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Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

#21
Whoa. This is hella cool. Love the documented spec (https://docs.markwhen.com/syntax/dates-and-ranges.html) and "here's an open spec I'm adding value to with a creature-comforts UI, but not walling you in per-se" approach to funding the thing. Rock on, I'll have to play more with this soon.

UPDATE: There's also a related CLI tool?! Oh HELLS yes. https://github.com/mark-when/mw

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

#22
Suggestion:

Zoom/Magnify feature doesn't feel intuitive with the zoom being centred on the middle of the layout and expanding both to the left and the right. It acts like a vecgtor image editor, rather than like a timeline which tends to have an explicit start point. That behaviour makes it difficult to interact with.

My preference would be to have it start at an anchor somewhere near the left/early edge of the page, then while zooming, to only expand toward the right, pushing the future further away to the right.

Overall really well done!

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

#25
On the landing page, there's a little blurb about a blogging platform (called "re:" I guess?) built on markwhen. But there's no link to any such platform and, well... trying to google "re blogging platform" is an exercise in futility. This is more of a gripe with whoever the heck "re:" is, but I thought I'd throw it out there anyway.

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

#28
post #25

On the landing page, there's a little blurb about a blogging platform (called "re:" I guess?) built on markwhen. But there's no link to any such platform and, well... trying to google "re blogging platform" is an exercise in futility. This is more of a gripe with whoever the heck "re:" is, but I thought I'd throw it out there anyway.

Ah yikes that’s a missed opportunity on my part. It’s https://re.markwhen.com and it’s slightly broken at the moment. Basically it turns markwhen into a blog, each entry is an event. Only entries that are before the current time show up.

You just add ‘re:’ in the header of a shared markwhen and (when I fix it) it shows up as re.markwhen.com/[your username]

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

#30
Really great work. I see great value in an ical translator, to and from if possible.

I'm working in Python land lately and a big fan of these plain text/markup like formats. I might've stumbled on this format before, definitely at least something similar and was excited. Can't promise I'll tackle the job but I do have great interest in looking closer at the format and seeing if I can load it into Python, and if I did then an ical import/export would probably be the first thing I hook up. Sorry if it's poor form to say I'll do it for dirt cheap if anyone wants to fund it, like $15/hour, might take under a week to get something working.

Thanks for the great work and demo that so powerfully illustrates it.

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