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!

Reminds me of "The Duke", a great board game that exposed the piece movements by necessity.

https://www.nonsensicalgamers.com/the-duke-review/

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.

Probably happens to all of us, especially the kind of folks that read Hacker News, I just wanted to think about it, and thank them.

I find I keep coming back to this as a framework for thinking about product decisions.

I wrote a post about this, because I think it surprises my engineering colleagues.

But I think objectively, it's a better quality of life per dollar than anything else available in the area.

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.