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@Staiola Staiola released this 08 Sep 15:05
findernotes-v1.1
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A scratchpad that appears when you press a key and disappears when you are done, by Jesper GB Henriksen.

Lives in the menu bar with no Dock icon. Notes are plain text on disk.

New in 1.1

It answers sums. End a line with = and the result appears after it in grey. Press tab to turn it into real text, or keep typing and it goes away.

  • + - * / × ÷ ^, parentheses, a trailing %, and either . or , as the decimal separator
  • Only pure arithmetic counts, so a reference number or a command in a note stays quiet. A bare number with no operator is not a sum
  • The answer is drawn over the text rather than inserted into it. What is stored stays exactly what you typed, so a suggestion cannot be saved, copied, counted, or turn up on a card in the rail
  • The parser is hand-written rather than NSExpression, which raises an Objective-C exception on malformed input that Swift cannot catch — evaluating every line as you type would otherwise be a crash generator. Checked against 200,000 fuzzed lines with no trap

Opening a note now puts the caret at the end rather than the start, which suits a scratchpad and makes a sum on the last line answerable straight away.

A drawn pencil is the menu bar glyph, and the app has its own icon.

Install

Open the disk image and drag FinderNotes to Applications.

Requires: macOS 14 or later. Universal for Apple silicon and Intel. Signed with a Developer ID certificate, notarised by Apple and stapled, so it opens without a Gatekeeper warning even offline.

Project page: https://jesperh.cv/apps/findernotes.html

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