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Adjustable increments (Day / Month / Year) for Timelines Timescale Mode

User Interface (UI) / User Experience (UX) · Timelines · Created by SilasCodes
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What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?

For some uses (such as RPG campaigns), the Timescale view is not practical, since all events that happen in the same year will be grouped together. I know that the List Mode exists, but I like how the Timescale mode presents the passage of time between events.   If viewers could adjust the increment of the Timescale Mode to Years, Months, Days, or Hours, the timeline would render events more tightly or more broadly apart.  

How does this feature request address the current situation?

By allowing users to "zoom in" / "zoom out" while viewing the timeline, they could choose whether they want to view long or short periods of time.  

What are other uses for this feature request?

This feature would be useful for any timeline that includes many events in the same year.

The Team's Response

Thanks for your suggestion! Such a feature would require incredibly complicated calculations to run behind the scenes to account for the arbitrary amount and durations of months, days, and other time units in any world that can be created. We're closing this for now because we're not in a position to implement that now, but we might look into this for a future long-term update.   That said, you can use Chronicles, which include granularity settings for viewing the timeline. Timelines in timescale mode also group events in the same year into a stacked event that you can click to get a detailed timeline of that year.
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61/300 Votes · +13505 points

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  • +300

    by HollieDaye
    on 2024-03-07 04:13

  • +1

    by Blossom Tree Art
    on 2024-03-07 01:57

  • +300

    by RCMPenguin
    on 2024-03-06 03:08

  • +300

    by A Cute Devil
    on 2024-03-06 00:26

  • +300

    by ecl1psed
    on 2024-03-05 14:09
    Im also experiencing this for my world history. the world progresses relatively quickly and years are twice as long as years on earth, so the timescale mode is more or less useless as it stands for me right now.

  • +300

    by BetweenTime
    on 2024-03-05 04:02

  • +300

    by TheExasperatedDM
    on 2024-03-05 00:22

  • +300

    by Lythander
    on 2024-03-04 23:54

  • +300

    by Bluboram
    on 2024-03-04 21:18

  • +100

    by mikawa
    on 2024-03-04 06:28

  • +100

    by TheNamesJonas
    on 2024-03-04 04:19

  • +300

    by Dragolithic
    on 2024-03-04 02:28
    Would add a lot of practicality to timelines. An ability to see the timeline from an overview down to a daily or even hourly format would be awesome.

  • +300

    by JetpackMonkey
    on 2024-03-03 16:09

  • +300

    by ChrisJWalker
    on 2024-03-03 13:09
    Yesss, exactly this. Came here looking if someone had already made this suggestion bc it would make my life soo much easier and the timeline much more coherent

  • +1

    by SebGreg732
    on 2024-03-03 00:36

  • +100

    by A Cute Dwarf
    on 2024-03-02 14:20

  • +300

    by imly2k
    on 2024-03-02 12:51

  • +100

    by Amancham
    on 2024-03-01 11:06
    I feel like this would be really useful for writing stories, too. Love the timescale mode, but having a smaller scale option would be amazing!

  • +300

    by ASASCED
    on 2024-03-01 06:23

  • +100

    by SunrabCela
    on 2024-02-29 23:28

  • +100

    by StrawFairyPie
    on 2024-02-29 22:41

  • +300

    by ChaosxVariable
    on 2024-02-29 22:27

  • +1

    by Masha Medov
    on 2024-02-26 02:15

  • +1

    by hoku
    on 2024-02-24 22:59

  • +100

    by Adcheryl
    on 2024-02-23 07:14

  • +300

    by M. Dixon Games
    on 2024-02-22 07:08

  • +100

    by MasterTamari
    on 2024-02-22 05:07

  • +300

    by Those2Nerds
    on 2024-02-21 15:22
    Like others have said, being able to set the timescale like you can with Chronicles would be the cherry on top of a fantastic upgrade. Larger timescale like decades and centuries would also be great.

  • +300

    by Steve4989
    on 2024-02-21 06:03

  • +300

    by fwalton
    on 2024-02-20 21:59

  • +300

    by SoulLink
    on 2024-02-20 17:52
    It would be neat, but in my opinion not as an option to zoom in / out for users, but just have a setting that lets you select days, months or years as the granularity and then always render it based on that.

  • +300

    by Evil Atlas
    on 2024-02-19 17:36
    The new timescale mode is beautiful and I dearly wish I could use it, but all of the major events in my timelines take place within one year. Whether the timescale is zoomable or the increment is selected during timescale creation, a closer-in version would be immensely valuable.

  • +300

    by Squiggletag
    on 2024-02-18 11:15

  • +300

    by Alyvins
    on 2024-02-18 02:34

  • +300

    by ninjaturtwig
    on 2024-02-18 02:25

  • +300

    by aspenrayne
    on 2024-02-17 23:16
    omg yes. My main complaint with the new timeline is that its set to how big it is. Some of my timelines span millenniums and some 50 years. I would love to be able to adjust it manually.

  • +300

    by Auron Bladesong
    on 2024-02-17 20:45

  • +300

    by Shirokami17
    on 2024-02-17 14:24

  • +300

    by TheLaundry
    on 2024-02-16 07:21

  • +300

    by Shp4rky
    on 2024-02-15 16:53

  • +300

    by PoppaeaSabina
    on 2024-02-15 02:47

  • +100

    by LoreParmenter
    on 2024-02-15 01:14

  • +300

    by WriterV
    on 2024-02-15 00:43
    With a *seamless* zoom. Sometimes days is to narrow and months to broad. Sometimes half-centuries are appropriate. Events can use importance to hide things that don't fit in the number of columns.

  • +100

    by TheJohnHobo
    on 2024-02-14 18:01

  • +100

    by tjtrewin
    on 2024-02-13 15:24

  • +100

    by WitchyWoman128
    on 2024-02-13 14:06

  • +300

    by Exahall
    on 2024-02-13 12:18

  • +300

    by A Uncontrollable Mimic
    on 2024-02-13 06:06

  • +300

    by A Uncontrollable Bananafolk
    on 2024-02-13 02:42

  • +300

    by bphilippe
    on 2024-02-13 01:55

  • +1

    by Observer of the Stars
    on 2024-02-13 00:34

  • +100

    by eldknighterrant
    on 2024-02-12 19:57

  • +300

    by Warnord
    on 2024-02-12 17:09

  • +100

    by necrowmancer
    on 2024-02-12 09:37

  • +100

    by tofistig
    on 2024-02-12 08:53

  • +300

    by PhntmDrgn
    on 2024-02-12 05:33

  • +100

    by Ratha
    on 2024-02-12 03:16

  • +100

    by Guardaboschi
    on 2024-02-11 23:25

  • +300

    by ss2020
    on 2024-02-11 17:56

  • +100

    by Gideon007
    on 2024-02-11 17:46

  • +300

    by JoellaKay
    on 2024-02-11 17:33
    I would prefer the units to be an option for the timeline that is set by the owner/editor. And I realize that the browser limitations for how big the timeline is would affect the number of events you could have. I love the list mode, but there are some timelines where I want to use the lanes feature of timescale, but need a smaller unit (like days or months).

  • +300

    by SilasCodes
    on 2024-02-11 16:39

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