What is Calcish?
Calcish is a versatile macOS application designed to streamline calculations, coding, and AI interactions. It functions as an enhanced notebook, allowing users to perform calculations, execute JavaScript code, and engage with both local and remote AI models.
The tool is built upon QuickJS, providing enhanced JavaScript capabilities such as math mode for precise calculations, fractions mode, and support for vectors and matrices. Users can access Calcish from anywhere using a global hotkey or menu bar icon, and save their work as codebooks for later use.
Features
- Math mode: Enables more precise calculations with large numbers.
- Fractions mode: Allows calculations with fractions.
- Vectors & matrices mode: Enables vector and matrix operators for arrays.
- Decimal number type: For exact currency calculations.
- AI integration: Chat with local AI models or connect to remote models via API.
- Codebooks: Save and organize work for future reference.
- Global hotkey: Quick access from anywhere on macOS.
Use Cases
- Quick throw-away calculations.
- Exploratory programming.
- Data manipulation.
- Experimenting with AI prompting.
- Creating custom functions using AI.
- Running JavaScript code.
- Interacting with local and remote AI models.
