On: Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

[williamdclt]

Something very related I've been trying to find is a tool to create my own timelines. When I read about history, I always struggle to remember the order of events, or put them in historical context (eg who was the english monarch who sent troops to Ireland?). I'm often off by hundreds of years on when an event happened because I don't have a good mental model.

I'd love a tool that lets me create my own timeline. Ideally, what I'd want is:

- An arrow of time, graduated by year - Ability to create events (eg invention of TV) and periods (eg rule of Elisabeth I) - Ability to put events and periods in themed swimlanes (eg ireland-related stuff, foreign affairs, religion...) - A lot of freedom: add arbitrary boxes, notes, nested/collapsable stuff...

Basically diagrams.net with a built-in timeline and first-class concepts of event, period and swimlanes would be great.

Does anything like that exist?

[maheshnmurthi → williamdclt]

Have you tried https://markwhen.com/

I have not personally used it yet, but I would consider it if I wanted to work with timelines

[noname120 → williamdclt]

A good option is to use an LLM to produce Mermaid diagrams. For example Excalidraw has a pretty great integration for that.