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Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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Post by koch »

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.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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Post by moasda »

koch wrote: post #2

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 ou…

Cool tool, thanks for sharing!

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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Post by prepend »

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.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

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