sorted-colors VS markwhen

On fonts and colors. Used by some plugins. CSS Colors Chart.js plugin colors

Another fun resource for browsing the built-in colors: https://enes.in/sorted-colors/

And discussion from when it was posted on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26503572

This is great! For those who like this, you may also like https://enes.in/sorted-colors which also does the named web colours.

We’ve moved from using the attributes within HTML tags to using the actual </code> tag the in the head of the HTML doc. This is our introduction to the CSS rule. Much easier on the eyes. I always find it odd that people who are comfortable with JavaScript find CSS confusing. To me this syntax is the most straightforward. I remember the first time I saw the CSS rule and thinking <em>“this makes sense.”</em> It’s actually a lot of fun so it’s easy to get carried away. Sometimes I’ll go nuts and style an element to the point where it makes more sense to just throw together an image in Affinity Designer.</p> <p>Next up was our first challenge. For this we had to create a multi-page site with a nested file structure. Nothing too crazy. Some trial and error. Lots of page refreshing and questioning if you put the 2 periods and slash in the right order, in the right place — welcome to coding. Aside from that we had to style each page slightly differently. For mine I referenced this awesome <a href="https://enes.in/sorted-colors/">color palette generator</a> and threw in some linear-gradients to accent each block element. If you’re interested you can check it <a href="https://peprojects.dev/alpha-3/jose/challenge-1/">here</a>.</p> <p>For the next lesson we got introduced to the pen tool in Affinity Designer and CodePen:</p> <ol> <li> <p>The Pen Tool</p> <ol> <li>Takes some getting used to.</li> <li>I can see it’s power but I suck at it right now.</li> <li>Slowly gaining a natural sense of how to use it.</li> <li>Created this creepy ghost with hollow eyes <em>(see fig. 1)</em>. Don’t judge me.</li> </ol> </li> <li> <p>CodePen</p> <ol> <li>Love this site. 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The creator of this (Chee Aun) is quite prolific and creative with their work (https://cheeaun.com/projects/).

They created https://cheeaun.life, a timeline of their life, more than 10 years ago (which looks to be kept up to date), which was my inspiration for markwhen (https://markwhen.com).

Markwhen

Looks like markwhen[0]. When making it, which initially started out as a strictly timeline-making tool, I realized it is essentially a log or journal language - write a date, any date, and add some stuff to it. Good for notes, blogging, a calendar, etc etc.

[0] https://markwhen.com

https://markwhen.com

I’ve had a lot of these thoughts when working on markwhen. It’s basically turning into a calendar and planning IDE, pretty excited about where it’s heading.

https://markwhen.com - very cool. however, If I could share with you, I would see the value in following case: if I could connect my calendar(s) to it and see what is going on and overlay it with the data here in comment. Use case is both - for retrospective and for planning (for example if you're preparing the meeting and don't want to share content just yet, or jotting something for time in-between meeting what to do, etc)

I realized just over the weekend that the side project I'm working on is in fact a kind of journaling language. It has passed through a number of iterations, started out as a timeline maker (and still does that best), but at the end of the day is a spec for writing what happened when. Or indeed what you hope will happen in the future - I find it's a good planning tool too.

I find myself actually journaling now that I don't have to think about where I'm going to do it, or in the case of most note-taking apps, which note I should put my current thought in. Journal it first, and if it deserves to be somewhere else, move it later.

The project is https://markwhen.com

https://markwhen.com

Timelines in markdown (gantt, calendar, map, other views)

It's open source (https://github.com/mark-when/markwhen) and there are some paid options for storing markwhen documents in the cloud.

Straddling paid SAAS and open source is a bit tricky and I still haven't figured it out completely yet. I have some sponsors as well as some paid saas clients but it's not quite paying the bills yet... I like working on it though, hopefully I can find the right balance or a different revenue model that works better.

Are you familiar with markdown? If so, try markwhen.