A short compilation of suggestions for making your timelines better, with examples.
chronology
Some other apps and solutions for creating timelines.
How to use Eastgate Systems’ Storyspace or Tinderbox to create a timeline.
A serious tool for analysing and displaying timelines, it can deal with very complex event and entity structures.
This app is free: you only pay for its export options, which cover print, presentation, and web very well.
Time is the warp through which we weave narrative, and the timeline the only good way of visualising events within a narrative.
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