Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

Re:Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines by koch on Monday July 31, 2023 @11:34AM (#36944192)

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!

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Re:Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines by throwaway888abc on Monday July 31, 2023 @02:45PM (#36947081)

Very cool a very polished! Bookmarked

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Re:Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines by Terretta on Monday July 31, 2023 @02:52PM (#36947166)

I wanted this to be awesome, but on iPad (Safari/WebKit) all entries in the example are dots with no time length.

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Re:Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines by koch on Monday July 31, 2023 @03:25PM (#36947570)

Oh :/ Even after zooming in? Or zooming in doesn’t work?

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Re:Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines by glorioushubris on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:25PM (#36948275)

Zooming in works on my iPad.

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Re:Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines by oarsinsync on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:25PM (#36948281)

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!

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Re:Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines by Grimburger on Monday July 31, 2023 @08:54PM (#36950986)

I'm getting the same, it's zoomed out to 2140.

Centering and zooming doesn't work either. The "centre" seems quite offset and ends up in the 2030's

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Re:Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines by Terretta on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @08:39AM (#36955211)

Ok, indeed: default zoom is 1920 to 2140, just in case my projects last 120 years.

If I zoom to 2023 to, say, 2025, it makes visual sense.

Do you have or plan to let timelines or subsets of timelines be embedded with kroki.io and/or Mermaid, and later support for e.g. pandoc (.svg and .png fallbacks)?

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