Numi

Numi is a handy calculator app for macOS. It allows to describe tasks the natural way and instantly get an accurate answer. For example, $20 in euro - 5% discount or today + 2 weeks.

You can use JavaScript extensions to add global variables, custom units or functions. Right now only limited set of API is available via JavaScript, but the plan is to open as much API as possible.

Table of Contents

• Logging
• Values and Variables
• Custom Units
• Custom Functions
• List of Base Units
• Alfred integration

Logging

Use log function to send output from your extension to log window.

log("Function called!");

Values and Variables

Each value in Numi might be represented in JavaScript as an object with a set of properties, describing decimal value, unit type etc. Here is the usual way of creating new values for Numi:

var value = { "double": 5, "unitId" : "USD" }

Use numi.setVariable function to declare global variables.

numi.setVariable("xxx", { "double": 5, "unitId" : "USD" });

You can also use plain JavaScript numbers for cases when you'll need to return value for Numi. This will be treated as a value with decimal number.

numi.setVariable("yyy", 122);

Custom Units

Use numi.addUnit to add new unit. id field required for internal use, and might be any unique literal. phrases contains string with comma-separated phrases that might be used for the unit, format field used for results formatting.

Unit conversion limited to ratio-based conversion ATM. For each unit you can specify base unit identifier baseUnitId and ratio to that unit. Conversion from one unit to another in this case happening through base unit. On first step value will be converted to the base unit. On second step base value will be converted to result unit. baseUnitId might be picked up from list of base units.

numi.addUnit({
    "id": "horse",
    "phrases": "horse, horses, hrs",
    "baseUnitId": "m",
    "format" : "hrs",
    "ratio" : 2.4,
});

Custom Functions

Use numi.addFunction to add new function. Values passed into evaluated function in form of array. To use function with multiple arguments you can use ; in Numi, like myFunction(1;5;4).

numi.addFunction({ "id": "zum", "phrases": "zum" }, function(values) {
    return { "double": values[0].double + values[1].double };
});

List of Base Units

Unit name	Unit ID
Meter	m
Second	second
Percentage	percent
Square meter	m2
Cubic meter	m3
Bit	bit
Byte	byte
Radian	radian
Gram	gram
US Dollars	USD

Sample Extensions

• Fluid ounces

Alfred integration

You can use Numi with Alfred for quick calculations. Just type numi, n or = in front of your expressions in Alfred. First you will need to install the Numi workflow, and enable Alfred integration in Numi preferences. The workflow can also be installed easily with Homebrew-alfred:

brew tap danielbayley/alfred
brew cask install alfred-numi