Help

Quick reference for keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures throughout TimelineHub.

How to find what you need in the TimelineHub help center.

How to sign up for TimelineHub via email, Google, or as a classroom student.

How to browse, search, filter, and sort the public timelines on TimelineHub's Explore page.

The low-risk way to learn TimelineHub — copy a timeline, experiment freely, delete if it doesn't work out.

What the New Timeline dialog asks for, and what each authoring path does after you pick one.

AI Wizard, Manual Entry, and Excel Import — three paths, all produce the same kind of timeline.

How to switch between view mode and edit mode, and what changes between them.

On a phone, timelines open in Book or Event Scroll — swipe to turn pages — and you can install TimelineHub to your home screen.

The toolbar's zoom buttons — Fit All, Default, home, and (in edit mode) saving the default resolution.

Search, expand/collapse, and the left-click-vs-right-click category collapse behavior in the nav panel.

How TimelineHub's AI Wizard guides you through generating, reviewing, and configuring a timeline from a topic prompt.

Spreadsheet format, import modes, and the "draft your spreadsheet with another AI" pattern.

How to add new events, open existing ones for editing, and what the Event Detail Panel offers.

Entering categories and events directly using TimelineHub's spreadsheet-style grids, no AI or Excel needed.

The AI Wizard uses Anthropic's Claude. No model setting to pick — pick a topic and the wizard runs.

Change a timeline by typing what you want — add, edit, and delete categories and events in plain language.

Build an event's gallery — photos, YouTube videos, and section dividers — choose where each one goes, set the canvas image, and remove anything.

Why uploaded images need review before they're publicly visible, what the four states mean, and what to do if an image gets rejected.

Searching eight rights-cleared image sources at once via the Find image button.

What the Meta disclosure shows on an image — capture date, GPS, camera, exposure — and the privacy considerations around GPS.

A practical guide to what you can and can't upload — own photos, public domain, licensed content, and what to do when you're not sure.

The full-width Organize Images grid — 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.

The three view modes — Categorized, Chronological, and Hybrid — what each shows and how to pick one.

When to use a linear ruler (typical historical timelines) versus a logarithmic ruler (deep-time scales).

The three strategies that decide how events split above and below the ruler in Chronological and Hybrid views.

The six visual styles for events on the canvas — three line variants and three rectangle variants — and when to pick each.

Creating drill-in navigation by linking events to a category, or to a separate timeline.

Compressing empty stretches of time on your ruler so events on either side can sit closer together.

The date axis at the bottom of the canvas supports several mouse gestures — zoom, time-break creation, date readout.

Going from draft to public — the visibility flags and what each one does.

How the Classroom Publish flag works, how teachers set it up, and how students access a classroom timeline.

What the Shareable flag actually does — how other users can copy your timeline, what they get, and what stays with you.

Bundle your own timelines into a curated, shareable collection with its own page — and how collections show on Explore and your profile.

How to submit bug reports, feature requests, and feedback — plus where your submissions go.

Diagnostic guide for common image-upload failure modes — what each symptom means and how to fix it.

Why iPhone photos sometimes don't upload cleanly, and how to convert them to a format that works everywhere.