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Ask HN: Help me find spreadsheet software I found on HN
Searching HN has failed me so...
I remember seeing an app that has a canvas, and on it you put individual 'sheets' or tables. You can reference between them as normal, drag and drop them around. The screenshots _may_ have shown math being entered too, I can't recall.
Because my calculations are made up of many mini-calculations this seems a much better idea than the normal Excel style of multiple tables on one sheet, as adding a row doesn't affect all the other tables in the sheet. And you can see them all at once, which you can't with multiple sheets.
I've checked out https://blockpad.net/ and https://soulver.app/ and I don't think it's either (based on their current websites). Blockpad is close but more linear.
Hivemind, can you help?
- pwg 2y agoCan't help with the tool you are looking for, but there's an old trick from the Lotus 123 days (i.e., the time before spreadsheets gained "tabs") that helps with this problem of adding a row or a column to one table messing up all the other tables. You arrange your tables diagonally on the sheet, such that no rows or columns of any one table intersect with any other table. You can then add/subtract rows or columns from any one table without changing the others. I.e., layout your tables like this (hopefully the box-draw artwork comes through): ┌─┐ └─┘ ┌─┐ └─┘ ┌─┐ └─┘
- AstroJetson 2y agoI still do that today as I'm roughing things out, once I get it "close" then I'll split the min tables into tabs and go from there. Pretty sure I started using in Calcstar since I had the other xxxStar products.
- FunnyGunther 2y agoNot sure what you saw, just making a pure guess, Notion/Quip?
- nuancebydefault 2y agocoda.io?
- pax 2y agostrlen.com/treesheets ? via hackersearch.net
- i_don_t_know 2y agoApple Numbers?
- SushiHippie 2y agoGrist? https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core Via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38080951 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38080951
- stefanos82 2y agoI have used the words "sheet canvas table" and selected All from "Search" and sorted them by Date: I have the impression what you are looking for is https://nino.app/ https://nino.app/
- stamourd 2y agoMatt Wensing had something like you are describing. https://usesummit.com/ https://usesummit.com/
- baidifnaoxi 2y agoRow zero?
- jasmcole 2y agohttps://count.co https://count.co perhaps?
- johannesrexx 2y ago[TreeSheets](https://strlen.com/treesheets/ https://strlen.com/treesheets/) perhaps
- repsilat 2y agoMaybe it was 6gu.nz (site broken) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afXzeCuUuhU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afXzeCuUuhU. I wrote it about 5 years ago and probably mentioned it in a couple of comments here. It had draggable tables on the normal 2d grid, with references between them.
- AstroJetson 2y agoWow, that is very, very cool. The wayback machine has it, with a test page that works and the docs. Demo is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20200114060557/https://my.6gu.nz https://web.archive.org/web/20200114060557/https://my.6gu.nz
- mmerlin 2y agoMaybe Univer https://univer.ai/examples https://univer.ai/examples https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40171216 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40171216
- anonzzzies 2y agoHa :) I was looking at the gifs and thinking: they made i3 in the browser! Nice though.
- j45 2y agoteable? www.teable.io nocodb could be another
- anonzzzies 2y agoSo OP, which one was it?
- sethjgore 2y agoI've been trying to find this as well.. i remember it was tan-beige-gray canvas with connections between these, you could add formulas and even code inside these and generate results and variables which you could use in subsequent cells...
- RecycledEle 2y agoSuggestion: Use Excel (or Google Sheets) and limit yourself to 1 table per worksheet. --A Microsoft Excel Specialist, Expert, and Master
- izuchukwu 2y agoIt was most likely Subset: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36894939 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36894939 It appears they are re-engineering their product, as they've taken down their sign up link and their landing page now advertises an upcoming, more traditional spreadsheet product: https://subset.so/ https://subset.so/ Their docs are still up, however, and has screenshots from their old infinite canvas spreadsheet product: https://docs.subset.so/ https://docs.subset.so/
- rubenvanwyk 2y agoI think it might be https://rows.com/product https://rows.com/product or https://equals.com https://equals.com?
- nhatcher 2y agoMaybe grid.is? It's my favourite anyway :)