chux52
Joined 14 years ago
Joined 14 years ago
Many times the spreadsheet is a collaborative document. One way to use spreadsheets is you use it for a number of iterations, get your outcome quickly, let stakeholders give feedback and adjust the approach. Then once it becomes stable, then you turn it into a database/app/script. Errors in spreadsheets are obvious to more users than errors in code because your work is shown, not hidden.
Taking a csv file and writing bash is not the answer. If you are doing that, you should probably get back to work/research.
Ended up in Accounting, dabbled with Python and now back to programming with Cursor/Claude.
It did get me just far enough so I could see that computers were complicated but not actually magic and like you did change my life.
Your version reminds me of OneNote when it was new and good and not horrible. Being able to place your notes where you want them is such a radical concept.
The features you have are simple and the idea of stacking notes is really cool and don't think I've seen that done before.
Tried to create something like this but the best I got was a bookmarklet to copy the chat text. Ended up just exporting data and using that method for a one time pull.