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How would one go about creating Obsidian support for a timeline that was scattered across multiple files?

I'm thinking like the network visualizer that Obsidian has, it would be great if it could find tagged dates in any file and display them on a common timeline.

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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Big fan of timelines. I am going to use this for sure

Have had an idea for a timeline search/visualization. Search a thing and that pulls pages and related pages with date/times from Wikipedia. With a zoom in/out to adjust resolution like google maps - weight nodes on timeline based on page views/edits/links. Have not gotten around to try to make something like it. I bring it up here just in case something already exists and I missed it.

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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Again reimplementing Emacs Org mode. Nice work! This looks terrific, but honestly Markdown is a document markup language. Org mode, while superficially similar in scope, is actually a data storage and exchange format. The data manipulation and querying built around Org mode are unlikely to be replicated in Markdown.

Agree. This could be easily done in org. I feel that if org was more popular, a lot of these solutions would disappear, or would be a small project that just reads some org properties. I guess it would be key to have better support for easier editors, like vscode and maybe even a dedicated editor

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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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. 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…

That is a great project! I wonder if anyone has created a visualization that uses a "life in weeks" format (like https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html ) rather than a linear horizontal timeline.

I do :)

https://jvidal.dev/memento-mori

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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Creator here - glad to see people like markwhen! Been working on markwhen for a few years now, originally inspired by cheeaun's life timeline that another commenter posted about. At this point markwhen is available as a VS Code extension, Obsidian plugin, CLI tool, and web editor in Meridiem. Some recent markwhen developments: - Dial, a fork of bolt.new (Stackblitz's very cool tool that leverages AI to help quickly s…

Remark.ing sounds incredible. I've been considering building something like Memos but based on Markdown files rather than a relational database for personal use, but this comes really close to what I was looking for.

Are you planning to open source it? I couldn't find it on your GitHub.

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