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Show HN: Timelinee – Simple timeline creation, my Labor Day weekend project

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It's not fancy & not beautiful, but it's the timeline creation tool that I wanted for a long time. So I built it during labor day weekend.

Here's an example timeline created by Timelinee: http://timelinee.com/t/UtWt3q

And FAQ If you are interested: http://timelinee.com/faq/

Comments, suggestions or critiques are highly appreciated :)

After reading the FAQ, I think you just need a simple blog system with every category representing a special timeline. And you only need to modify the theme.

Indeed. Most of what I've implemented so far can be captured in a blogging service, except for the timezone support (but you can still argument that a simple theme with javascript can do that).

But I'd like to do more with the structural data of timelines, e.g., visualization, today in history, ...

Suggestion #1: Space the entries at a distance relative to the time between them, or provide that as an option. I wouldn't call something a timeline if it didn't represent the time periods.

Suggestion #2: Add a "no timezone" option, and show the timezone for each event.

>> Suggestion #1

Yes, I do consider supporting time periods. Maybe it'll come with different representation of the same timeline, e.g., different visualizations.

>> Suggestion #2

Good idea! Will do this.

You may also be interested in Newslines. We use WordPress as the base to create rich timelines on any topic. Our team has added 12,000 posts in the past few months. http://newslines.org. You can see how we dealt with MH370 here: http://newslines.org/malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370/ or Taylor Swift: http://newslines.org/taylor-swift/

This is uncanny -- I created something named similar way back in 2012. Always figured it would be something that would be useful. (The prototype is till up at http://gulecha.org/newsline/)

Anyone who finds this interesting may want to check out a fun movie timeline creator that I helped work on recently. It has a pretty powerful data-driven approach that builds the timeline skeleton for you and then makes it easy to edit and add media from there. Could work on top of any type of data.

http://iknow.io/explore/movies-1/timeline/#/start

Another good one is http://www.circaa.com/.

Also, I had worked on something similar: http://pollengra.in/showcase

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