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If you want to try it out I enabled it on the beta site. There aren't any docs for the function stuff, but this is how it works:
• Prefix
==sum()var foo=1=1.1="foo"The production version is knotend.com, but computation isn't supported there.
Here's the graph that I did in the demo if you don't want to start from scratch.
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Jim Meyer
10/24/2022, 6:04 AMThat's a really nice way to visualize computation 🙂 My initial thought, and this might me half-baked and fall apart on closer inspection, was that "why do you need separate nodes for variables?". Excel has the concept of named cells, could you use something similar, e.g. there's a naming feature/action on nodes, but naming doesn't introduce additional nodes?
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Scott Antipa
10/24/2022, 2:30 PMYou're right I probably could, but a lot of the focus of knotend is to be keyboard-centric and text-centric. So I don't like having extra data about a node (other than color) which could instead be text.
I also like vars because you can have multiple vars pointing to the same value (same upstream node) instead of having a value to have have as single name. I guess a way around that would be to have a way for a node to just take on its upstream node's value so you could have multiple nodes depending on a single node upstream, but giving them different var names.
But I still need to experiment, and maybe
var fooj
Jim Meyer
10/24/2022, 4:39 PMI don't think keyboard navigation needs to take a hit. I see it more as the UI going from
[Node value] --> [var name][Node value | var name][Node value] --> [var name]j
James Scott-Brown
10/24/2022, 9:39 PMHave you considered making the formulae and values visible at the same time?
Something like this (quick sketch I mocked-up in Figma by modifying a screenshot):
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Scott Antipa
10/25/2022, 4:11 AM@James Scott-Brown cool, I can try it. I just went the excel route. I think showing the values is more intuitive especially for non technical people. But I should experiment. I like just showing the values because theres less clutter mostly.