Markwhen
Productivity
timeline planning
SHOW HN2023
327points
58comments
#125of 3,109 in 2023
Top 5%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
17 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 7 mixed, 5 critical, out of 43 comments about the project. Thread score +0.29.
Idea: 6 for, 0 againstDesign: 3 for, 2 againstDocs: 2 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Polished UI and great documentation and example
From 3 comments
This is not only excellent, but has a great working example that doesn't feel like a toy and showcases the app's features. Great work! Especially on the presentation of the app's…
tony_cannistra on HNWow! This is cool. Love how the documentation is done
byndlimitsfy on HNWhoa. 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…
klardotsh on HN
Useful for tracking life events and projects
From 1 comment
I have been using Markwhen since ~6 months. It's nice. I use it to track life events and books/projects/moocs etc.
rg111 on HN
Objections
Syntax for sections and groups is wordy and not as readable as markdown
From 2 comments
Random 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…
floating-io on HNI 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…
kitd on HN
Broken or unintuitive on iPad and mobile
From 3 comments
Random 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…
floating-io on HNI wanted this to be awesome, but on iPad (Safari/WebKit) all entries in the example are dots with no time length.
Terretta on HNIs it just me, or is this completly broken on mobile?
_kasper on HN
Default zoom shows years far into the future, hard to navigate
From 3 comments
I 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…
jamesgeck0 on HNOk, indeed: default zoom is 1920 to 2140, just in case my projects last 120 years. If I zoom to 2023 to, say, 2025, it makes visual sense. Do you have or plan to let timelines or…
Terretta on HNI'm getting the same, it's zoomed out to 2140. Centering and zooming doesn't work either. The "centre" seems quite offset and ends up in the 2030's
Grimburger on HN
Requests
Obsidian plugin
From 4 comments
Hi 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…
zakary on HNSeconding the request for an Obsidian plugin. I would also gladly pay for a one-off license.
Feuilles_Mortes on HNThirded. 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…
StoneTable on HNFourth for an Obsidian plugin, its the perfect environment to get a lot of people to be able to try it out
npunt on HN
VS Code or Obsidian plugin for paid integration
From 1 comment
As others said, markwhen is awesome, but I'm not sure I'd use it as a standalone tool. I would definitely pay for a VSCode and Obsidian plugin to easily integrate it in existing…
davidktr on HN
iCal import and export
From 1 comment
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…
harlanji on HN
Questions
How dependencies between tasks are handled
From 1 comment
How 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…
alberth on HN
Whether a library or API is available for embedding
From 2 comments
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.
javajosh on HNThis timeline component is gorgeous, I would love to use it as a lib for some other project
delfaras on HN
Alternatives named
Mermaid timeline and gantt syntax
From 2 comments
Interesting project. Mermaid has an experimental syntax for timelines too. You might want to look at it for ideas. https://mermaid.js.org/syntax/timeline.html
jmisavage on HNI've been trying to find something like this, because I dislike most product roadmap tools and yet I need to use them often. Mermaid has an okay-ish gantt chart but it feels…
danielvaughn on HN
org-mode
From 1 comment
Really 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…
gcr on HN
Omniplan
From 1 comment
Hi 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…
zakary on HN
Aeon Timeline
From 1 comment
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…
StoneTable on HN