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Any good tools for creating timelines? [closed]

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I need to create a historical timeline starting from 1600's to the present day. I also need to have some way of showing events on the timeline so that they do not appear cluttered when many events are close together.

I have tried using Visio 2007 as well as Excel 2007 Radar Charts, but I could not get the results I wanted. the timeline templates in Visio are not great and using Radar charts in Excel leads to cluttered data.

Are there any other tools or techniques I could use to create these?

@Darren:
The first link looks great. Thanks! The second link did not work in Firefox and was rendered as ASCII. It opened up fine in IE.
And yes, this is for the end users. So I want it to look as presentable as possible, if you know what I mean.
Thanks again!

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Pascal Avatar asked Aug 15 '08 14:08

Pascal

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3 Answers

SIMILIE Timeline would probably suit your needs. http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/

Timeline .NET: http://www.codeplex.com/timelinenet

Oh, i guess i should ask... for personal use or for display to end users? that might change what i would suggest, but this could work for internal purposes too i suppose.

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Darren Kopp Avatar answered Oct 11 '22 08:10

Darren Kopp

Lifehacker has a good overview and tutorial of SIMILIE Timeline. They seem to like it quite a bit.

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jacobko Avatar answered Oct 11 '22 08:10

jacobko

If you need a timeline from RSS Feeeds give xTimeline a try. I just used it

http://lifehacker.com/software/rss/create-a-timeline-from-rss-feeds-with-xtimeline-283098.php

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AdamSane Avatar answered Oct 11 '22 08:10

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