Tutorials & Videos

Videos

Note: TimeStory has been continuously updated and expanded over the years, so you will find that some of these videos, while still applicable, show an interface that doesn’t look quite the same as the current version.

A Quick Tour of TimeStory is a short (1:24) demo of the core idea of TimeStory: that you can quickly create and edit timelines by pointing and clicking.

Moving Around in Time shows different ways to navigate your timelines: scrolling (with gestures or with the Time Scroller), panning, Go To Date, and Navigate Events.

Using Custom Icons to Mark Events shows you how to add custom icons to your TimeStory icon library, and how to use them to mark up your timelines.

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Tutorial Documentation

Apple Computers, 1976–1990 walks through building a timeline of Apple’s various computers through 1990. It does this by grabbing some tables from Wikipedia, converting them to CSV files, importing those files, and then doing some cleanup. (You can also download the finished product there!)

Options while Dragging Events describes how you can control the precise details of dragging events around on the timeline, including how they “snap” to boundaries and how they automatically avoid overlaps, as well as how to control those features by pressing modifier keys during dragging.