Releases: Maybulb/Nimble
Nimble v1.0.2
- Made file size 30mb smaller
- Added option for autolaunch (enabled by default)
- Fixed weird scrollbar thing
Nimble v1.0.1
- Fixed an issue with OS X's option for dark mode not showing the Nimble icon.
- Nimble no longer accepts blank inputs, which was a problem!
- Copying links and text works. You can now copy, paste, and shortcut at will!
- Maximum width has been set on images, so now, Nimble won't resize as often. Plots will continue to resize Nimble, as they are not width variable.
- A preferences/functions menu has been improved inside Nimble.
- You can now have Nimble read answers back to you, but this can sometimes be weird. Speech is experimental, and we hope to improve it in the future.
- You also now have the option to disable Math.js, the fastest way inside Nimble to do quick math like basic conversions and expressions. I don't know why you'd want to disable it, but hey, you can now.
Size | Version | SHA256Sum |
55.49MB | 1.0.1 | 5370e7429f9dcc6dec5c2e84edfe19db010a686d571f4e28271e7e3a5f35ffb9 |
Nimble v1.0.0
Hello! This is Ethan Arterberry, assistant developer and 1/3 of Bright. We make apps. Up until recently when I was able to join the project Nimble was at slow pace due to the fact that not everyone has as much time on their hands as I do. The last project I worked on was called EssayMaker, and it was huge. Once I was done with that, I asked if I could work with Josh and Adam on Nimble. They, being the infinitely caring and swamped with schoolwork folks they are, agreed. So here we are, version 1.0 of Nimble.
We thought this would take decades. Turns out, it took a slightly autistic 13 year old. Nonetheless, it's ready to use. Nimble is a menubar application personal assistant that's open source and free to use. It heavily relies on Wolfram|Alpha®, a computational knowledge engine that we've had the utmost pain and pleasure of dealing with, as well as math.js, which handles simple math instead of wasting bandwidth and time throwing it to Wolfram. Basically, it's the reason 1 + 1
doesn't take 10 seconds to come back. Nimble is also built on the horribly underdocumented and underused Electron, which allows us to keep everything cross-platform by using web technologies like Node and WebKit. This also makes development easier for us as we are all web developers.
Nimble can do many things, for example:
- tell you who won the last Blazers game (
who won the last Trail Blazers game?
) - tell you what "yiff" means (
define yiff
) - graph a picture of Donald Trump (
graph Donald Trump
) - give non-answers to your existential questions (
does God exist?
) - show the Home Alone 2 movie poster through a dog's eyes (
apply dog vision to the Home Alone 2 poster
) - answer your burning playground debates (
Did Han Solo shoot first?
) - even do your math homework! (
Solve 3x2 + x - 7 = 4x
)
How to use Nimble:
- Once you have Nimble running, just click the icon (looks like an equals sign) on your menubar (location varies based on OS) to start it up
- You can enter a query in the orange input and press
Enter
or click the search button to search for it - The result will load, and when it's done you can right click on the result to get options based on it. (sharing, etc.) This will be improved upon in the near future.
- If you're tech saavy, you can open the Dev Tools by shift-clicking the Nimble menubar icon
- Finally, to close Nimble, right-click the Nimble icon
That's just the beginning of what Nimble can do! You'll just have to use it to find out! We're doing our best to test, optimize, and improve Nimble, but we're just 3 teenagers. If you'd like to help us out, you can do so by filing an issue on the GitHub repo (which you are currently visiting!) or contacting us via Twitter. Either way, you can download it below for your platform of choice and tell us what you think.
Nimble will soon work on all platforms, but for now, we are starting on OS X.