Soulver 3.0.0

Soulver 3.0.0

Soulver 3 is a smart notepad with a built-in calculator. It gives instant answers to any calculations it finds in your text. It’s a better way to work stuff out than with a traditional calculator, and a more lightweight tool for quick calculations than a spreadsheet.

Math Features

• Instant calculations, no equals required
• Use words alongside numbers, so calculations make sense
• Quick totals of all your lines, and subtotals
• Calendar calculations (June 9 3 weeks, 3:35 pm 6 hours 27 minutes)
• Easy percentages (“$300 10%”, “30 as a % of 200”)
• Unit conversions (“10 kg in pounds, “25 meters in feet”)
• 168 live realworld and cryptocurrency rates.
• Line references to build little calculating documents
• Variables & variable autocompleting
• Global variables & custom units
• App Features
• Dark mode
• Sidebar for organising your sheets and the ability to make folders
• Headings (#), comments (//) & labels (:)
• Customize your syntax coloring & font
• Automatic number formatting, with spaces around operators and thousand separators
• Number scrubbing (hold shift and hover over a number)
• Deep macOS system integration: Touch Bar support, Quicklook, Calculate anywhere services
• Automation tools: a commandline interface, Alfred workflow, Automator action

Compatibility: OS X 10.14 or later 64-bit

Web Site: http://www.acqualia.com

What’s New in Soulver 3.0.0

Soulver 3 has 50 new features. Most requested features include support for dark mode, date & time math, subtotals, an integrated sheets manager and a redesigned user interface.

Interface

• Redesigned user interface supports dark mode and includes a sidebar for managing sheets within the app.

Calculator

• Support for calendar calculations.
• Proportion/’rule of three’ functions (10 is to 20 as 50 is to what/15 is to 30 as what is to 80)
• Functions with multiple parameters: ‘midpoint between’, ‘greater/lesser of’, ‘remainder of’
• Unix time calculations
• More intuitive syntax for some percentage operators (’50 is 25% of what’)
• More large SI prefixes & support for small SI prefixes in answer formatting
• ‘Half of’ function

Organization

• Create folders for managing sheets.
• Trash for recovering recently deleted files.
• Drag sheets out of the sidebar to export a .slvr file
• Spotlight search integration
• Sort sheets by date edited, date created or title
• Import Soulver 2 or Soulver 3 files by dropping them on the dock icon.

Subtotals

• Designate a line a subtotal, which will add up all lines above it (up to the next subtotal or heading)

Variables

• Variables can now include multiple words
• Autocomplete support for variables (hit the escape key)
• Shifthover over a variable to see its actual value on that line
• Variables can now be redeclared with new values.

Editing

• Scrubbable numbers (shift hover over a number to show the scrubber)
• Autothousands separator insertion (1000 becomes 1,000)
• QuickOperators (1p1 becomes 1 1, etc)
• Keystrokes to insert labels & variable declarations
• Touch Bar support with quick access to operators, sheet defined variables, and line references.
• A preferences to start sheets with a heading or a comment

Units & Currencies

• User definable custom units
• More scientific units
• Better answer formatting of time & imperial lengths
• Support for 16 popular cryptocurrencies
• Better handling of unit calculations in many cases than in Soulver 2.
• All realworld currencies now enabled by default (no need to add them manually)

Lines & References

• Rearrange & delete lines & via the answer column
• Bump lines up/down using keystrokes
• Reference insertion mode (hit ⌘L, then type the number of the line you want to insert a reference to)

Automation

• Commandline interface
• URL schemes
• Automator Action for evaluating text using Soulver
• Calculate anywhere services
• Alfred integration

Miscellaneous

• Automatically convert documents created in foreign locales into your preferred locale
• Soulver now uses a JSON based file format (.slvr) rather than XML based (.soulver)
• Import Soulver 2 files, and have them migrated to the latest syntax
• Use # for headings
• Implicit unit detection in some case (i.e 2 ducks 2 ducks = 4 ducks)
• References can optionally refer to a line’s rounded value
• Redesigned styling preference pane with a live preview
• Heading styling (custom font size, and # colour)
• A redesigned reference that mimics the Soulver UI
• A new app icon by Marc Edwards

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