mark-when/markwhen

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Markwhen is a markdown-like journal language and toolchain that converts plain text with dates into JSON, which is rendered as cascading timelines, calendars, and other views. This repository hosts the view container; the parser, timeline, calendar views, and VS Code extension live in sibling repositories under the mark-when organization.

Use cases

• create a gantt chart from plain markdown text
• visualize a project timeline by writing dates in a text file
• turn a markdown journal into a cascading timeline
• render a calendar view from markdown-like event text
• plan a project schedule without heavyweight PM software
• embed an interactive timeline in a web page or VS Code

When to choose

• you want to author timelines or gantt charts as plain text
• you prefer lightweight text-based project planning over GUI tools
• you need multiple output views (timeline, calendar, resume) from one document
• you want a VS Code workflow for timeline documents

When to avoid

• you need a full-featured GUI project management suite with dependencies and resource allocation
• you need the hosted editor itself, which is not open source
• you require real-time multi-user scheduling or calendar sync with external services

Facets

application · maturity active

data-visualization parser templating developer-tools data-visualization developer-tools web-development text-editors browser cross-platform editor-plugin timeline gantt-chart markdown calendar text-to-timeline vscode-extension journaling project-management automation web-server

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