Soulver 3 for Mac
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What's new in Soulver 3?
Soulver 3 has 80+ new features, including date & time math, subtotals, an integrated sheets manager, sheet publishing to the web, QuickSoulver, and a redesigned user interface.
Interface
- Redesigned user interface. Soulver now manages sheets for you in a sidebar.
- You can still use the classic "Save documents in Finder" workflow if you prefer.
- Select light mode, dark mode or system defaults from the General preferences.
- Redesigned preferences
Calculator
- Support for calendar calculations, for example:
- March 12 + 3 weeks 2 days (4 April)
- Days between April 3 and June 12 (70 days)
- August 14 + 3 workdays (August 19)
- today + 3 weeks
- Support for time calculations, for example:
- 3:30pm + 2 hours 15 minutes (5:45 pm)
- 01:02:03 + 01:09:54 (02:11:57)
- now + 3 hours 25 minutes
- Time zone conversions, for example:
- Time in New York
- Time difference between Chicago and Paris
- 3:30am Moscow to Japan
- 2am PST to GMT
- You can use countries as well as common city names (in cases where a country spans multiple timezones, the timezone of the capital city will be used)
- Proportion/'rule of three' functions, for example:
- 10 is to 20 as 50 is to what (100)
- 15 is to 30 as what is to 80 (40)
- Functions with multiple parameters, for example:
- midpoint between 5 and 10 (7.5),
- 'greater/lesser of', 'remainder of'
- Unix time calculations ('new timestamp', 'march 12 3pm as timestamp')
- ISO8601 date formatting
- Financial functions for compound interest, loan repayments, & return on investment
- Better support for working with rates ('30 hours at $30/hour', '$900 at $30/hour')
- More intuitive syntax for some percentage operators ('50 is 25% of what')
- if/then/else statements
- Random number generator:
- Random number between 1 and 10
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, within the app and from the system Spotlight
- Sort sheets by date edited, date created or title
- Import Soulver 2 or Soulver 3 files by dropping them on the dock icon.
- Open specific sheets via URLs
QuickSoulver
- Perform quick calculations from a Spotlight like interface
- Save your calculations to Soulver as a sheet (⌘S)
- Access a "QuickSoulver" from within Soulver, or the menu bar, or global hotkey
Totals & Subtotals
- Designate a line a subtotal, which will add up all lines above it (up to the next subtotal or heading)
- Smarter total will ignore variable declarations & referenced lines automatically
Variables
- Variables can now include multiple words
- Auto-complete support for variables (hit the escape key)
- Shift-hover 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)
- Auto-thousands 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
- Use # for headings, rather than @. Multiple #'s are supported.
- Customize the color of the # part of a heading in the Styling Preferences
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 real-world currencies now enabled by default (no need to add them manually)
- Customize currency symbols (i.e choose whether ¥ refers to JPY or CNY)
Styled Emails
- Send beautifully styled HTML emails (not available in the Mac App Store version)
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)
Files & Locales
- 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)
- You can import your old Soulver 2 files into Soulver 3.
macOS & Third Party Integrations
- Use Soulver from Terminal with the new CLI
- System-wide "Calculate Anywhere" text services
- An Automator action
- Improved VoiceOver support, with the option of reading out a line's answer after editing
- Search your sheets from Spotlight & get a QuickLook Preview. QuickLook is also supported in Finder.
- Touch Bar support with quick access to operators, sheet defined variables, and line references.
- URL schemes for creating sheets, opening sheets, and doing calculations
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