Build your own dynamic timelines
Credit: https://thetimelineproj.sourceforge.net
What better way to visualise history than with a timeline? Whether you’re looking to chart the progress of a project, or delve into your family history, a timeline can provide you with a clear visual guide, revealing everything from the length of time it took to complete certain tasks to which ancestors’ lives overlapped with each other, and by how much.
You can, of course, create timelines using design software, but why do that when there’s a dedicated tool – conveniently called Timeline – to make the job as easy as possible? Timeline provides you with all the tools you need to make visually attractive, informative timelines with the added bonus of being able to add extra details in the form of additional descriptive text, web links and even a small image to aid the viewer on their journey.
Timeline is available through snap, which means if you’re running Ubuntu 18.04 or later, you can access it through Ubuntu Software – search for ‘timeline’ and it should be the fourth entry on the list of results (and crucially the only one called ‘timeline’). The latest version – 2.5.0 at time of writing, but likely to be 2.6.0 by the time you read this – should be offered.
Once installed, open from the Launcher. It should open to a blank offering you a shortcut to the ‘Getting started tutorial’, which is basically an example timeline that serves as an introductory tutorial. If it doesn’t appear, or you want to refer back to it later, choose
