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Hierarchical spreadsheet: a free-form data organizer that replaces outliners, mind maps and spreadsheets.

21 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 2 stories, 19 comments · first 2013-06-13 · latest 2026-03-08

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  1. …I won't spoil the fun but if you've got 15 minutes it's pretty easy to go through the tutorial. https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets
    comment by aquariusDue · 2026-03-08 · in The Lobster Programming Language
  2. …https://strlen.com/treesheets/docs/screenshots.html & https://hn.algolia.com/?query=treesheets & https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets 1990's doogiePIM for Win continues to receive regular updates from an indie developer,…
    comment by walterbell · 2024-05-25 · in Agenda: a personal information manager (1990) [pdf]
  3. there are many here: https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/tree/master/TS/examp...
    comment by Aardappel · 2023-01-02 · in TreeSheets: Open Source Free Form Data Organizer
  4. …languages. This one looks a bit overly verbose? I suppose someone could write a description of https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/blob/master/TS/docs/... in that specification language to give parsers in many languages. May not be as…
    comment by Aardappel · 2023-01-02 · in TreeSheets: Open Source Free Form Data Organizer
  5. …want to accept incoming network connections? I used the Mac installer linked on the project Github: https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/releases
    comment by rchaud · 2022-12-31 · in TreeSheets: Open Source Free Form Data Organizer
  6. Yes, it is (compressed) binary: https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/blob/master/TS/docs/... TreeSheets tries to be highly efficient in space/time, which is challenging with text formats. There's an option in the menus for auto html…
    comment by Aardappel · 2022-12-30 · in TreeSheets: Open Source Free Form Data Organizer
  7. …fan of using plaintext search over all of my personal data/information, even in siloed apps [2] [1] https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/tree/master/TS/examp... [2] https://beepb00p.xyz/pkm-search.html#personal_information
    comment by karlicoss · 2022-12-30 · in TreeSheets: Open Source Free Form Data Organizer
  8. C++ and wxWidgets under a ZLIB licence; nice! https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets
    comment by password4321 · 2022-12-30 · in TreeSheets: Open Source Free Form Data Organizer
  9. …issue and listed out the gaps in the spec, but haven’t gotten around to updating the spec itself. https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/issues/185 Happy to answer questions about the format.
    comment by quag · 2022-12-30 · in TreeSheets: Open Source Free Form Data Organizer
  10. …be binary, with a simple spec online[2]. [1]: https://strlen.com/treesheets/docs/tutorial.html [2]: https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/blob/master/TS/docs/...
    comment by mhd · 2022-12-30 · in TreeSheets: Open Source Free Form Data Organizer
  11. …of an afterthought. The scripting is “very incomplete” in the words of the author, consider e.g. https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/issues/37
    comment by InflexHQ · 2022-03-31 · in Excel 2.0 – Is there a better visual data model than a grid of cells?
  12. Yup, even with or without installer, see last run here: https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/actions/runs/9514897...
    comment by Aardappel · 2021-06-24 · in Treesheets: cross-platform, free-form data organizer app
  13. …so I could quickly see my treesheets along side other notes in my notebooks. Issue created: https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/issues/185 My (partial) parser in Python: https://gist.github.com/quag/e219f69670cd395d4a59a392557df28...…
    comment by quag · 2021-06-24 · in Treesheets: cross-platform, free-form data organizer app
  14. Does the CI build Windows binaries? I could not find them at https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/actions
    comment by bsg75 · 2021-06-24 · in Treesheets: cross-platform, free-form data organizer app
  15. …have time for. There's not a ton of examples of the scripting functionality yet, but here's one: https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/blob/master/TS/scrip... and the reference (view file locally, sorry):…
    comment by Aardappel · 2021-06-24 · in Treesheets: cross-platform, free-form data organizer app
  16. …it is outdated. If you found inaccuracies, please open an issue, or better a yet a PR for the file https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/blob/master/TS/docs/...
    comment by Aardappel · 2021-06-24 · in Treesheets: cross-platform, free-form data organizer app
  17. …[2]: https://github.com/9214/7guis-red/blob/master/cells.red [3]: https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/tree/master/lobster
    comment by 9214 · 2020-01-04 · in Tabula Scripta: A spreadsheet for small data-driven apps
  18. …it makes it difficult to integrate other tools or feed the data into other systems. [1] https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/tree/master/TS/examp...
    comment by Zikes · 2016-03-08 · in TreeSheets: Free-Form Data Organizer
  19. Is it common for a lot of the source code live in header files? E.g. https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/blob/master/src/cell... I'm not being sarcastic, just curious if this is normally done these days.
    comment by databus · 2013-06-13 · in Treesheets finally became open source