Creating a Timeline for a Biography: A Step-by-Step Guide

Biographies are more than just a collection of dates and events in a person’s life. They are stories that weave together life-defining moments. A well-crafted timeline can bring clarity to these events, reveal patterns, and illuminate how one life unfolds over time. Creating a biographical timeline is a powerful

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Timetoast Unbound Beta is here!

Timetoast Unbound Beta is here! This new version introduces custom timeline fields, flexible views, and a powerful grid-based editor, giving you more control over your timelines. Available now for premium subscribers—try it today!

Making dates easier: New date input format choices

When we first created Timetoast, our goal was to make it as intuitive and easy to use as we could, making it simple to create beautiful, interactive timelines on the web. While our timeline maker already makes it easy to add events and input dates, we believe there's

Introducing Our New Early Access Program

Early access is a way for you to experience the latest features before they're rolled out to all users. Enable the new setting from your account preferences and always stay up-to-date with the latest innovations..

Introducing our enhanced Help Center

We're excited to announce the launch of our revamped Help Center, a comprehensive upgrade from our previous FAQ page. The new Timetoast Help Center is designed to provide more in-depth support, with an array of new articles that guide you through our features step by step. Key improvements

Introducing a More Intuitive People Management Experience

We're thrilled to announce a major update to our people page, making it easier than ever to add and manage users on your account, with a focus on simplicity and efficiency.

Effortless collaboration

As part of our goal to continually improve Timetoast, and based on feedback we've received, we're simplifying the process of working together for our premium account holders. So what is changing? When you create a new timeline project, or edit an existing one, you will now

Sharing timelines just got a whole lot easier

Today we are making timeline sharing even better with the launch of a brand new feature: sharing with individual users. A couple of weeks ago we launched improved group sharing, making it much easier to share timelines with your groups. Instead of having to use a separate page, you are

New feature: Year-only dates

Today I am announcing the availability of the latest Timetoast feature: year-only dates. You may not always know the exact date that an event occurred — it may simply be unknown, possibly having occurred hundreds or thousands of years ago. We're now making both the month and day optional

New feature: Timeline color customization

Last week we added an exciting new beta feature for our Pro plan subscribers: the ability to change the colors of your embedded timelines. This is a feature that a lot of you have been asking about since we launched our new timeline design. Now you'll be able

Graduating our new timeline design

We recently reached an important milestone here at Timetoast timelines. We are now serving up our new and improved timeline design as default on all platforms. This means that we are now retiring the old timeline design from the website. Mobile users, as well as desktop users without the Flash

Updated feature: Timeline embeds

Yesterday we released an improved version of our timeline embed code. I would like to take you through some of the benefits that this upgraded version provides. New design You can now embed the new and improved timeline design. This new design vastly improves the user experience on touch-based devices

More on our new visual identity

When we first set out to create a new identity for Timetoast, we endeavoured to unify the core values of the service in a recognisable and timeless new brand identity; one that communicates the different facets of the service as well as its community. We asked Silvia Giulianini to help

A bold new visual identity

If you've visited Timetoast over the last couple of days, you have probably noticed that we've unveiled our new visual identity. We're extremely happy to finally share this fresh direction with you; it has been many months in the making. Not only is our

We've updated our timeline editor

Today we're releasing a slick new timeline editor. This release adds a completely new editing experience that I'm sure you'll love as soon as you start using it. Gone is the slightly clunky Flash-based application, replaced by a brand-new HTML5 app taking full advantage

New feature: BCE date support

It's been a long time in the making, but we've started to roll out one of your most requested features; BCE date support. Starting today you can add BCE events and timespans to your timelines on the mobile version of the site. I'm very

Speed, speed, speed

You may have noticed that Timetoast got a whole lot faster this past weekend. We've been hard at work to bring you an even snappier timeline experience, and it's resulted in massive performance gains. By completely reengineering the way that the Timetoast database works we'

New feature: Signup codes

Today we are releasing a new feature that makes it effortless to add users to your premium account. I'm happy to announce the immediate release of our new signup codes feature. Many of the teachers and educators using Timetoast have asked for an easier way to add students

A product update

We know many of you have been taking a summer break, but if you've been keeping tabs on the beta version of our timeline over the last couple of months, then you've probably noticed some big changes. An even better mobile experience You've already

The road to HTML5

When I wrote the first line of Timetoast code, back in 2007, I could never have foreseen just how popular it would become. At that time, Timetoast was just a side-project, a way for me to learn a then groundbreaking new web application framework called Ruby on Rails. Today, we

Improved desktop list view

If you’ve visited our mobile site recently, you may have noticed it features a lovely list view. As part of our ongoing efforts to unify how our timelines look across all devices, we’ve moved this view over to our desktop site as well. Just move the slider under

New feature: Print-friendly timelines

We know a lot of you want an easier way to print your timelines, so starting today we've made it even simpler with dedicated timeline printing support. No more switching to list view and using your browser's toolbar to print your timelines. Instead, we've

Site news: Fresh servers

Noticed the site being slightly snappier during the last couple of days? Well, we've just moved the service to brand new servers and the performace improvements have been remarkable; we've managed to more than halve the time it takes to process each page request! We'

New feature: Brand new HTML 5 Timeline Editor

It's taken a bit, but it's finally here; the all new Timetoast timeline editor just landed and it's a great new addition to the mobile version of the site. As you may already know, we're currently in the middle of our HTML

New feature: Premium support

I'm proud to announce premium support, a new feature for our premium subscribers. Now you get premium support right when you need it with our new Live Chat and messaging service; never use email support again! Since launching this new feature, I've spoken to many of