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Re: Show HN: Life – A timeline of important events in (your) life

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Post by contingencies »

matt1 wrote: post #33
jongala wrote: post #17

Looks nice. Also out there, if you didn't know, is Preceden, which I have enjoyed using. http://www.preceden.com

Preceden creator here; thank you for the mention. Fun fact: Preceden was launched on HN almost four years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1114834 :)

JS has some OK solutions these days (yours was probably very early), but print and other formats can be a hassle.

For example, I spent some time looking at TeX solutions for timelines a few years back and found there were none with support for decent multi-page rendering, etc.

I spent a few hours over the last few days finally improving https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Buddhist_traditions_t... too.

Conclusion: everyone loves a good timeline. Spatial reasoning is a great way to simplify huge collections of dates and times to filter for visual trends. Unfortunately, there's really few good tools. There probably needs to be a standard markup language in this space.

Re: Show HN: Life – A timeline of important events in (your) life

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Post by yeukhon »

mildavw wrote: post #89
xutopia wrote: post #8

I've been following Cheeaun's work for a few years now. The guy writes plugins for various tools, always hacking away at things. It's quite entertaining to see what he comes up with next.

I've been using his http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ to read HN on my phone for a while (is it years yet?) now. I try others as they appear and so far continually go back to his.

1. you have to click on the comment icon to actually read icons

2. like most of the ios apps out there, there is no thread-level support. All comments are on the same level.

Re: Show HN: Life – A timeline of important events in (your) life

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Post by msutherl »

toddmorey wrote: post #4

My quick web search didn't show anything without caveats, but if there's any decent javascript that can be used to make the mouse wheel scroll the page sideways, that would be a really nice addition.

Incidentally the new Myspace does this to good effect.

Re: Show HN: Life – A timeline of important events in (your) life

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Post by mildavw »

yeukhon wrote: post #93
mildavw wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using his http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ to read HN on my phone for a while (is it years yet?) now. I try others as they appear and so far continually go back to his.

1. you have to click on the comment icon to actually read icons 2. like most of the ios apps out there, there is no thread-level support. All comments are on the same level.

1. I don't see a problem with it. Go to the right for the details and back to the left for the front page. Makes sense.

2. ??? Comments threads are collapsible and indented properly.

Are you perhaps not looking at it on a phone? Try it on an iPhone, it's great.

Re: Show HN: Life – A timeline of important events in (your) life

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Post by NathanthePie »

msutherl wrote: post #94
toddmorey wrote: post #4

My quick web search didn't show anything without caveats, but if there's any decent javascript that can be used to make the mouse wheel scroll the page sideways, that would be a really nice addition.

Incidentally the new Myspace does this to good effect.

Wow. The new Myspace is actually quite beautiful.
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