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Event Descriptions

An event description is everything after the date range of the event, up to the next event. Event descriptions can span multiple lines. For 12/2012: End of the world, the event description is just End of the world. For the following event:

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1961: Year after 1960
Later, 1962 would happen

the event description is

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Year after 1960
Later, 1962 would happen

Event descriptions can include tags, links, photos, and references.

Tags

Events can be tagged to visually indicate they belong to some category. Simply add your tag text in any part of an event's description to tag it:

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2022: Happy 95th Birthday Queen Elizabeth #UK #Royalty

Links are similar to markdown links: link display text in brackets followed by the url in parentheses:

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2018 - 3 years: [Google](www.google.com)

Locations

For vizualizations that support locations, add a property to the event:

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09/2018: Road trip to Seattle
locations: [Devil's Tower, Glacier National Park, Seattle]
 
1999-05-25: A fond memory
location: Sam's bar and grill

Photos

Markdown-style images are supported: ![optional alt text](image link)

Task list

Markdown task lists are supported:

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now: Things to do
- [ ] unfinished task
- [x] finished task

Percent

Indicate that an event is some percent complete by including 0-100% in your event, and the event bar will be partially filled in to show the completion percentage.

When no percent is present, the completion ratio of tasks will be used to represent the percent complete and will be indicated in the event bar.