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

268 pointsby cheeaunover 11 years ago

34 comments

kaelukaover 11 years ago
kind of similar to my CV: <a href="http://stbr.me/blog/files/cv.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stbr.me&#x2F;blog&#x2F;files&#x2F;cv.pdf</a> (edit: which I did in latex)
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amasadover 11 years ago
Related: I like the timelines on Bret Vector&#x27;s Bio page <a href="http://worrydream.com/#!/Bio" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;worrydream.com&#x2F;#!&#x2F;Bio</a>
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xutopiaover 11 years ago
I&#x27;ve been following Cheeaun&#x27;s work for a few years now. The guy writes plugins for various tools, always hacking away at things. It&#x27;s quite entertaining to see what he comes up with next.
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jongalaover 11 years ago
Looks nice. Also out there, if you didn&#x27;t know, is Preceden, which I have enjoyed using.<p><a href="http://www.preceden.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.preceden.com</a>
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bearwithclawsover 11 years ago
Wow. This is totally cool! I like how simple your implementation is. I can see this is not only useful as timeline of important life events, but also in recording company milestones.<p>Congrates, man!
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toddmoreyover 11 years ago
My quick web search didn&#x27;t show anything without caveats, but if there&#x27;s any decent javascript that can be used to make the mouse wheel scroll the page sideways, that would be a really nice addition.
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jcutrellover 11 years ago
I&#x27;d love to see this as a zoomable timeline, where less important events are less visible when zoomed out, so that the timeline itself is fully visible at 100%.<p>Draggable timeline in a max 100% w&#x2F;h window would fix the scrolling weirdness for folks who care, and would also be usable on a touch device, but I think the interaction should always feel full screen, regardless of where you are in the timeline.<p>Love this idea, quite a lot actually.<p>Perhaps this is marketable to the folks at Timehop? :)
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cateyeover 11 years ago
Why didn&#x27;t you just use this? <a href="https://github.com/NUKnightLab/TimelineJS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NUKnightLab&#x2F;TimelineJS</a>
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rollerlollerover 11 years ago
<a href="http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.simile-widgets.org&#x2F;timeline&#x2F;</a>
rafeedover 11 years ago
Neat, would be cool to add a link or hover over feature too for additional info on a particular event. I&#x27;ll try to work on it if I have time, but hopefully someone else more capable is on it already!
atsaloliover 11 years ago
Reminds me of dandelife. <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/dandelife" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crunchbase.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;dandelife</a><p>This article says dandelife open sourced its software: <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/dandelifes-struggles-offer-lessons-for-start-ups/?_r=0" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dealbook.nytimes.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;01&#x2F;09&#x2F;dandelifes-struggles-...</a>
chacham15over 11 years ago
Why not flip it at the 45 degree axis to make it go vertically instead of horizontally? That way we can scroll normally to see more.
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namuolover 11 years ago
Just once I&#x27;d like to see a site with a horizontal scroll that doesn&#x27;t just assume I&#x27;m using an Apple device.
mergyover 11 years ago
I&#x27;ve used Prezi recently for this as well.<p>Pic &gt;&gt; <a href="https://alpha.app.net/jmergy/post/16369534/photo/1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alpha.app.net&#x2F;jmergy&#x2F;post&#x2F;16369534&#x2F;photo&#x2F;1</a>
kfkover 11 years ago
Nice. I would like to navigate clicking. Also, I would like to see pictures.
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jcutrellover 11 years ago
Note - here&#x27;s a quick shot at how a scrollwheel modification may work: <a href="http://codepen.io/jcutrell/pen/jqiDK" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codepen.io&#x2F;jcutrell&#x2F;pen&#x2F;jqiDK</a>
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meeritaover 11 years ago
Looks wonderful but the horizontal navigation goes out of control. I would take Path&#x27;s approach –if I have to mention something publicly known– to display the important events of your life.
kaspersetover 11 years ago
Another similar project <a href="http://almende.github.io/chap-links-library/timeline.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;almende.github.io&#x2F;chap-links-library&#x2F;timeline.html</a>
thekalebover 11 years ago
Now let&#x27;s have a fork that uses remind[1] syntax.<p>[1]: <a href="http://linux.die.net/man/1/remind" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;linux.die.net&#x2F;man&#x2F;1&#x2F;remind</a>
kuldarover 11 years ago
What&#x27;s the simplest way to run it locally? I don&#x27;t necessarily want to upload it to gh-pages, but simply opening the html won&#x27;t work either.
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ape4over 11 years ago
I can&#x27;t handle the day&#x2F;month&#x2F;year syntax
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techiegirlover 11 years ago
Looks great, I wanted to something similar, glad its here now :) But as most are saying, the horizontal view is not very user friendly!
baliexover 11 years ago
That would make for a really awesome cv&#x2F;resume! And what if each block could also be a timeline of its own for more detail?
ereckersover 11 years ago
Some see a timeline for your life. I see potential for a visualized scheduling app for client projects.<p>Nice work and implementation.
createmyaccountover 11 years ago
Looks great! Would be cool if you could somehow show everything in one screen. Definitely trying it out.
tbirdzover 11 years ago
Something else this could be useful for is in visualization of historical events on a common timeline.
jspcover 11 years ago
The DateTime syntax could be better explained: is it DDMMYYYY? Or MMDDYYYY?
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yoginover 11 years ago
very nice work! I can definitely see adding links to other Life. Linking parent, child, partner, friends, .. you can even have companies ... would create an interesting graph of your life
lzimmover 11 years ago
hey that&#x27;s like the weird website i made for my internets a few years ago! <a href="http://www.lzimm.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lzimm.com</a>
cupofjoakimover 11 years ago
This is really nice. Definitely going to make my own.
n1ghtmare_over 11 years ago
Good stuff. It looks great! Will definitely use it.
dmakover 11 years ago
This idea is great! I love it!
CGudapatiover 11 years ago
Very nice indeed!
ananth99over 11 years ago
Lovely :)