Feature: A new Timeline

[Konrad_Mertner]

Hello Coda team,

I am missing a crucial feature in Coda and I feel like there’s a bunch of users feeling the same.
It’s about the ability to view entries in a timeline one after another, instead of under each other, to save space and scrolling.

@Fran_Vidicek did a great sketch:

I think this feature request might be very scattered in different places with different names because it’s difficult to find a term for such a feature. Some call it „multiple lines per row“ others „sequences / sequential timeline“ or „historical data“.
(It’s not like: “Subitems” or “Milestones” with a distinct name)

With this post, I’m trying to collect this feature request in one spot.
Here’s a few posts from others I could find in a quick search:

Timeline view of non-sequential instances of an event

This is a very very good approach, and reminds me of some rather cool things @Paul_Danyliuk has done in janking together an alternative calendar approach to codas (which is in HUGE need of an overhaul) Indeed, you’re approach might just solve a big issue for me - that I’ll share one day soon if it works…though with my glacial speeds for making coda docs it could be quite some time before I get to it… it involves resource (studio + staff) booking for projects…

Timeline view - Is it possible to have multiple rows in the same timeline row

This is what I mean: [vivaldi_QESh29lSnf] It’s basically the same thing, but has breaks between starting and stopping. So instead of having a different row for each time you start again, could it all be the same row somehow?

Timeline View (Historical)

I recently needed to create a timeline, and my first thought was to use Coda. Aside from being a big fan of the platform, I knew I could add all the relevant information easily in a table (e.g. Event Name, Date, Description, Category). Additionally, you can easily filter by category, assuming a Timeline View of the table. For an example use-case, we were considering building a timeline at work to see major milestones with hiring, product developments, etc. We wanted to be able to filter by c…

Timeline view (to do a better job than calendar...)

Hey all, We use coda as a complete project management solution for our small studios. 5 people + freelancers, but we have some work coming up which means we will have more people. There are also more and more “dependancies” coming into our jobs, which makes planning things using the calendar view difficult. To my mind calendar view is the single most frustrating part of coda. It doesn’t allow one to show details in the same way that a google cal (or other software) does. We have got around…

Timeline view: Multiple items per row

Bringing this old suggestion back from the dead. [image] I use timelines a lot (to manage 10s to 100s of tasks under multiple parallel projects). With many tasks, having 1 task per line becomes unusable to view and plan (as the view extends vertically down the page and it’s impossible to view that many items at once on the screen). I would love an alternative timeline view (or option) that displays only the item bars and labels, more than 1 per line, each of which can be hovered or clicked …

etc …

Also: Not a dedicated topic but mentions of the need of a sequential timeline in different threads:

Beta launch: Timeline improvements

Can we put more than one tasks into the same timeline row? Can we view the timeline vertically? Because I need to make a wedding schedule planning, with “who do what at when” information in a calendar/timeline view. The following screenshot shows what I want: [image]

Beta launch: Timeline improvements

Repeating tasks on the same row would be very useful. Also, very specific, but arbitrary timescales would mean we could use these to document things like sequence timing (e.g. be able to use milliseconds as a unit)

etc …

Is a sequential timeline something Coda is considering?

[Stefan_Stoyanov]

Almost every time I use timeline this is a required layout.

[Konrad_Mertner]

for me, it’s the same. I RARELY have a table with just 15 items or so. More than 15 and this timeline becomes less and less usable, having to scroll so much.

[Greg_Villeneuve]

Yes, this would make the Timeline view much more usable. For tracking anything of any complexity, this gets unusable very quickly. Airtable’s timeline view works as I’d expect with items collapsing upwards when they don’t overlap with the previous event.

[Pablo_DV]

Current workaround using @Leandro_Zubrezki 's Mermaid Pack

[Konrad_Mertner]

OMG Yes!

That will lower the pain massively.