Add a Block to pages for Date - and dynamically add to Timeline
planned
Joshua Robison
Would be great to be able to add a Date block on an article, and an option to add items to a timeline with a search of Date Block and tag filters (for example, any article with a date block and including the tags 'event' and 'Kingdom of Thisplaceland' gets added to a 'Thisplaceland timeline'). This would make building timelines from article workflows very easy and dynamic
CRASH
I would also suggest having an inline sort of block that can calculate and display the time since a given date (or between two dates with an option for "today"). This requires the implementation of the "Current Date" feature a few other folks have requested, but it gives people a lot of powerful tools. For example...
- Have character ages update automatically as their birthdays pass or when you start a new campaign that begins 20 years after the previous one.
- Have dynamic RELATIVE references to time in article. This makes it easier to write in a natural way about history. Rather than saying "The Great Cow Civil War began in 120 CT." and forcing people to go look at the calendar to more easily understand the context of the time frame, you can say "The Great Cow Civil War began [200] years ago".
Both of these things meaning you don't have to go update a slew of pages every time the date changes would be amazing time savers and headache preventers.
Mike Whitaker
Awesome. :D
Braden
marked this post as
planned
Will be coming in a followup update!
Joshua Robison
Huzzah! Timelines is awesome so far, really love it!