Hi there, thanks!
Send your comments here https://forms.gle/A8Q8WAG8zj4sLvwQ7 and put your email in there, I will definitely reach out with updates.
If you're up to it we could even meet sometimes for a coffee!
Tables are something I want to tackle and I'd like to do them right because (as you point out) are crucial. I didn't get there yet...
I want to make it such that you can code on the left and then hide everything
and share that with non technical folks. That's why I did not use a Colab, creating something interactive with it (and I did that quite a lot in the past)
it's a bit of a PITA.
I think having to use a tool different than excel is hard because
people have been used to that type of UI for 40 years.
The problem I have is that once you go beyond a simple thing it becomes messy
and you never know what you are dealing with.
The way you present things graphically and they way you organize data
to perform computations are tangled, making hard to read IMO.
I was hesitant to call it a variable because most people that only use excel are not going to be familiar with that concept. Suggestion for other names?
Thanks! I was always told the dollar is a prefix unit while the euro is not, but perhaps between european countries there are differences in that...
Anyway, yes the editable thing is a known problem that could be fixed by switching to a view mode rather than an edit mode. The problem right now is caused by keeping in sync the edit field and the code on the left side.
I was trying to get a sense of what people like and find useful.
Your suggestions and comments are helping to figure that out.
I am planning to add support for entire tables, like one coming from a gSheet,
and then present data from it. But not there yet, if you have suggestions, please add them to the feedback form
https://forms.gle/A8Q8WAG8zj4sLvwQ7
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.
Honestly, no. I heard of it but I never used it.
I am sure it has a lot of features that can inspire Tenno, I'll look more into it.
One of the main points here was making it more approachable, but it depends on who the audience is.
+1 this! I think writing helps you create a narrative that disambiguates the mess you can create in Excel. It also forces you to think more about what you do.
Good suggestions! Thanks