Help centre
Short guides to the parts of Timescrolly people ask about most — making timelines, working with dates, sharing them, and looking after your account.
The basics
- Getting startedCreate your first timeline, add items to it, and find your way around the viewer.
- Dates, BCE and fuzzy datesHow precision works, which calendars you can write a date in, how to enter BCE dates, what to do when you only know roughly when something happened, and how to count from an epoch of your own.
- Custom calendarsGive a timeline the calendar of a world of your own: its months, days outside the months, leap years and eras, and how dates are written and read in it.
- Custom mapsUpload a map of your own world and place items and entities on it instead of on Earth: uploading, placing, the Map view's switcher, and replacing, deleting and transferring maps.
- Context timelinesRead one timeline against up to three others on the same time axis, and share that view.
- People, places and thingsKeep people, places, organizations and objects as records of their own, link them from items, and give each its own page.
- RelationsSay how two items or two entities connect: what caused what, who is whose child, what lies where.
- Importing a family treeBring in a GEDCOM file from your genealogy program: choose who to import, check the matches and see what will be added.
- CollectionsGather timelines under one name, choose who sees the collection, and give it a page of its own.
- The timeline assistantAsk questions about a timeline, and have it draft changes you review and apply.
Sharing and people
- Sharing and visibilityPrivate, team-visible and public timelines, share links, and what a public timeline shows.
- Embedding a timelinePutting a timeline on another web page, the Timescrolly mark, and what switches an embed off.
- Printing and imagesCapture an image of the view, export a timeline as a booklet in PDF or Word, or print it as a poster.
- Collaborators and rolesInvite people to work on a timeline, what each role may do, and how to remove someone.
- CommentsDiscuss a timeline or one of its items with the people who can open it, resolve what is settled, and choose who may take part.
- Suggested editsLet viewers propose changes to a timeline's items, then review, accept or reject what they suggest.
- Teams and the Team planWhat a team is, its roles, who pays for it, and what the people in one can see.
- Transferring a timelineHand a timeline over to someone else, and keep track of the offers you have sent or received.
Your account
- Deleted items and restoringHow the trash works, how long it keeps things, deleting for good, and the record of who changed what.
- Plans and billingFree, Pro and Team: what each one includes, how to change plan, and where to find your invoices.
- Backing up your dataWhat an export contains, who can request one, and how to download it.
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