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I thought about using something like this for my invoices, or even doing something on my own, but in reality I made an HTML page with a bunch of "contenteditabl
by locallost 3y ago
I thought about using something like this for my invoices, or even doing something on my own, but in reality I made an HTML page with a bunch of "contenteditable" attributes, edit it directly in the browser, sometimes fiddle in devtools to remove some things, and print as pdf. Somehow it feels wrong because my mother couldn't do that, but since I can it's actually the fastest way to get it done for me.
But anyway it's a nice tool for people who want to do something with little fuss. Some nitpicks:
* if I refresh the page, all the data is lost
* custom select boxes are ok, but the list of currencies is huge. in a normal select box I could just type "EUR" and it would select that option. Here I need to scroll for a long time.
* an annoying thing in general is tracking the invoice number. It would be nice if it would remember the last one. Of course there are all sorts of complexities here, like people have different "systems" on how it's called and how to increment
* my company is always the same, so it would be nice if this data was saved. Sorry if it already does, I didn't see it.
But thanks for sharing in any case.
- notpushkin 3y agoI'm doing pretty much the same for all my routine paperwork, but with page.css for realistic preview and Mavo for the editing and storage part. Here's an example: https://papers.aedge.dev/payout/ https://papers.aedge.dev/payout/
- samstave 3y agoThats actually REALLY cool. If this were like a notepad++ plugin or a site where I can have multiple tabs of these pages - I like this for resume, cover letters, etc - not sure if this is something new or just based on something existing - but within 30 seconds, I loved it... So - bring moar.
- notpushkin 3y agoThank you so much! My current plan is to add a couple more templates (CV, generic invoice, maybe some basic contracts), and just list these on the index page. Curious why would you need multiple tabs though?
- samstave 3y ago>>why would you need multiple tabs though? To have multiple cover letters, documents, etc and be able to manage such in my ADHD MANY ALL THE TAVBS!!!! So yeah...
- notpushkin 3y agoOh yeah, know that feel too :-) I don't think we'll have a proper document management system, just a bunch of cool templates. Well, not in the MVP, anyway – maybe in some future version though!
- Mackser 3y agoI started similarly. I had built a really simple HTML template for my invoices and I generated them using some CLI scripts and Airtable as a database (to keep track of customer addresses, invoice IDs, etc.). I didn't want to use a full-on accounting tool where everything is kept in the cloud with expensive monthly subscriptions and using Word or something along those lines also didn't work for me.