I like this, but I don't see an easy way to use it as a library. For example, I'd like to add it to showdown as a plugin, but the API seems too low level for that, at first glance.
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#42Hi Rob, I love the concept. I've played around with it for about 20 minutes now. I use obsidian for almost all my notes and documentation because I like keeping everything as close to plaintext as possible. I also currently use Omniplan for timelines and Gantt charts, so that is what I would be comparing Markwhen to, in terms of functionality. Omniplan is a very mature app and I recommend giving it a try if you haven…
Seconding the request for an Obsidian plugin. I would also gladly pay for a one-off license.
Thirded. As a writer, I'm currently using Aeon Timeline (https://timeline.app/) to track fictional timelines. It does a nice job of handling and displaying the data but it's fairly complex and not Markdown. An Obsidian plugin would be super useful in getting my workflow 100% Markdown.
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#43Really nice project! Thanks for sharing with us! Having structured timekeeping capability in plain text (due dates/deadlines, work estimates, time tracking) is also a core feature of org-mode. Do you have a sense for how your approach compares?
I haven't used org mode. I should probably look into it. If you know how it compares, though, I'm all ears. Always looking to improve.
org-mode is fairly structured by default. It's hierarchal with built in support for properties on nodes. There's a built in format for dates.
Not sure how well any of the non-emacs parsers work though.
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#44Not sure if this is currently possible but I would love if you were able to extract the dates from multiple docs at once. So I could for example have separate docs for different meetings and then put the relevant dates in each specific doc but then have a single view of all dates.
Looking forward to the desktop version.
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#45I thought the application was broken at first. The timeline for the example document is scrolled all the way left to 1986 by default, with no visible scrollbars in Firefox on macOS.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seconding the request for an Obsidian plugin. I would also gladly pay for a one-off license.
Thirded. As a writer, I'm currently using Aeon Timeline ( https://timeline.app/ ) to track fictional timelines. It does a nice job of handling and displaying the data but it's fairly complex and not Markdown. An Obsidian plugin would be super useful in getting my workflow 100% Markdown.
Fourth for an Obsidian plugin, its the perfect environment to get a lot of people to be able to try it out
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#47Random feedback: - On an iPad Pro (iPadOS 16.1.1 - not sure how current that is offhand), the UI is extremely unintuitive and/or broken. Tapping the example landed me in an editor that then took far too long to figure out how to get out of. - It remembers that the editor is up. Once up, getting out and back to the homepage is next to impossible until you figure out the UI (clearing cookies probably would have worked,…
I agree with your point 3. This is more like a DSL for Gantt charts, a bit like what PlantUML is for s/w diagrams.
It's very useful for that, don't get me wrong. But associating it with Markdown is a stretch.
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#48How does this handle dependencies / relationships? Isn’t the real power of Timelines, is being able to adjust one task duration and then have it auto cascade down the impact to all the dependent tasks.
That's a gannt chart though?
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#49MermaidJS is a markdown diagram tool with a huge variety of options including Gantt charts. Might be worth a look as well! I’m on mobile otherwise I’d link to the Gantt directly You can find it in the docs here I believe: https://mermaid.js.org/
I vouched for this because while it does not relate to using markdown to create gantt & timeline charts, it does relate to using code to create said charts and is therefore IMHO a relevant comparable tool. See https://mermaid.js.org/syntax/gantt.html and https://mermaid.js.org/syntax/timeline.html Having said that, it's late tonight but I plan to give this markwhen a good look tomorrow when I'm fresh, because even be…
PlantUML does Gantt charts too completely off line if you want. Kinda ugly but surprisingly powerful. I have managed whole giant projects this way.
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#50The pricing structure I'm going for is offline == free, online/collaborate == paid. There's a promo code on the most recent blog entry ( https://blog.markwhen.com ) for those who are interested
Hm, I am trying to consolidate my toolchain these days. This is neat, but not 'I need another program running / another website in my life' neat. If you make an Obsidian plugin, I'd happily pay for that.