| Who | Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn |
| What | Wikipedia |
| Where | Google Maps |
| When | unclaimed |
| Why | Belief — No single system. Includes various philosophies, religion, sciences, and more |
Organizing the world's information by when, starting with a tool for telling the stories that matter to you. Timelines work at any scale: from the dinosaurs to the pyramids, the history of rock and roll, a family's life in photos and video, or the moments of a single life.
What the tool does
Embed working
Put a timeline anywhere — a website, a news article, a kiosk, a slide. Copy a short snippet of code and it fits itself to the page, in two layouts: Full, with the title and controls around it, or Compact, where the timeline fills the box and the controls float over it only when needed. Size it to the timeline, lock it to 16:9 or 4:3, or let it fill a whole screen.
Compare working
Lay timelines alongside each other and the relationships surface on their own. The Beach Boys stopped touring two years before the Beatles did. With the Beatles was released the day Kennedy was shot. Neither fact is in either timeline; both are visible when you put them together.
Timeline + Map prototype
Atlas View plays a timeline like a video while the map acts it out. The timeline docks along the bottom as the scrubber, and the map follows the story: armies march as arrows sized to their strength, towns burn, battles flare, sieges close in. Pan and zoom like Google Maps, or press play and let it unfold. Built for laptop and phone.
Analyze planned
Key Moments and Smartlines — surfacing the events that carry the most weight, and drawing the connections between events that no one has drawn yet.
Source working
Single and multi-sourcing, with media that plays in place — video, music, photos and social posts from YouTube, Spotify, Bandcamp, Instagram, Wikimedia and more. Bring your information in from spreadsheets and have it organized chronologically.
Feeds planned
Pull events in automatically from social accounts, feeds and APIs, kept up to date on a schedule. This needs a server.
Curate working
A timeline may hold thousands of events and need a dozen to tell its story. Every event stays in the record; you choose which ones are visible. Nothing is deleted to be hidden, so any editorial judgment can be inspected and reversed.
Collaborate planned
Events and sourcing get easier with more than one pair of hands. Open a timeline to others, keep your own private, or publish one for anyone to build on.
How this treats truth
Independence is what counts, not repetition: ten books citing one letter is one source, not ten.