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Quick Reference
Keyboard & Mouse Reference
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Quick reference for keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures throughout TimelineHub.
Getting Started
Welcome to TimelineHub Help
How to find what you need in the TimelineHub help center.
Creating your account
How to sign up for TimelineHub via email, Google, or as a classroom student.
Navigating the Explore page
How to browse, search, filter, and sort the public timelines on TimelineHub's Explore page.
Copying a sample timeline to experiment with
The low-risk way to learn TimelineHub β copy a timeline, experiment freely, delete if it doesn't work out.
Adding a new timeline
What the New Timeline dialog asks for, and what each authoring path does after you pick one.
Three ways to author a timeline
AI Wizard, Manual Entry, and Excel Import β three paths, all produce the same kind of timeline.
Edit mode vs. view mode
How to switch between view mode and edit mode, and what changes between them.
Viewing TimelineHub on a phone
On a phone, timelines open in Book or Event Scroll β swipe to turn pages β and you can install TimelineHub to your home screen.
Zoom and resolution controls
The toolbar's zoom buttons β Fit All, Default, home, and (in edit mode) saving the default resolution.
Controlling the navigation panel
Search, expand/collapse, and the left-click-vs-right-click category collapse behavior in the nav panel.
Building Timelines
Using the AI Wizard to generate a timeline
How TimelineHub's AI Wizard guides you through generating, reviewing, and configuring a timeline from a topic prompt.
Importing events from Excel
Spreadsheet format, import modes, and the "draft your spreadsheet with another AI" pattern.
Adding and editing events
How to add new events, open existing ones for editing, and what the Event Detail Panel offers.
Manual entry β categories and events
Entering categories and events directly using TimelineHub's spreadsheet-style grids, no AI or Excel needed.
How the AI Wizard uses Claude
The AI Wizard uses Anthropic's Claude. No model setting to pick β pick a topic and the wizard runs.
Editing with AI
Change a timeline by typing what you want β add, edit, and delete categories and events in plain language.
Working with Images
Adding images, videos, and dividers to an event
Build an event's gallery β photos, YouTube videos, and section dividers β choose where each one goes, set the canvas image, and remove anything.
Image verification and what's visible publicly
Why uploaded images need review before they're publicly visible, what the four states mean, and what to do if an image gets rejected.
Using the curated image picker
Searching eight rights-cleared image sources at once via the Find image button.
Reading image metadata (EXIF)
What the Meta disclosure shows on an image β capture date, GPS, camera, exposure β and the privacy considerations around GPS.
Image rights and what you can upload
A practical guide to what you can and can't upload β own photos, public domain, licensed content, and what to do when you're not sure.
Organizing an event's gallery
The full-width Organize Images grid β resize tiles, multi-select, drag to reorder, sort by date taken, map locations, identify with AI, edit captions and capture date/GPS, and move or split media into other events.
Layouts & Styling
Choosing a timeline style
The three view modes β Categorized, Chronological, and Hybrid β what each shows and how to pick one.
Linear vs. logarithmic ruler
When to use a linear ruler (typical historical timelines) versus a logarithmic ruler (deep-time scales).
Chronological and Hybrid event placement
The three strategies that decide how events split above and below the ruler in Chronological and Hybrid views.
Event styles
The six visual styles for events on the canvas β three line variants and three rectangle variants β and when to pick each.
Advanced Authoring
Linked sub-timelines
Creating drill-in navigation by linking events to a category, or to a separate timeline.
Time breaks
Compressing empty stretches of time on your ruler so events on either side can sit closer together.
Ruler interactions
The date axis at the bottom of the canvas supports several mouse gestures β zoom, time-break creation, date readout.
Sharing & Publishing
Publishing your timeline
Going from draft to public β the visibility flags and what each one does.
Classroom mode
How the Classroom Publish flag works, how teachers set it up, and how students access a classroom timeline.
Making your timeline copyable
What the Shareable flag actually does β how other users can copy your timeline, what they get, and what stays with you.
Collections β grouping your timelines
Bundle your own timelines into a curated, shareable collection with its own page β and how collections show on Explore and your profile.
Feedback & Issues
Reporting a bug or requesting a feature
How to submit bug reports, feature requests, and feedback β plus where your submissions go.
Troubleshooting
Image upload problems
Diagnostic guide for common image-upload failure modes β what each symptom means and how to fix it.
HEIC and HEIF photos (iPhone format)
Why iPhone photos sometimes don't upload cleanly, and how to convert them to a format that works everywhere.