[HN Gopher] Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines
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Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines
Author : koch
Score : 138 points
Date : 2024-12-01 17:58 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (markwhen.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (markwhen.com)
| wild_egg wrote:
| Seems not right for the comments here to be empty but I don't
| have much to say other than this looks incredibly nice. Hope I
| have an excuse to use it at some point.
|
| Thanks for sharing!
| yawnxyz wrote:
| two years ago, this post got almost 400 points!
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31810876
| capnahab wrote:
| seconded.
| jbaber wrote:
| Is there support for date ranges? e.g. 2024-12-25 - 2025-01-06 ?
| ks2048 wrote:
| It's the second example in "Basic Syntax" on the right.
| snappr021 wrote:
| This looks very good.
|
| Is there syntax for dependent tasks in the timeline? In other
| words tasks that only start once prerequisites are done.
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| If the date of the original tasks changes, the dependent tasks
| move accordingly automatically, without needing to edit a full
| list of dates for each dependent item.
| genezeta wrote:
| It's a _timeline_ that tracks events and periods. It doesn 't
| seem to have the concept of a _task_ in any way.
| KaoruAoiShiho wrote:
| It has checklists
| sleepyfran wrote:
| This looks amazing, will definitely try to incorporate it into my
| workflow!
| sprobertson wrote:
| Besides the tool itself that website typography is excellent.
| Guess I'll have to use Playfair in my next project.
|
| Edit: One thing I'd like to see with the basic syntax example is
| fiddle with your default dates to make it more obvious that the
| span is a span. At the time scale it is now, it just looks like
| another dot.
| KaoruAoiShiho wrote:
| Any chance you can copy some of this for aesthetics?
| https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/timeline/shared/3118/Home-...
| owlglass wrote:
| Hopefully without the latency, it's slow to respond on a 2022
| M2 Macbook Air (tried Firefox and Safari)
| neumann wrote:
| Just in case anyone else is out of the loop like me. This can be
| used as a plugin in obsidian!
| https://obsidian.md/plugins?search=markw
| accrual wrote:
| This is neat! It reminded me of this project by cheeaun that
| enables one to create a visual timeline based on a simple texted
| based format. The purpose was to plot one's life events in a
| visual way.
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| https://github.com/cheeaun/life
|
| Sample file (from the repository): @USERNAME's
| life =============== - 24/02/1955 Born
| - ~1968 Summer job - 03/1976 Built a computer -
| 01/04/1976 Started a company - 04/1976-2011 Whole bunch
| of interesting events
| x1ph0z wrote:
| Really cool project, looking forward to using it in Obsidian.
| robinhowlett wrote:
| This looks excellent - i've been looking for a timeline-based,
| simple-entry tool like this. Well done.
| KaoruAoiShiho wrote:
| Does this work at all for fantasy timelines?
|
| Trying to build a timeline like this:
|
| title: History of the World
|
| 0: Foo Calendar's civilization founding.
|
| 124: Invention of the Foo Calendar
|
| 220: Founding of Bar
|
| 1310: Invention of GlooblyGock
|
| 5621: Demon invasion.
|
| Edit: After trying it don't think it works for this usecase.
| jiangplus wrote:
| This reminds me of blocks.md (https://blocks.md/), a Markdown
| based form builder.
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