This looks neat. I wish it used iso8601 [0] dates. It’s pretty convenient as the time periods uses the format YYYY-MM-DD/YYYY-MM-DD and I think is easier to mentally parse than MM/DD/YYYY-MM/DD/YYYY.
Of course I didn’t even know what a solidus (“/“) was until using iso8601.
Also, I usually find standards pretty much as overhead, but 8601 seems pretty good as a universal standard.
As someone who grew up in the US, it's still bizarre as a programmer to have a mixed-significance ordering (MM-DD-YYYY) instead of any consistently-endian ordering (DD-MM-YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD).
Out of curiosity, in what order do Europeans verbally say full dates with month names? Or does it vary by language?
I’ve been working on markwhen as a way to easily create timelines just from text.
I’ve used it personally to help plan and coordinate my own wedding (https://markwhen.com/rob/wedding) and for keeping track of life events, and I’ve seen it used for event planning, project management, and to visualize historical events or periods of time.
I personally like tools that let you immediately start using them, and I set out to do that here with markwhen.
This is awesome! I want to see other tools like this. I dream of a project management system that is text based and lives in your codebase seems we are pretty close with this. Planning (this), comments / descriptions (markdown), identity / people (??), tickets (??) Anyone know of something like this?
While the Gantt in Mermaid is decent, this would be far, far superior as a bidirectional plugin (i.e capable of both visualisation and editing the original markdown).
This is an excellent landing page that immediately draws my attention and shows why I'd want to use this. This is a great example of how a landing page can demonstrate a tool quickly.
Anyone ever run across anything like this with a simple syntax that can do a timeline with split AND merges? I've always wanted something like the linux timeline [1] as an interactive timeline that can both split and merge.
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Of course I didn’t even know what a solidus (“/“) was until using iso8601.
Also, I usually find standards pretty much as overhead, but 8601 seems pretty good as a universal standard.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
Especially for those outside the USA!
Out of curiosity, in what order do Europeans verbally say full dates with month names? Or does it vary by language?
`2022-08-02T23:00:00.000Z - 2022-08-03T00:00:00.000Z: Event`
but in general I do need to figure out a way to allow more customizable date parsing.[0]
[0]https://github.com/kochrt/markwhen/issues/27
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I’ve used it personally to help plan and coordinate my own wedding (https://markwhen.com/rob/wedding) and for keeping track of life events, and I’ve seen it used for event planning, project management, and to visualize historical events or periods of time.
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!
Did you build the timeline UI yourself? Can it be used as a library?
[0]: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner
[1]: https://twitter.com/timelinize
Once nice thing about Mermaid is it's built into [GitHub's markdown](https://github.blog/2022-02-14-include-diagrams-markdown-fil...) and has support in Notion
I'd happily pay for this as an Obsidian plugin.
Missed opportunity not naming it "Markdown for When (feat Lil Jon)
[1]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Di...