Timeline

Timeline is the presentation of a chronological sequence of events along a drawn line that enables a viewer to understand temporal relationships quickly. Timeline is important in understanding history and make scheme. The correct visual representation of events, symptoms or treatments can mean the difference between life and death. Timeline makes it easy for professionals to analyze, plan or represent a series of events in a simple, clear and high quality way. Timeline is also sometimes extended to mean a chronology that is in tabular, year-by-year paragraphs, or other form.

Edraw Max is a vector-based diagramming software with rich examples and templates. It has the tools to make it easy to create a professional-look timelines, history, schedules, timetables and PERT diagram. Free Timeline is simple yet very powerful - it allows entry of both events and time periods, it scales automatically, it color-codes collapsible timeline groups, it allows links and images. It can export to PDF, PowerPoint, Word and Graphics.

Start to Draw a Timeline

Click here to download Timeline Software. Then you can use the build-in timeline template to create and present your timelines in minutes.

Timeline Template

In the start page, you can choose the timeline template in the Project category. Timeline template lets you create great looking charts quickly using its built-in symbol elements and auto-placement of events.

Add these symbols are vector and can be recolor and scale.

Timeline Examples

Edraw includes some examples to help you understand how to draw timeline quickly. Follow example shows a simple to draw a timeline.

How to draw Timeline

Firstly, drag a timeline bar from the template. There is three basic timeline bar symbols in it. You can choose any one to as the basic linear timeline axes. Then drag the mission above the axes.

You can move the yellow control point to change the position of milestones and interval markers. Double click the text and type the information you want.

You can switch to the Insert menu to add hyperlink and picture for the markers. It's easy to change the background. Only drag a background icon from the build-in background template.

More Timeline Examples