The Timeline is the full feed of everything that has happened across your plans, teams and account, including what you did yourself. It has its own row in the Explorer sidebar's Overview group, under the Inbox; you can also open it from See Timeline on Home (or at /explorer/timeline). Where the Inbox lists what is still waiting on you, the Timeline is the history.
What lands here
Every event on the feed comes from something that actually happened in your account. Nothing is guessed, and nothing is written by hand.
- Your plans: created, duplicated, moved to a folder, taken offline or synced back to the cloud, shared into or removed from a team, and one "Plan Updated" card per person per day for the edits. On a plan you own, a visitor opening or copying it through a share link shows too.
- Collaboration: comments, threads resolved, actions assigned or completed, share links created, and a share link about to expire.
- Teams: invitations sent and answered, members joining, leaving or removed, role changes, and a team renamed or deleted. Teams are run on liveworkspace.app, and these cards come from there.
- Your account: API tokens made, revoked or about to expire.
Renaming a plan is not an event of its own: every card names a plan as it is called now, so a rename updates all the older cards about it. (Renaming a team does get a card.)
If a plan lives in a team's shared library, everyone in that team sees its events. A personal plan's events are yours alone.
With Plans chosen at the top of the page, the Timeline leaves out other apps' items; with All Apps, it shows what happened to every liveworkspace app's items too, and clicking one opens it in its own app.
What is new since you were last here
That is the question the Timeline exists to answer, so it keeps a watermark of when you last read it.
- Anything that arrived since then is marked
New. The mark is per reader: your teammate's has its own. - The sidebar's Timeline row carries a count of what you haven't seen, so you can tell from any other Explorer section that something happened. It counts other people's events only, because a number that goes up because you moved a plan is not news.
- The watermark moves forward when you read the feed, and only from the top of it, so paging back through last month never marks the month as read.
Reading a day
Events are grouped by the day they happened, newest day first, with a dot and a line running down the left. Today's group is marked with a Today pill, and each day's events are laid out as cards in a grid (one column on a phone, up to three on a wide screen), the same cards Recent uses in Card view, so you recognise a plan by its picture before you read a word.
Days and times are your local ones, so an evening's work in Sydney sits under that evening rather than under yesterday.
A card leads with a preview of the plan, then its name, then why it is on the timeline: "Plan Created", "Plan Updated", "Comment Added", with the time and, where it matters, who did it. Events with nothing to picture (a team, an API token) show their glyph in the preview space instead, so every card in a row is the same shape.
Click a card to go to whatever it is about: the plan, the team, your invites. Cards you cannot open are dimmed, so you can tell at a glance. A deleted team is the usual case: there is nothing left to open.
A plan card has the same ⋯ menu as it does in Recent. Open, Share, Rename, Duplicate, Change Folder, Favourite, History, Hide from Recent, Open Team (for a team plan), Take Offline, Remove from Timeline, Delete: if you spot yesterday's plan on the feed and want to file it, you do it from there rather than finding it again in a folder. Right-clicking the card opens the same menu. Whatever you do from a card shows on the feed straight away, with no need to refresh the page.
Other cards take you where that thing is managed. A team's card opens the team's library; an invitation to you opens your teams on liveworkspace.app, where you answer it; an API token's card opens your API tokens on liveworkspace.app, where tokens are made and revoked. Their menu holds Remove from Timeline.
Deleting a plan takes it off the Timeline. While it waits in the Trash its cards are hidden, and restoring it brings them back. Once it is deleted for good, every card about it goes and nothing is written in its place: there is no "Plan Deleted" card. A deleted team keeps one "Team Deleted" card, since other people may have relied on it.
Every card's menu has "Remove from Timeline", just above Delete or any other destructive verb. If today is getting cluttered, take off the cards you don't need to see again. A stack has the same menu, and removing it takes every card in the run off at once. It only tidies your feed: a teammate looking at the same event still has it, and a team's activity feed keeps everything. A removed card stays removed even if the same thing happens again later that day.
A plan you created and then worked on the same day shows one card, "Plan Created", rather than a Created and an Updated card with the same picture. Editing a new plan on the day you made it is not news.
Colour tells you what kind of thing happened
The colour of a row is about what happened, not which part of the product it happened in:
- Red: something was destroyed or someone lost access: a plan moved to the Trash, a team deleted, a member removed from a team, a token revoked.
- Amber: the shape of things changed: renames, moves, team membership, roles, sharing, and anything about to expire.
- Green: the ordinary business of building: created, edited, commented, completed.
Three colours rather than one per feature, because the question you are asking as you scan is "is any of this alarming?", and only that question has a useful colour answer.
Busy days collapse
A day where you duplicated six plans should not be six cards. When several events of the same kind land on one day, they fold into a single stacked card, such as Plans Created, reading "6 events · click to expand", with the count in its corner.
Click it to open the run in place. The stacked card stays at the front of the run, now reading "click to collapse"; click it again to fold the run back up. A stack wears a New pill if any event inside it is new.
New comments never collapse, so you can always read what was actually said.
What is coming up
Not everything on the feed is in the past. Anything with an expiry (an API token approaching its six-month limit, a share link about to lapse) appears above today, under an Upcoming pill. Upcoming cards never count as new: something scheduled is not news until it happens. Revoking the token, or revoking or extending the link, takes the warning away.
This is the reason to open the Timeline before something breaks rather than after: a script that stops working next Tuesday says so this week.
Calendar view
Switch Cards to Calendar in the header to see the same events as a month grid. Each day carries one dot per colour present, with a number when there was more than one, so a red dot tells you something was deleted that day without opening anything. Click a dot to read that day's events of that kind, as the same cards the list shows. On a phone, the Cards and Calendar switch sits at the top of the Filter popover, under View.
The arrows page one month at a time, empty or not, because the gaps are part of what you are looking at.
Filtering
The Filter button opens three things. Activity by switches the whole feed between Everyone and Other people, which is the one to reach for on a busy account where your own edits bury everyone else's. Events nobody performed, a token about to expire, survive that filter: no person did them, and they are exactly what "what did I miss" is asking about.
Below it, under Show, sits a chip per kind of event: Comments, Actions, Created, Edits, Renames, Trash, Sharing, Teams, Organisation, Favourites and Account. Only the kinds your feed holds get a chip. Turn a chip off and those events drop out of the feed; Reset turns everything back on, and a dot on the Filter button tells you a filter is on.
Last comes a small calendar for jumping to a particular day: pick a date and the Cards view scrolls to it, or the Calendar view moves to its month.
The feed shows 30 events at a time; Show More at the bottom loads the next page. Filters only look at what has loaded, so if nothing matches yet, load more before concluding there is nothing.
The Timeline is not live: nothing slides in while you are reading. It loads when you open it, and it checks again when you come back to the browser tab and shortly after you change something yourself (deleting a plan from a card, say, takes its cards away straight away).
Filters and the calendar view are per visit. Come back tomorrow and the Timeline opens on Cards again.
Guests and signing in
The Timeline works without an account, like the rest of liveplanner. A guest sees their own plan activity and comments on their plans; team, invite, and token events need an account, so they simply do not appear.
Your history follows you. Signing up moves your history, and what you open, to your new account alongside your plans, so a week of work as a guest is still there afterwards.
A plan's history
The same feed appears for one plan's history, from the History item in a plan's menu: everything that has happened to that plan, created, commented on, shared, filed.
The Timeline keeps a year (365 days) of history. To step back your own recent edits on a plan, use Undo in the editor.
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