Where can I find timeline software?

March 16, 2006 1:17 PM

Can anyone recommend good timeline creating software (preferably free)?

I need to find some software that will allow me to quickly type in events that happened on particular dates to generate a timeline. (Scenario - I am interviewing a person who has already submitted a story and I need to put it all in time perspective and then compare the written testimony with later oral testimony. I need to do this several times a day with high accuracy - timeline software would help me keep everything straight.)

posted by Amizu to computers & internet (3 comments total)

How about just using excel with two columns, one in date format, one in string format. Then sort.

Do you actually need to see it on a line?
posted by miniape at 1:34 PM on March 16, 2006

TimeMap, not free though. (but they have a trial)
posted by JohnR at 1:38 PM on March 16, 2006

Perhaps a gantt chart would do in a pinch -- here's a free one. It's probably more than you need, because it's really a tool for project management, but it would allow you to have a fairly complex timeline -- even overlapping timelines if that were called for.
posted by contessa at 1:42 PM on March 16, 2006