![]() ![]() At the moment, the total cost of my trip is €200. If there is an inherent maths problem, however, Soulver will calculate the result and display that in the answer column instead.ĭown the bottom of the document, Soulver keeps a running total. If you’ve written a simple statement, like the first line, the answer will be the same as what you wrote. In the right column Soulver lists the answer to what you’ve written. Two nights in Copenhagen at €30 a night.Just type the expenses in the left column as you would tell them to a friend. With Soulver you can use natural language to do this. Next it is time to add items to the budget. Write something like //Budget for Denmark Trip, 2014. The easiest way to write a comment in Soulver is to preface the line with //. I don’t want Soulver to take the year as a value to be used so I’m going to write my introduction as a comment. Soulver automatically pulls the numbers out of anything you write. It is always a good idea to create an introduction for yourself so that, if you find the file in a year or two, you know what it was for. There is a ten day free trial of the Mac version available from the developer’s website. I’m using the Mac version for this tutorial but the features are the same across all three platforms. It’s a available for Mac, iPhone and iPad. If you specify something in the price per week and then calculate the price per month, Soulver knows what you want to do. Soulver also has a smart understanding of units. Soulver leverages this concept you can use and in place of a plus sign, less instead of a minus, at instead of an asterisks or an x and many others as well. When you are talking to someone you rarely say “ten plus ten”, you are far more likely to say “ten and ten”. In this tutorial I’m going to take your through three sample projects that demonstrate the principals that underly Soulver and will give you the tools to start using Soulver in your workflow.īefore starting, you need to understand Soulver’s concept of Word Operators. The simplest way to get a grasp of Soulver is to jump straight in and start using it. Rather than requiring you to use specific function commands to perform operations, with Soulver you can use natural English. This tutorial will teach you everything you need to crunch your numbers efficiently with Soulver. Soulver is a simple text-powered calculator app that gives you the power of a spreadsheet with the simplicity of typing out your problems in real words. Calca is one of the most powerful, and we've already looked at how you can make Markdown documents with calculations in it. That's where simpler spreadsheet-like apps come in. The only problem is, spreadsheets are complicated tools that can feel like they take a lifetime to master. Even today, on your computer or phone, a spreadsheet is the easiest way to crunch numbers, and often the most versatile app to make a budget, schedule, or anything else that needs laid out linearly. They're the original killer app for PCs, the app that that convinced countless businesses that it was time to enter the digital age. And strongly consider the iPhone version as a Calculator replacement.Spreadsheets are incredibly powerful tools, as we've seen through our recent series on spreadsheets. If you frequently perform calculations throughout the day, you need to try Soulver. Nobody ever knows what it is, but everyone who sees me use it always asks, “Hey, what’s that?” And when they see what it does, they instantly download their own demo copy. It’s a calculator, a numeric scratchpad, and a simple spreadsheet all in one simple, fast, inexpensive program with almost no interface. Soulver for Mac is always open on all of my computers - home, work, and laptop. I’ve been beta-testing it for months (and may have bugged them into making it in the first place), and its beta version (“Sums”) was even in my First & 20 profile. Soulver for iPhone, the iPhone port of my favorite calculation scratchpad, was just released. ![]() A programmer, writer, podcaster, geek, and coffee enthusiast. ![]()
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