Lumiate vs ThingieQuery

Reduce stress and anxiety while using your laptop productively

Whether it be deadlines, commitments, or just the belief that you are behind, feelings of busyness and stress go hand in hand. It's the worst time find stress relief, but it's when you need it most. Lumiate works while you work, reducing stress and anxiety while you stay focused. Lumiate continuously pulses the hue of the screen like the breath cycle, fading into the background like music during work, but available for light-guided meditation and deep breathing when needed. And when it is time to take a break and renew your energy, guided meditation is just a click away.

Location: Denver, United States

A SQL IDE for Excel

ThingieQuery is a plugin for Excel that enhances the user's productivity by enabling the use of SQL inside Excel, and additionally combining it with VBA, regular expressions and other popular technologies.

Its goal is to make SQL operations accessible in Excel so they can be used easily and often. It has a minimalist user interface and a short learning curve while still adding a huge amount of expressiveness and power to the user.

It is not a plugin that does one specific thing, like merging tables, or removing duplicates. Rather, it's a tool that serves to enable the user's existing knowledge and skills in a setting that has limited native support for them.

Joining tables, filtering, grouping etc. are just a start. With its ability to automate writing results, its VBA automation API, its ability to call into VBA functions and subroutines and its ability to use external database engines to process Excel data, possibilities for making your Excel chores easier and faster are abundant.