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Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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Post by account42 »

thunfisch wrote: post #63
dimava wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because this is ISO 8601 date format, the standard date format that intentionally uses dashes to not confuse 25/01/22, 01/22/25 and 22/01/26 which are the same date in different formats (that's why it uses dashes for dates, as for why it uses / for interval I have no idea)

It's using a slash because that's how ISO 8601 defines time intervals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Time_intervals

Doesn't look like IOS 8601 allows spaces though so this is still an ad-hoc syntax.

RFC3339 at least lets you replace the ugly T with a space but also doesn't specify any spaces around "/" for ranges.

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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Post by account42 »

dustedcodes wrote: post #58

Things like Markdown work because they are intuitive, but the date range syntax in Markwhen is anything but intuitive. Why 2025-01-22 / 2026-10-24? Why not 2025/01/22 - 2026/10/24?

I'm with you on / not being a good range separator but using it for the individual dates is much much worse. Please stick to - for YYYY-MM-DD to avoid confusion and keep / restricted to inbred date formats.

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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Post by uludag »

dotancohen wrote: post #47

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.

Just to name a few, https://github.com/legalnonsense/elgantt/, https://github.com/elsatch/org-timeline-viewer, https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-taskjuggler.html . Org-mode users and things like this seem to be like moths and a fire. I'm always surprised by the sheer amount of packages written for org-mode, a package itself of a rather niche piece of software.

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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Post by Siira »

mturk wrote: post #26
doctorhandshake wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry if this is a dumb Q but what took that from Markwhen/down to HTML?

Not a dumb question! Markwhen has a CLI: https://docs.markwhen.com/cli that I used.

If it could output PNG, it could be adapted as a code block with its own language in org-mode.

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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Post by kerneis »

AlanYx wrote: post #54
accrual wrote: post #14

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.

https://newsletter.pnote.eu/p/life-in-weeks and it's interactive (you can make your own timeline)
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