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Markdown RevChron Stylee

349 words by attila written on 2026-02-27, last edit: 2026-02-27, tags: chronological, doc, markdown, microformat, revchron ⋔ Previous post: A brief history of me ⋔ Next post: On Being Wrong

I think this is enough of a thing to be noted: there is a subformat or microformat or whatever that is using markdown to maintain a sequence of items in reverse chronological order, latest to first. If you maintain files of any size like this you come to realize a few things:

folding is absolutely essential to navigate this shit
write good titles that work when folded
be consistent with date/time format: ISO is probably the way to go: yyyy-mm-dd or optionally yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm technically there is a :ss on the end of the timestamp but we are not, you know, monsters
be consistent with titles: pick a structure and stick with it, in both organizational and textual senses.
let the timestamps do some of the talking: if you include at least the hour then you give some context, can type less
have tooling: i can hit one key and insert a timestamp in vim. this is good. find your tools in whatever you use or make them if you need...
```
" in my .vimrc
map <F2> a<C-R>=strftime("%Y-%m-%d")<CR><Esc>
```

So, for example, the DoC markdown file is good: all the posts and actual content are at heading level 2 and the top level is for a (very) few sections. This makes it easy to bounce around without too much pain.

Fine, so at the end of this TED talk I present to you the skeleton of my microformat: markdown revchron

# Medical Log

This is markdown revchron for my medical log. Entries are under
[#entries](the entries heading), maintained in reverse chronological
order. 

# Entries

## 2026-02-27T08:00 pain meds

  - 15mg Meloxicam: foot pain

## 2026-02-26T19:00 pregabalina

  - 150mg Pregabalina: pinched nerve

# Context

These are some of the medications mentioned in entries.

## Meloxicam

Pain medication. Considered mildly addictive. Very strong.
Affects muscles / disinflamatory, good for blows and trauma.

  - humans: x mg/kg 
  - dogs: y mg/kg
  - usually taken once a day

## Pregabalina

...

## Gabapentina
## Ibuprofena

EOF

I should also produce some CSS to mark up markdown revchron in some nice way.