United StatesTimeStory helps you create graphical timelines—project plans, roadmaps, personal journals, histories, or any other illustration of events or tasks—quickly and easily, while avoiding the complexity of project management tools. Sketch out events by pointing, clicking, dragging and dropping. Focus in on days, zoom out to decades, or set your scale anywhere in between. Style your documents, choosing fonts, sizes, event icons and shapes, and colors, and attaching your own images. Present and organize your events directly, with quick filtering, zooming, highlighting, and navigation controls, or publish your work elsewhere with image and PDF export. Exchange event data using CSV import/export. Group your events into sections and subsections which can be rearranged or hidden. Automate your workflows and integrations with Shortcuts. TimeStory is fast and simple enough to let you quickly capture rough ideas, and robust and flexible enough to let you build, refine, and publish even large, complex timelines.
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This is the best tool I've found for showing product roadmaps in a timeline format that is both easy to manage and easy to change views for different audiences. There are some features i'd love to see added (autosave, ability to wrap text/adjust text box size for Point text, more colors, ability to gradient colors, etc.) but this is a fantastic application that I'll never be without, and worth every penny!
United StatesIncredible App
I've tried every project management and gantt app on the market. They are all overly complicated. I've been forced to manually design timelines for years. While not easy, it gives me full control of graphics and is easy to use. Then I found TimeStory. TimeStory is the perfect timeline app: incredibly simple, intuitive, and powerful. Absolutely brilliant. The developer is responsive and dedicated to making great software. I use a lot different kinds of software in my job, and this is absolutely one of the best apps I've ever used.
United StatesGreat, just what I was looking for
For those of us who have 30 projects and multiple events going on each day, it'll untwist your brain. Only thing I would add is in the "quick add event" would be the ability to set the color for THAT event. Then similar events (with the same color) in different sections would be easier to see at a glance. Sometimes my events are so short I can't tell what they are without clicking on them.
United StatesThis is the app!
I use this app for timeline planning for a book series. It's simple and allows for high level or granular events. Love it, highly recommended.
United StatesThis is the one folks!
Time lines are so useful for so many kinds of planning and brainstorming. Thus, it has surprised me how difficult it has been to find a simple and easy to use time line creator in the Apple ecosystem, that isn't hobbled by serious design flaws, and that is such a pleasure to use. I've tried quite a few, and this is the one. Here are some of the basic capabilities that are needed that I have found missing in other timeline apps. Quick entry of elements so that you can enter them as fast as you think, without getting distracted by complexities. The "Quick Entry" option just has two, or three, fields to fill out and an "Add" button. 1) The title, 2) the start date, 3) the end date (if there is one), and the add button. Boom! You've done it. Just brainstorm, and you can add as quickly as you think-- and you can adjust based on how things play out on the timeline. Change dates by dragging: One of the frequent purposes of a timeline when brainstorming, or planning, is to be able to adjust the start and end points based on what you see in the timeline. Thus, you don't want to re-open the entry, and see all the parameters, in order to change them. You just one to be able to move the endpoints, or the whole event, by dragging. That is what is so wonderfully possible with this App. Export Flexibility: You can export it as an image (PNG), as a PDF, or as a CSF. (or import as a CSF). Thus, whether you want to send your timeline as a PDF document to a collegue, or place your timeline within another Pages, Word, or other document as an image, it is easily done. Setting the date range for the export is also simplicity itself. It isn't a Gantt Chart: Out of frustation, I have often attempted to adapt Gantt Chart apps as timeline generators, because they do show events in a time sequence, and these events can generally be time adjusted by sliding the endpoints of the event, or the whole event. However, Gantt Charts are for project management, and have many options that complicate the process of making a timeline, and produce overly complicated presentations. This app is speciifcally intended for creating a visual timeline, and sections which can be anything, not just tasks as in a Gantt Chart, are easily created and labeled in a lefthand column. Events, whether "point" events or "span" events can be moved up or down into these different lanes with a simple drag or drop. I could go on and on, but I will conclude simply by adding that, as a consultant, I often point out that complex problems can be often be solved by formally analysing them along the dimension of time. I have even shown a novelist friend how useful a timeline can be for conceptualising a story. Once you get used to using timelines, you realize they are a powerful tool for doing many kinds of creating, planning, analyzing, or brainstorming, and belong right next to your mindmapper, or outliner, as a fundamental tool for thinking. The problem is finding one that doens't get in the way by being overly complicated, but which does everything one needs. This is it. Finally, I'll add that support is really great, fast, personal, enthusiastic. My only complaint is that there is no iOS version--- yet. This is a limitation for many people who move back and forth from tablet to computer depending upon where and how they are working. An iOS version would be great!
United StatesAn Almost Perfect Timeline Program
I have been searching for a program that does perfect timelines for a long time. I think I've found the one for me. I've only used the program for a few hours; but it seems to be full of features — in a clean and attractive interface. The one thing that would make this program perfect for my needs is a unit in HOURS. I write about true crime — where events take place within a single day. There are often a number of events within a few hours. To be able to map these out would be helpful in the writing — as well as illustrations to accompany the text. Thanks!
United StatesAn Almost Perfect Timeline Program
I have been searching for a program that does perfect timelines for a long time. I think I've found the one for me. I've only used the program for a few hours; but it seems to be full of features — in a clean and attractive interface. The one thing that would make this program perfect for my needs is a unit in HOURS. I write about true crime — where events take place within a single day. There are often a number of events within a few hourse. To be able to map these out would be helpful in the writing — as well as illustrations to accompany the text. Thanks!
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This release fixes a couple of uncommon crashes that could occur while editing.
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