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This is what I am doing with http://timefo.com http://timefo.com . I have a day job, and I do Timefo at night and on weekends, and still have a life. I have hes

by lr 18y ago

This is what I am doing with http://timefo.com http://timefo.com . I have a day job, and I do Timefo at night and on weekends, and still have a life. I have hesitated to outright list it on HN as an "Ask HN" item, but let's just see what happens with this comment... My main concern is that I don't have a lot of time for support, so that is why I have not publicized it more widely.

terpua 18y ago
You should offer this tool as a visualization utility and allow for importing to Wordpress and Powerpoint. Timelines are usually manually intensive to make "pretty" and automating that would be nice.
t0pj 18y ago
So where Facebook wants to own the social map, you're well on your way to owning the social timepiece; excellent.
- lr 18y ago
  Thanks for the vote of confidence!
davidw 18y ago
Definitely post it in its own thread if you're looking for feedback! What is more a part of this site than people doing that? It's much more productive than reading 37signals say the same thing a new way. Here's some comments: - The take a tour image is pixelated and ugly. - It needs something more compelling, IMO, as a reason to use it. It is a neat widget, but nothing I'd think of using. Maybe there are some cool use cases that would get people excited about it. - After just a quick glance, it feels like something that might be good as part of something else. - Clicking and dragging on a timeline (the blog one, for example) is hard because there is too much 'link space' (even where there are no words) as opposed to 'drag space', if that makes sense.
- lr 18y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! The images are pretty bad, so I will try to do better ones this weekend. As you and terpua wrote, it would be more useful if one could use it on a blog for visualization of entries, etc., and that is something I want to work on in the near future. I will post it as an "Ask HN" item soon.
  - carpo 18y ago
    If you are using the "Free Transform" tool in photoshop to rotate the image, I found that rotating and scaling in the same "Free transform" session causes more jagged edges. Doing the rotate first, then doing the scale looked better. Not sure if you are doind that anyway, but the edges of your image looked like mine when i was :)

by lr 18y ago

terpua 18y ago

You should offer this tool as a visualization utility and allow for importing to Wordpress and Powerpoint. Timelines are usually manually intensive to make "pretty" and automating that would be nice.

t0pj 18y ago

So where Facebook wants to own the social map, you're well on your way to owning the social timepiece; excellent.

lr 18y ago
Thanks for the vote of confidence!

davidw 18y ago

Definitely post it in its own thread if you're looking for feedback! What is more a part of this site than people doing that? It's much more productive than reading 37signals say the same thing a new way. Here's some comments: - The take a tour image is pixelated and ugly. - It needs something more compelling, IMO, as a reason to use it. It is a neat widget, but nothing I'd think of using. Maybe there are some cool use cases that would get people excited about it. - After just a quick glance, it feels like something that might be good as part of something else. - Clicking and dragging on a timeline (the blog one, for example) is hard because there is too much 'link space' (even where there are no words) as opposed to 'drag space', if that makes sense.

lr 18y ago
Thanks for the feedback! The images are pretty bad, so I will try to do better ones this weekend. As you and terpua wrote, it would be more useful if one could use it on a blog for visualization of entries, etc., and that is something I want to work on in the near future. I will post it as an "Ask HN" item soon.
- carpo 18y ago
  If you are using the "Free Transform" tool in photoshop to rotate the image, I found that rotating and scaling in the same "Free transform" session causes more jagged edges. Doing the rotate first, then doing the scale looked better. Not sure if you are doind that anyway, but the edges of your image looked like mine when i was :)