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I've wanted something like this for data entry for a while now. I often find my hands full measuring things and need to take notes. Can this output/format tabular data?


When I was playing around with the demo, I gave it a list of things to do and then asked it to convert the list to a markdown table and label the second column estimated duration. It worked like a charm. It set the first column heading to "Description" even.

I was then able to go through my list very quickly and add times to each item.

The one failure I had was when I asked it to add whitespace to visually align the table columns.

The table was, however, converted back into a list when I asked it to turn the text into an email.

It's not exactly punching numbers into a spreadsheet, but it worked pretty well for the simple use case I tried.


Thanks, I'll have to try it out. Ideally I'd like to ask for a table with lettered/numbered columns and rows, and then just call out "B6 is 2.024" as I go.


I don't think it would perform too well in tabular contexts, at least with just natural language, for reasons I've explored in one of my own projects [https://github.com/AmberSahdev/Open-Interface/?tab=readme-ov...].

That said, I would still think it's very doable to set reserved keywords to navigate it ourselves while keeping it conversational.




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