Timeline and dependencies
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The board answers “what is in flight”. The timeline answers “when does it land, and what breaks if it slips”.
Any task with a start date, a due date, or both becomes a bar. Tasks with no dates simply do not appear — the timeline is not a second backlog.
Drag a bar to move it. Drag either end to stretch it. Everything is live for the whole team as you do it.
Parent tasks fill in as their children finish, so an epic bar shows real progress rather than a flat block.
Reschedule without a mouse
Section titled “Reschedule without a mouse”Focus a bar and use the keyboard:
| Keys | What happens |
|---|---|
| ← → | Move the bar one day |
| Shift + ← → | Move the start edge |
| Alt + ← → | Move the end edge |
Nudging a date by one day with an arrow key is far more accurate than trying to land a drag on the right pixel.
Dependencies
Section titled “Dependencies”Draw an arrow from one bar to another and you have a dependency. It is the same blocks / blocked by relation you see on the task itself — drawn here, visible there. See Break work down.
Move a blocker and the cascade pushes the chain along with it. Nothing silently overlaps its blocker.
Auto-schedule and baselines
Section titled “Auto-schedule and baselines”Auto-schedule lays dependent work out end to end for you, so a chain of five tasks becomes a plan instead of five separate guesses.
A baseline records the plan as it was, so later you can see the shape of the slip and not just today’s dates.
Bars are grouped into lanes — by assignee, by module, by status, by whatever you are asking about.
Work shared by two people shows up once, in a lane of its own. A task is never drawn twice, so a timeline never exaggerates how much is happening.
Find the bar you lost
Section titled “Find the bar you lost”Scroll to March and your task in September is off-screen. Instead of hunting, an off-screen bar leaves a small chip at the edge of the canvas. Click it and the canvas jumps to the bar.
The portfolio timeline
Section titled “The portfolio timeline”The timeline is not only a project view.
On a folder. Open any project folder on Timeline and every project in it becomes a lane on one Gantt. Drag a bar to reschedule. Draw a dependency arrow between tasks in different projects, and let the cascade push the chain across the boundary.
On the whole workspace. The same view sits under All Tasks. “What is everyone shipping this month?” is one click, not a spreadsheet someone rebuilds every Monday.
When not to use it
Section titled “When not to use it”The timeline is for delivery dates. If your team pulls work continuously and nothing has a date, the timeline will be empty and that is the correct answer — use the board, and consider sprints if you want a time box without per-task dates.
- Break work down — the relations behind the arrows.
- Project folders — the portfolio timeline.
- Plan a sprint — time boxes instead of dates.