däpter
The notes app that does the math
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The notes app that does the math
8 followers
A universal, private notes app where every line runs through a real calculation engine. Math, currencies, units and dates resolve as you type. Local-only.
hi guys,
i'm finally launching an app, and this is very exciting because i've been working on this for a while now, and one of my dreams is finally coming true.
i'm the type of guy that enjoys the notes app on iphone, the notions of the world, the obsidians. i like keeping things in my notes all the time. i had worked on one of my first apps ever called cushn, a very nice app where i would keep track of my finances, but there was always something missing. then one day i saw a post on threads where someone was keeping their monthly budget plans right inside their notes, and that's how this idea kinda came about. and obviously i got inspired by numi, one of the greatest apps i've ever used, and i wanted to take that similar experience to mobile.
so that's how däpter was born. an apple-notes style app where your notes actually do the math as you type. write 2 + 2, 20% of 300, 120 usd in eur, or today + 21 days and the answer just shows up in the margin. no switching to a calculator, no leaving the note. prose and math live on the same page. only the lines that look like calculations light up, and one broken line never breaks the rest. i wanted calculations and your thoughts to just be one place. and it's all local and private, i decided to keep it stupidly simple - no servers, no network, your numbers never leave your phone. it also speaks plain english, kazakh🇰🇿🇰🇿🇰🇿 and russian so units and currencies convert the natural way you'd write them.
the process itself really evolved along the way. the hard part wasn't the notes app, it was resisting the urge to fake the math with regexes. i ended up building a real little calculation language under the hood so units, currencies, dates and functions could just keep growing. and making it feel instant without ever fighting your cursor took the most iterations by far.
anyway, this is a big one for me. would genuinely love your feedback, especially the calculations you wish just worked. that's basically my roadmap 🙏
Curious how the calculation engine handles ambiguous inputs like dates that could be relative or absolute, does it just pick one and let you correct it inline?
@bnyaminhvkv great question and honestly you got me wondering at the moment we're keeping it ambiguous by not guessing and keeping relative dates as keywords like "today", "tomorrow", "yesterday" and "now" and absolute dates are function based date(2024, 1, 15) which makes me realize that we don't yet parse natural stuff like "next friday" or "july 6" which might be where your expectations are. This might be the next thing I want to get to.
Would love your eyes on it and if you'd like to TestFlight I'd be happy to add you, your feedback on this would be very much appreciated
launched the docs page since everyone has been asking
https://dapter.shystud.io/docs