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by finiteseries 1926 days ago
The Text/Shapes/Charts styling that make Keynote slides so consistently nice is also available with the same UI in Numbers (Excel) and Pages (Word).

With the ability to have multiple tables next to and around Keynote styled diagrams and notes on a single, giant zoomable sheet-canvas with all the usual spreadsheet functionality, Numbers quickly replaced my personal Excel usage.
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hc-taway 1926 days ago
Oh yeah, I love the "office suite". It reminds me of when I ran Linux and used some of the lighter, alternative office-type options (OpenOffice was so damn heavy and not all that pleasant to use) like Gnumeric, Abiword, et c., except... well, much better in almost every way. But I don't have to interop with MS Office very often so I'm not sure if they're much good at that. Certainly they beat the hell out of using resource-hog Google Docs tabs, though, plus they're way more pleasant (far less laggy, for one thing).

Notes is nice. I wish it had a 1st-party export solution. Markdown as an option for formatting would be good but it's not a deal-breaker. Being able to drag all kinds of crap, including entire PDFs(!) into Notes and have it Just Work is pretty great.

Preview is so, so good. Thanks to it, macOS is the only platform I've ever used where I don't hesitate even a second to open a PDF. Plus it's great at so many other things.

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