A timeline is just a chronological map, and what could possibly be cooler than A Timeline of Timelines. The timeline was created to accompany Daniel Rosenberg’s interesting article on the history of the timeline.
Tag: Timelines
Timeline
Timeline is a very interesting, open source (BSD license), web application for creating timelines. The timelines are in DHTML and can be scrolled by grabbing the timeline and moving it right or left.
For example, check out the dinosaurs timeline, which also shows off some fascinating highlighting and filtering options.
Timeliner 4.0
On a mailing list I subscribe to, several people wanted needed to find software that could help make nice looking event timelines like you might find in history or geology books without using something insane like MS Project. There are actually quite a few programs that do this, but the best one that the various list members could come up with was Time Liner 4.0. The program is geared toward K-12 teachers/students doing timelines for school projects, and has a very easy to use interface. It’s also pretty sophisticated for an $80 product with some interesting merge and compare timeline features. Most of the other packages that you can buy to do this sort of thing are $300 and up.
The only real drawback of the program is its almost non-existent export feature is basically non-existent. If you want to get a timeline in a different program you’re basically relegated to an extended screen shot-style capture.