Playing with some of the no-code programmable features of @RoamResearch (pomodoro timer, kanban boards etc) strikes me that a) this has potential to be the first real no-code environment since Excel and b) it's a way to do Wolfram-style computational essays without Mathematica
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The {{table}} model is revealing. At once reveals the strengths and weaknesses of the nested list as first-class citizen. You're reducing 2d to 1d, so you have to choose whether it will be row-dominant or column-dominant. At the moment they have row-dominant as a design choice.
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lol, roam manages to implement a janky little spreadsheet right within any page using block refs. This is brilliant
@Conaw you're making the world's best turing tarpit.pic.twitter.com/tclMHBPqod
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i have only tried using the tables once or twice and quickly became frustrated: any sizable table starts taking longer and longer to re-render every time you add a block, and it slows to a crawl
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Yeah I definitely wouldn't use this for more than say 3-4 columns. It's tables as in word docs not as in spreadsheets.
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