Timeline Creator Guide

Everything you need to build, organize, and share a timeline, from your first event to a finished PDF.

Your first timeline in three steps

1. Create a timeline: choose real-world dates or a calendar you invent for your world.
2. Add events: click New event. A title and a date are all you need.
3. Organize and share: group events into eras, then export a PDF or share a link.

Get started

Start a timeline

Start blank, from a ready-made template, or from a file you saved before.

Pick a calendar

Use a modern calendar for real-world dates, or a fictional calendar with your own eras, months, weekdays, and holidays.

Build your story

Add events

An event is anything that happens. It only needs a title and a date.

Eras

Split your timeline into ages or chapters, each with its own color.

Story elements

Characters, places, factions, and plotlines, linked to the events they appear in.

Cause and effect

Mark which events cause, depend on, or foreshadow others, then see them as a web in the Connections view.

Campaigns and categories

Categories say what kind of event it is. Campaigns group events into arcs or storylines.

Maps and boards

Maps

Upload a map of your world, drop pins, and link them to places and events.

Whiteboards

An open canvas for planning, with notes, arrows, and cards for your events and characters.

Media library

Upload images once and reuse them on events, story elements, maps, and boards.

Explore and check

Five ways to see your events

Timeline, Chronicle, Outline, Story, and Calendar views all show the same events.

Search and filter

Find any event fast, or narrow the view to one era, category, tag, story element, campaign, or map.

Continuity checks

Timeline Creator flags dates that break your story's logic, like an effect that happens before its cause.

Save and share

Save and export

Your work saves automatically in your browser. Export a backup file, a PDF, an image, or copy your timeline as text or Markdown.

Cloud and sharing

Sign in to keep timelines in your account, restore old versions, and share a read-only link.

Handy extras

Undo and redo, Light, Night, and Dark themes, colors for events, eras, and story elements, and quick timeline renaming.