Epochlore
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In my spare time, I've been creating the world for a series of stories I'm writing. In order to support keeping track of historical events in my world, I built a small app that lets you create and document timelines, visually display them, and let you edit them. It backs up your work to a plain markdown file, making it super convenient for saving to git, or migrating to a different system.
The backing file format is simple: each top-level heading is a timeline,
headings are events or spans, and metadata lives on ##
lines. Dates go in brackets; a span is >
:[start .. end]
# Earth 21st century
> id=CE
> epoch=2025
## [2025-07-13] Second contact
A faint repeating pulse is picked up by the array.
## [2026 .. 2030-10] The Quiet Years
> color=green
A long period of preparation and uncertainty.
A hosted copy of the app is embedded below:
