Life
This is something that I've wanted to build for a long time. It's a timeline of important events in my life, visualized in a way my mind always imagine it. There was something called Lifepath.me but now it's gone. How about Facebook timeline? Meh.
So, this is it. Have a look at cheeaun.life.
Features
- Super simple
- No fancy formatting
- No fancy setup
- No fancy effects
- Flexible datetimes because sometimes you don't remember the exact date of an event
How to contribute
- Fork this project.
- Write code.
- Make pull requests.
How to setup your own Life
- Fork this project.
git checkout -b gh-pages(or any branch name you like)- Make a copy of
life.example.md, rename it tolife.md. - Add your life events into
life.md. - Preview it on a local server. Use
python -m http.serverorhttp-server. - Commit
life.md(not inmasterbranch). git push origin gh-pages -fand publish to GitHub Pages.- Update the website link in your GitHub repo description.
- Tell the world about your Life.
- Add your Life to the Lives page.
How to upgrade your Life
git checkout mastergit remote add cheeaun https://github.com/cheeaun/life.gitgit fetch cheeaunandgit merge cheeaun/masterto upgrade to latest Life.git checkout gh-pagesandgit merge masterto sync changes back to GitHub Pages.
For those who forked the earlier version of Life, these are the steps that I would recommend (requires some Git-fu):
- Backup your
life.md. - Reset (hard) your fork to this repo's
masterbranch. - Clean up your
gh-pages. - Re-commit your
life.mdthere. - Make sure your
masterbranch is untouched so that future updates work.
How to configure your Life
- Make a copy of
config.example.json, rename it toconfig.json. - Only commit it in
gh-pagesbranch.
The configuration:
customStylesheetURL- (string, default tonull) Path to a custom stylesheet file, for those who doesn't like the default theme.yearLength- (number, default to120) The width of the year grids, in pixels.hideAge- (boolean, default tofalse) Option to hide age from year axis.
Datetime "syntax"
2000- event that happen in that year01/2000- event that happen in that month/year01/01/2000- event that happen exactly in that day/month/year2001-2005,10/2001-02/03/2005- event that happen within the two dates~2005- event that happen around the time in that year2005-~- event that happen from that year and beyond (now).
Other people's Lives
Here's a compilation of Lives from the people who have forked Life.