Timetoast Blog

Ideas, updates, and timeline guides

Product notes and practical writing about making timelines clearer, easier to build, and easier to share.

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Creating a Roadmap Timeline

This guide shows how roadmap timelines turn goals, milestones, and phases into a visual plan that teams can understand quickly.

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Timetoast Unbound Beta is here!

The Timetoast beta adds custom fields, flexible views, and a grid editor for building richer, more structured timelines.

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Effortless collaboration

Premium account holders can use simpler collaboration controls, including the option to make timelines editable by other account members.

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New feature: Year-only dates

Year-only dates make timeline creation more flexible when the exact month or day is unknown, especially for historical events.

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Graduating our new timeline design

Timetoast's newer timeline design is the default across desktop and mobile, with a cleaner view that no longer relies on Flash.

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Updated feature: Timeline embeds

Timeline embeds bring the newer Timetoast timeline design to external sites, with better resizing, HTTPS support, and cleaner code.

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More on our new visual identity

Designer Silvia Giulianini explains the thinking behind Timetoast's visual identity and how it represents shared stories over time.

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A bold new visual identity

A bold new visual identity

Timetoast's visual identity uses cleaner shapes, bolder colors, and a more flexible foundation for the product.

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We've updated our timeline editor

We've updated our timeline editor

The HTML5 timeline editor replaces the old Flash editor and adds BCE date editing support for desktop timeline creation.

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New feature: BCE date support

BCE date support helps you create ancient history timelines with BCE events and timespans alongside modern dates.

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Speed, speed, speed

Database improvements help Timetoast timelines and embedded timeline pages load faster across the site.

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New feature: Signup codes

Signup codes make it easier for teachers and account owners to invite students or team members into a premium Timetoast account.

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A product update

This product update explains progress on HTML5 timelines, including mobile improvements, event editing, and a smoother timeline experience.

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The road to HTML5

Learn why Timetoast moves from Flash to HTML5 and how that shift supports modern interactive timelines.

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Improved desktop list view

The desktop timeline list view gives you a cleaner, interactive way to read events and expand details with a click.

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Site news: Fresh servers

Site news: Fresh servers

A behind-the-scenes server upgrade helps Timetoast pages process faster and makes timeline loading feel snappier across the site.

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New feature: Premium support

New feature: Premium support

Premium support gives paid Timetoast users a faster way to ask questions, get help, and share feedback through live chat.

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Site news: Mobile website

Site news: Mobile website

Timetoast's mobile website helps phone and tablet users view timelines comfortably, with mobile editing noted as the next step.

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