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by skybrian 1372 days ago
Too bad the documentation isn’t online. What does it use for formulas? How do you share notebooks? Do you need the app to view them?

I’m pretty happy with Observable’s notebooks. It means you need to know JavaScript, though, and furthermore learn Observable’s quirks [1] and a plotting library.

[1] https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/observables-not-javas...

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Decipad has its own custom formula language geared towards our use cases (we’ve been testing the language with a small group). Right now, to share a notebook, you can generate a secret link. You don’t need to sign-up to view/read a notebook that someone shares. Here is a model on interest rates- https://alpha.decipad.com/n/Rising-interest-rates-and-AAPL-s... You should be able to view it. Are there any use cases you are thinking of?

We plan to make our documentation publicly available soon. Right now, we are focusing on enabling certain use cases.

Ya, weird. The landing page gives almost no information about what it's like to actually use it. Not even an example workbook/file to tinker with the possible finished-products.