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timeline maker

SHOW HN2021

132points
13comments
#390of 2,533 in 2021
Top 16%of 2021 by points

How HN took it

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3 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.25.

Idea: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Simple syntax that is easy to grasp

    From 1 comment
    • This is great! Love the simple syntax that anyone could grasp in just a few seconds. Nice work! Some feature requests: - Be able to resize the "code" pane and the preview -…
      capableweb on HN
  • Visual display shows more than text

    From 1 comment
    • Nice work! It always amazes me how a visual display of the data can show us so much more than the simple text version. "A picture is worth a thousand words" as the saying goes :)…
      blaze33 on HN

Requests

  • ISO 8601 date format

    From 3 comments
    • This is great! Love the simple syntax that anyone could grasp in just a few seconds. Nice work! Some feature requests: - Be able to resize the "code" pane and the preview -…
      capableweb on HN
    • This is awesome! Feature requests: - ISO 8601 dates please, not everyone is in the US - Color coding and/or topic headers so I can break it up into different sections for…
      Chilko on HN
    • This is really neat! As someone mentioned: a more standardized format of ISO 8601 would be a great and welcome change. I'm not entirely sure whether the current code would…
      usrme on HN
  • Color coding or topic sections for event types

    From 2 comments
    • This is awesome! Feature requests: - ISO 8601 dates please, not everyone is in the US - Color coding and/or topic headers so I can break it up into different sections for…
      Chilko on HN
    • Very cool and well done! Feature request #1 - color coding different types of events.
      johnnyballgame on HN
  • Faster update of timeline on change

    From 2 comments
    • This is great! Love the simple syntax that anyone could grasp in just a few seconds. Nice work! Some feature requests: - Be able to resize the "code" pane and the preview -…
      capableweb on HN
    • Faster update of the timeline on change I agree. If you're still processing a previous change you can defer subsequent updates (to what I assume is your polling mechanism), but…
      rkagerer on HN
  • Emoji support

    From 1 comment
    • This is awesome! Feature requests: - ISO 8601 dates please, not everyone is in the US - Color coding and/or topic headers so I can break it up into different sections for…
      Chilko on HN
  • Resizable code and preview panes

    From 1 comment
    • This is great! Love the simple syntax that anyone could grasp in just a few seconds. Nice work! Some feature requests: - Be able to resize the "code" pane and the preview -…
      capableweb on HN

Questions

  • Why the stripped-down Markdown-like syntax and different date range format

    From 1 comment
    • Hey that's me! Wow it's nice to know that my old post/project is still being mentioned now :D I'm no longer adding features to Life [1]. There were too many feature requests for…
      cheeaun on HN

Alternatives named

  • Life timeline by cheeaun

    From 2 comments
    • Some of you may remember @cheeaun's post[1] 9 years ago about making a timeline of life events. I made a timeline maker based off that. [1]…
      koch on HN
    • Hey that's me! Wow it's nice to know that my old post/project is still being mentioned now :D I'm no longer adding features to Life [1]. There were too many feature requests for…
      cheeaun on HN
  • Refresh.study browsing history timeline

    From 1 comment
    • Very cool! I've been thinking a lot about how to do this in a good cross platform way for tab history on a browser I've been building (https://synth.app). I think a major issue…
      parhamn on HN

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