edit: after seeing this, I kind of wish Jupyter worked with markdown exactly like this. Jupyter's GUI-oriented blocks jammed into my VSCode workspace always felt unnecessarily clunky to me.

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The idea was to have a more linear way to express your thoughts and adding calculations. Another big problem for me was that in excel when you want to create various plots for the same multi-variate problem you have to create a ton of copies of your data and formula.

For sharing files, it could be as simple as sharing a text file. You can also imagine a future where you create something and you only share the nice looking html view that is still interactive.

Running locally? not a problem, I already tested packaging this into a OSX app and it was like 4MB and has the same functionalities.

Check this out:

Soulver - https://soulver.app

Notepad, meet calculator...

Soulver is a natural language notepad calculator app for the Mac, iPad & iPhone.

It is a better way to work things out than a traditional calculator, and a more lightweight tool for working through problems than a spreadsheet.

Here's an example from a real user:

https://x.com/hisaac/status/1355720844929019909

Nice, I saw this years ago!

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