I stopped forcing Excel to be a database after finding this open-source middle ground (www.makeuseof.com)

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[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 31 points 4 days ago

To skip the clickbait, they are talking about a software called Grist:

[-] otacon239@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Grist is good, but it lacks the ability to reference other rows in formulas, bringing me back into Excel (LibreOffice Calc in my case) once again.

I would love for someone to replicate AppSheet as an open-source project. So many of the app builders out there right now expect you to already have a firm understanding of how you’d go about building one of these apps from scratch.

I really just want a sort of Excel+ with some prebuilt UI templates and search capability, but my search will continue to another day…

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 4 days ago

Thanks!

This looks promising for all the ad-hoc stuff I organize and would like to be able to easily access from my phone.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago

Not one thing in that video is centered or aligned properly

[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

I've made Excel do a lot of things it has no business doing, but it's best at being a spreadsheet. It will work for you as a database, until it doesn't. Use it for doing spreadsheet stuff. Keep your data in a database.

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