Timeline Maker
A timeline places events on a single date axis with alternating labels. Paste a date column and a label column — the rows are sorted for you.
Chart type
Your data6 rows · 2 cols
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Features
What the timeline maker gives you
- Paste CSV, Excel cells, TSV, JSON or a Markdown table
- Live preview — every edit renders instantly, no Generate button
- Export 2x PNG, vector SVG, PDF or copy the image
- Transparent background and five business colour palettes
- No signup, no watermark, nothing uploaded to a server
Use cases
When to use a timeline
- Company or product milestone history
- Release history for a project
- Chronology for a report or presentation
FAQ
Timeline Maker questions
- Do my rows need to be in date order?
- No — events are sorted by date automatically, so paste them in any order.
- What happens if two events are close together?
- Labels alternate above and below the axis and stagger at two heights, which keeps most dense timelines readable. Very tight clusters may still need shorter labels.
- Timeline or Gantt chart?
- A timeline marks single points in time. A Gantt chart shows work that spans a start and end date. If your rows have durations, use the Gantt chart maker.
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Import formats
Paste from anything
- CSV to ChartPaste raw CSV text or drop a .csv file. Delimiters, quoted fields and header rows are detected automatically.
- Excel to ChartSelect cells in Excel, press Ctrl+C, then paste here. Copied spreadsheet cells arrive as tab-separated values, which FastChart reads natively.
- JSON to ChartPaste an array of objects, an array of numbers, or a flat key–value object. Keys become series and values become data points.
- Markdown Table to ChartGreat for tables produced by ChatGPT, GitHub READMEs or Notion. Pipes and the separator row are handled for you.
- TSV to ChartTab-separated values are what your clipboard holds after copying from a spreadsheet or a database client. Paste them straight in.
- Google Sheets to ChartGoogle Sheets charts are hard to style and hard to export cleanly. Copy the range instead and get an export-ready chart here.
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