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Is the Best Free-Form Cell-Based Visual Board & Grid .... Excel ?!
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Posted by washere
Aug 9, 2020 at 02:37 PM
>>And they’re are related to Excel
And they’re all related to Excel
Posted by washere
Aug 9, 2020 at 08:32 PM
P.S. although numerical calculations won’t be needed, in time textual calculations will be useful. For example having different level views of Categories’ levels like outline-4D, plus other textual manipulations.
https://www.vertex42.com/blog/excel-formulas/text-formulas-in-excel.html
But that and similar text automations will be much later for me and not the main point. Also what most people don’t realize except those rather familiar with Excel is that one can make a worksheet look “almost” like any productivity app layout, almost, and without any coding. It’s not what comes to mind when an average person thinks of Excel at all. How it can look has infinite potential. How it behaves and automated textual tasks (calculations), that’ll be a bonus if I get time for it.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Aug 10, 2020 at 03:12 PM
Hm, nice idea, I must say.
The two macOS apps that would fit the bill most nearly are Curio (alas, macOS only) and Numbers (also available as an online app).
Curio is rapidly evolving into something very similar to what you’re describing.
I guess OneNote matches part of your brief, but I don’t think it’s comprehensive enough – and it tends to run slowly as files grow bigger.
Posted by washere
Aug 10, 2020 at 03:35 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
Hm, nice idea, I must say.
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>The two macOS apps that would fit the bill most nearly are Curio (alas,
>macOS only) and Numbers (also available as an online app).
>
>Curio is rapidly evolving into something very similar to what
>you’re describing.
>
>I guess OneNote matches part of your brief, but I don’t think
>it’s comprehensive enough – and it tends to run slowly
>as files grow bigger.
Yes, the ways cells, rows, columns, subgrids etc can be made to look in Excel, or browsed etc is nearly infinite. From advanced use of menu commands to much more. Not to mention plugging in charts, etc.
And of course not forgetting the best Excel lookalike for Mac users is….. Excel on Mac.
Posted by Bobby Parker
Aug 11, 2020 at 05:11 PM
As crazy as it sounds, I’m inclined to agree…CURRENTLY, there is nothing that really binds cell-based layouts & grids into something useful in this space. To even get a grid in something like say, SalesForce, I have to buy a special plugin.
I did some work for DoD at one point, and converted a huge pile of interrelated spreadsheets into a graph visualization for some stuff. Then I wrote a tool to do that for me, that let me sync my grid with the visualization in interesting ways. Then I built a bigger product off of that. Trouble is, it was all in Adobe Flash.
So, I’m working on a weird, also-comes-at-the-problem-from-an-angle sorta 3D solution.