historical timeline modelling

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Mar 8, 2011 at 06:23 PM

Dr Andus wrote:
>What is interesting with most of the timelining software is that time is
>always conceived of as linear, represented by the horizontal axis. However, for my
>current purposes a vertical line makes more sense, where I would have the first event
>on top, and then scroll downwards. For some purposes reverse chronological order
>could also work, starting with latest first, then scroll down.

My own idea of the perfect depiction of time is a spiral, but I have yet to find a PIM that can display this easily.

Re the vertical approach, here’s a minimalistic depiction that I find very effective: http://37signals.com/about

You should be able to do something like this quite easily with Excel or Smart Draw (if you want to make it look better)