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Life - a timeline of important events in my life
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Life - a timeline of important events in my life

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Life

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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**](http://dcurt.is/facebook-timelines-and-lifepath-me-4) but now it's gone. How about Facebook timeline? Meh.



So, this is it. Have a look at [cheeaun.life](http://cheeaun.life/).



Features

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- 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

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1. Fork this project.

2. Write code.

3. Make pull requests.



How to setup your own *Life*

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1. Fork this project.

2. `git checkout -b gh-pages` (or any branch name you like)

3. Make a copy of `life.example.md`, rename it to `life.md`.

4. Add your life events into `life.md`.

5. Preview it on a local server. Use [`python -m http.server`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.server.html) or [`http-server`](https://github.com/nodeapps/http-server).

6. Commit `life.md` (not in `master` branch).

7. `git push origin gh-pages -f` and publish to [GitHub Pages](http://pages.github.com/).

8. Update the website link in your GitHub repo description.

9. Tell the world about your Life.

10. Add your Life to the [Lives](https://github.com/cheeaun/life/wiki/Lives) page.



How to upgrade your *Life*

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1. `git checkout master`

2. `git remote add cheeaun https://github.com/cheeaun/life.git`

3. `git fetch cheeaun` and `git merge cheeaun/master` to upgrade to latest Life.

4. `git checkout gh-pages` and `git merge master` to sync changes back to GitHub Pages.



[Learn more](https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo).



For those who forked the earlier version of Life, these are the steps that I would recommend (requires some Git-fu):



1. Backup your `life.md`.

2. Reset (hard) your fork to this repo's `master` branch.

3. Clean up your `gh-pages`.

4. Re-commit your `life.md` there.

5. Make sure your `master` branch is untouched so that future updates work.



How to configure your *Life*

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1. Make a copy of `config.example.json`, rename it to `config.json`.

2. Only commit it in `gh-pages` branch.



The configuration:



- `customStylesheetURL` - (*string*, default to `null`) Path to a custom stylesheet file, for those who doesn't like the default *theme*.

- `yearLength` - (*number*, default to `120`) The width of the year grids, in pixels.

- `hideAge` - (*boolean*, default to `false`) Option to hide age from year axis.



Datetime "syntax"

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- `2000` - event that happen in that year

- `01/2000` - event that happen in that month/year

- `01/01/2000` - event that happen exactly in that day/month/year

- `2001-2005`, `10/2001-02/03/2005` - event that happen within the two dates

- `~2005` - event that happen around the time in that year

- `2005-~` - event that happen from that year and beyond (now).



Other people's Lives

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Here's [a compilation of Lives from the people who have forked Life](https://github.com/cheeaun/life/wiki/Lives).



License

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[MIT](http://cheeaun.mit-license.org/)