Time as a concept and an immovable and unstoppable element is something that passes without mercy. It's something we can't stop, but it can certainly be studied, and the processes and events that have a place in it can be kept static. This statism starts from memory and analysis. And through a tool we know as a timeline.
We have all heard it, and we have even elaborated it roughly at times, but we want to talk to you now about a digital platform called TimelineJS, that through his spreadsheet will make an art of chronologies. It is not a complex tool for you, nor is it believed to be justified or have problems with some of the network services.
TimelineJS makes it easy to use through the use of a template that works within Google Drive, for user convenience. From this area, the timeline is now consecrated, as a dynamic tool that is no longer subject to solemnized statism. It is now an art transfigured within a TimelineJS spreadsheet.
What do I need to use TimelineJS?
You may have a lot of ideas in mind, but if you don't organize them, your message may not get through in the right way to the rest of the people. That is why making a timeline is a great option to express your ideas..
One of the positives is that you don't need much to start using this tool.
The referred TimelineJS, it's a tool, that works in open, In other words without limitations and being able to append within it a exorbitant number of connections with communication platforms, educational, social, informative and other. For this, only stable connectivity is needed. For this reason, try to measure the speed of the internet connection and, if you are not satisfied, try to speed up the internet as much as possible.
Through its interface, TimelineJS provides a base template, to be uploaded within a connection to Google Drive, to work from the cloud. Making it a very comfortable tool which in turn provides a spreadsheet where a predetermined format is structured that provides greater comfort. Leaving the user with the task of editing only to their liking.
The conception of a timeline as an archaic and gray medium, left behind, now it is feasible to turn it into a powerful tool for the establishment and presentation of ideas or presentations. As well as the activities and presentations from a didactic and practical mechanism, which at the same time is extremely efficient.
Considerations
- Confirm that your internet connection is good and stable.
- Don't bore your visitor with long slides, write stories they can read in less than 20.
- Add your information without modifying the items or cells, since it could cause your timeline to become unconfigured and not work properly.
Where it works
The timeline you create with this tool will work correctly in any blog or web portal you want to add it, thanks to the fact that you can insert it with the link provided by TimelineJS through its generator.
TimelineJS and its internal formats and sections.
To make a timeline in a spreadsheet using TimelineJS, it is necessary to know its internal design, from where we will take it later. the references to achieve the schedule. It is structured by modifiable or editable sections, which will be mandatory or optional as appropriate. Which are collected within the interface as follows:
- Initial time section: In it, the respective information will be left at the time of the event or topic that is being discussed. Being the mandatory year, and leaving the other details as month, Day and hour, as something optional.
- Final stretch of time: from there, the chronological detail of the completion of the subject in question will be detailed. Leaving all optional details, dwarf, my, Day and hour.
- Date section: It is optional and its use replaces the previous ones, if the user wishes by modifying the final presentation.
- Titration section: its use will be at the discretion of the Internet user and the title data and the introductory text are edited there.
- Multimedia section: from here we load to the spreadsheet in TimelineJS what refers to images, videos, miniature (thumbnail image); as well as items of the authorship credits, and the attachment of an HTML code. Being all optional.
- Typological sectionO: its use will be optional, and will differentiate or structure the distribution of time, either by time or by group. According to the user's taste.
How to make a timeline using TimelineJS
From the official page you can see examples of how aesthetic and dynamic your results can be. Then, we will talk 2 different ways to do it.
With a Google spreadsheet
Toward meet the internal cast of TimelineJS, that was just detailed, it will be very easy to create a timeline in a spreadsheet. We just have to enter the TimelineJS platform, where later we will enter the link that redirects us to the template, from there we work on the link and within Google Drive.
Everything is already previously configured within the TimelineJS platform, so that only the edition or modification corresponds to the user's taste, following the indications that the same platform offers in an elementary way according to its sections. When you already know them, It only remains to enter and materialize the timeline.
Use table capture
Table Capture is a Google extension that works as a data extraction tool. With the, you can copy the content of a table in HTML within a web portal and later paste it into a Google or Excel spreadsheet.
How to post my timeline
In the 'File' drop-down menu, press ‘Publish on the web’.
A small sale will open where you must choose 'od1', 'To post’ and later 'Accept'.
You will see at the top of the window that it says ‘This document is posted on the Internet’. So you can close it now.
Copy the URL of your spreadsheet from the address bar.
Go back to TimelineJS to paste your url into the generator.
Clever, now you can share your timeline.
