We’ve quietly been offering our “Plus” tools to anyone who inquires and to people who have provided serious feedback. One of the features that’s long been on our to-do list is a legend. Since the beginning, one has been able to assign small icons to events: Now you can label entire sets of icons with a legend or key.
Currently if you apply a legend to a timeline, you can also click on a key icon and filter the timeline, and view only events with that symbol.
This is the beginning of another dimension for TimeGlider: more “meta information” about timelines. This will lead to other nice ways to organize data within a timeline. Many people have requested being able to have horizontal bands or “lanes” on which specific categories could be found. This legend system is an inroad to that.
A few of you have already written in to suggest improvements for workflow and usability. We’ll keep working on it. Some other features to come: adding RSS feeds to published timelines, photo sets, and more.
Again, legends are available to people who sign up for our Plus tools. If you’re an existing member, you can upgrade here, or if you’re new, you can sign up with plus tools by going here. Please, if you use these “beta” tools, make sure to send your feedback, for pete’s sake.