[HN Gopher] Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines
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Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines
I've been working on markwhen for a bit as a way to create
timelines and calendars from plain text, like markdown. I
personally like tools that let you immediately start using them,
and I set out to do that here with markwhen. Let me know if you
have any questions or feedback!
Author : koch
Score : 110 points
Date : 2023-07-31 15:31 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (app.markwhen.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (app.markwhen.com)
| koch wrote:
| The pricing structure I'm going for is offline == free,
| online/collaborate == paid.
|
| There's a promo code on the most recent blog entry
| (https://blog.markwhen.com) for those who are interested
| mholt wrote:
| This is neat! I've been following it for a few months.
|
| Would my app be able to generate a Markwhen file and then embed
| the viewer to view it? Would that be free or paid?
| koch wrote:
| The viewer is open source[0], so yeah you can embed it in an
| iframe (that's what the editor does), and just `postMessage`
| the parsed markwhen and some additional state to it. The
| structure of the posted data is here[1]. I'm happy to help,
| rob@markwhen.com or I'm in the markwhen discord[2]
|
| [0] https://github.com/mark-when/timeline
|
| [1] https://github.com/mark-when/view-
| client/blob/9eddc1a2cf79b4...
|
| [2] https://discord.gg/3rTpUD94ac
| tony_cannistra wrote:
| This is not only excellent, but has a great working example that
| doesn't feel like a toy and showcases the app's features. Great
| work! Especially on the presentation of the app's value.
| [deleted]
| murphyslab wrote:
| Suggestion:
|
| Zoom/Magnify feature doesn't feel intuitive with the zoom being
| centred on the middle of the layout and expanding both to the
| left and the right. It acts like a vecgtor image editor, rather
| than like a timeline which tends to have an explicit start point.
| That behaviour makes it difficult to interact with.
|
| My preference would be to have it start at an anchor somewhere
| near the left/early edge of the page, then while zooming, to only
| expand toward the right, pushing the future further away to the
| right.
|
| Overall really well done!
| prydt wrote:
| This looks awesome! Great idea and UI.
| rg111 wrote:
| I have been using Markwhen since ~6 months. It's nice. I use it
| to track life events and books/projects/moocs etc.
| koch wrote:
| Ah that's so wonderful to hear! I'm glad it's working for you!
| Crowberry wrote:
| Looks really useful! I would love to have this as an obsidian or
| vscode plugin to run locally
| jonas-w wrote:
| They have a vscode extension
| https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Markwhen...
| throwaway888abc wrote:
| Very cool a very polished! Bookmarked
| ApolloRising wrote:
| Very well done, have you considered a one time price for
| personal? Many of us hate the monthly type charges for a tool we
| only use sometimes.
| pologreen1978 wrote:
| OMG, this is awesome!
|
| This is what I needed for a current project!
|
| Thank you!
| gcr wrote:
| Really nice project! Thanks for sharing with us!
|
| Having structured timekeeping capability in plain text (due
| dates/deadlines, work estimates, time tracking) is also a core
| feature of org-mode. Do you have a sense for how your approach
| compares?
| koch wrote:
| I haven't used org mode. I should probably look into it. If you
| know how it compares, though, I'm all ears. Always looking to
| improve.
| klardotsh wrote:
| Whoa. This is hella cool. Love the documented spec
| (https://docs.markwhen.com/syntax/dates-and-ranges.html) and
| "here's an open spec I'm adding value to with a creature-comforts
| UI, but not walling you in per-se" approach to funding the thing.
| Rock on, I'll have to play more with this soon.
| Terretta wrote:
| I wanted this to be awesome, but on iPad (Safari/WebKit) all
| entries in the example are dots with no time length.
| koch wrote:
| Oh :/ Even after zooming in? Or zooming in doesn't work?
| glorioushubris wrote:
| Zooming in works on my iPad.
| oarsinsync wrote:
| The default view is super zoomed out. The zoom itself is a
| bit .. fussy.
|
| That said, it works, and is impressive all the same. Good
| work!
| jmisavage wrote:
| Interesting project. Mermaid has an experimental syntax for
| timelines too. You might want to look at it for ideas.
|
| https://mermaid.js.org/syntax/timeline.html
| jbaber wrote:
| I've wanted something like this for a very long time and made
| lots of half-hearted attempts.
|
| Thank you.
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