Soulver 3.0.4

June 24, 2019

Soulver 3 is a smart notepad with a built-in calculator. It gives instant answers to any calculations it finds in your text. It’s a better way to work stuff out than with a traditional calculator, and a more lightweight tool for quick calculations than a spreadsheet.

Math Features

Instant calculations, no equals required
Use words alongside numbers, so calculations make sense
Quick totals of all your lines, and subtotals
Calendar calculations (June 9 + 3 weeks, 3:35 pm + 6 hours 27 minutes)
Easy percentages (“$300 – 10%”, “30 as a % of 200”)
Unit conversions (“10 kg in pounds, “25 meters in feet”)
168 live real-world and cryptocurrency rates.
Line references to build little calculating documents
Variables & variable autocompleting
Global variables & custom units

App Features

Dark mode
Sidebar for organising your sheets and the ability to make folders
Headings (#), comments (//) & labels (:)
Customize your syntax coloring & font
Automatic number formatting, with spaces around operators and thousand separators
Number scrubbing (hold shift and hover over a number)
Deep macOS system integration: Touch Bar support, Quicklook, Calculate anywhere services
Automation tools: a command-line interface, Alfred workflow, Automator action

What’s New

Version 3.0.4:

Intergace

Redesigned user interface supports dark mode and includes a sidebar for managing sheets within the app.

Calculator

Support for calendar calculations.
Proportion/'rule of three' functions (10 is to 20 as 50 is to what/15 is to 30 as what is to 80)
Functions with multiple parameters: 'midpoint between', 'greater/lesser of', 'remainder of'
Unix time calculations
More intuitive syntax for some percentage operators ('50 is 25% of what')
More large SI prefixes & support for small SI prefixes in answer formatting
'Half of' function

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
Sort sheets by date edited, date created or title
Import Soulver 2 or Soulver 3 files by dropping them on the dock icon.

Subtotals

Designate a line a subtotal, which will add up all lines above it (up to the next subtotal or heading)

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

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)

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)

Automation

Command-line interface
URL schemes
Automator Action for evaluating text using Soulver
Calculate anywhere services
Alfred integration

Miscellaneous

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)
Import Soulver 2 files, and have them migrated to the latest syntax
Use # for headings
Implicit unit detection in some case (i.e 2 ducks + 2 ducks = 4 ducks)
References can optionally refer to a line's rounded value
Redesigned styling preference pane with a live preview
Heading styling (custom font size, and # colour)
A redesigned reference that mimics the Soulver UI
A new app icon by Marc Edwards