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by SimplGy 615 days ago
Daily Obsidian user here. I often need to do a bit of math or adding numbers in a column, and could be the target market for this, but I'm not sure yet.

I am confused about using Excel as a metaphor, and calling things "cells" -- Excel is all about cells and tables, but actually this is just "assigning variables and doing a bit of math inside of :: these blocks :: like a templating language.

Suggestion: just explain it like that to people?

As a feature request, I often have a list of values (in a column) and want to sum them. It'd be nice if I could write it and have it print the sum in the view/wysiwym mode. Eg:

:: 10,000 20,000 5,000 = total_expenses ::

(maybe it could ignore commas too :) )

Cool work, love seeing things in the markdown space!