Write a report where the numbers update themselves

Charts are easy to keep current. Sentences are not. “Coffee brought in $960 of $1,800” is typed once and wrong by Friday, and nobody reading it can tell.

How to do it

1. Ask a question, or build a chart, so the number exists as an answer.
2. Press Add the number, or Save as metric to give it a name.
3. Write your sentence around it. The number sits in the text with a faint underline.

When the data changes — a row edited, a sheet refreshed, a new file imported — the number is worked out again, and you are shown what moved: what it was, what it is now.

Why this matters more than it sounds

A report is read for its sentences. If the sentences are stale, the charts beside them do not help, and a reader who spots one wrong number stops trusting the rest. Keeping the prose tied to the data is the difference between a document you rewrite every week and one you refresh.

Where the numbers come from

Every live number points at an answer: a calculation over your rows, which you can open and check. Click one and you are taken to the calculation behind it. Nothing in the writing is a figure somebody typed from memory.

The same is true of the charts, so a card is one object: the data, what was worked out from it, and what you concluded, all in one place and all in step.