Calca provides lots of examples to help you learn how to build different types of formulas.Ĭalca isn’t limited to just performing simple arithmetic. Of course, as any spreadsheet jockey would expect, when you change the values of the variables, the results will change automatically in the document as well. As you might have already guessed, as soon as you type the “=>“ symbol, Calca inserts the calculated result (50).
For example, a Calca document can contain variables, such as “length = 5” and “width = 10”, perform calculations on them, such “area = length * width” and then produce the result thusly: “area => 50”. This allows you to mix calculated results with regular text within the same document. In essence, Calca is a Markdown-powered text editor that also understands math and performs calculations. How can I crunch numbers but stay within the comfort of plain text and Markdown? Luckily, Lotus 1-2-3.) So now we’re back to the plain text versus binary format quandary. (I’m no stranger to spreadsheets as I started my computer career back in the Dark Ages as an analyst, peering endlessly into the glowing green screen of an IBM-PC running Only one thing, though: while this works great for regular text-oriented documents, I tend to do quite a bit of estimating, which also requires performing some calculations. Calca is a text editor that lets you combine plain text, Markdown syntax and calculations in the same document. Additionally, since plain text is a universal file format, I have no need to worry about whether or not my colleagues can open the documents I send them. Likewise, by working with plain text, I have a wide array of apps to choose from on my Mac and iOS devices, while my choice of word processing apps is severely limited in comparison. Markdown works great for me typical word processing apps, like My formatting needs are pretty simple and Philosophical reasons, but mainly for the sake of simplicity and flexibility.
I prefer to keep my notes in plain text format partly for As a Web developer and project manager, I maintain lots of notes that I edit, not only on my Mac, but also on my iPhone and iPad.
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