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If I asked you to tell me a bit about yourself, chances are you'd say something like "I was born here, then went to school there ..." and so on and so forth.

That's how most stories go. They tell you about events in the order that they happened.

It's just in our nature to tell stories this way.

We want Padlet to be the best way to tell your stories at work, at school, or at home. So we created a dedicated Timeline format for you to make beautiful timelines. It's really quite magical.

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Because every timeline is a padlet, it has all the great powers of other formats: numerous privacy options, realtime collaboration, and remake. And because it's a padlet, you can convert it to any other format or convert an existing Padlet to a timeline. E.g. Here's a map of countries I've visited.
https://padlet.com/gallery/countries_visited_map

Now here is the same map as a timeline. All I had to do was to remake it and put things in order.
https://padlet.com/gallery/countries_visited_timeline

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You can add any type of content to your timeline: images, video, audio, documents, files, webpages, or even other padlets.

Here's a timeline of the Grammy "Song of the Year" winners from 2010-2019. Every post is Spotify widget you can play.

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Timelines allow us to visualize information that makes changes across time much easier to see.

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If you didn't already know this, posts on a padlet can have colors. Colors work really well with timelines because they allow you to categorize and group events.

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To keep things simple, we haven't tried to make our timelines too clever. You have to manually order the posts. There is no mode where you put the time stamp on a post and it automatically puts itself in the right order.

There are a lot of benefits to this approach. First of all, automation like this wouldn't be super accurate and cause frustration.

Secondly, it allows you to use timelines in creative ways. Remember: timelines are just a way to visualize information. If the timeline-esque visualization can work for your information, use it.

Here's an example: planets of our solar system using the timeline format. (Back to back outer space examples!)

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We'd love to hear from you on how we can make timelines better, or just show us what you make.

We leave you with one last example using our favorite animals in the world: dinos.