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Timeline

A horizontal timeline showing all your events as points on a scrollable, zoomable axis. Great for getting a bird's-eye view of your schedule across days, weeks, or months.

Toolbar​

The toolbar above the timeline contains filtering controls on the left and navigation on the right.

The timeline toolbar includes the same filter bar available in all views — filter preset dropdown, expression filter, and search bar. Filtering is applied in real time as you type. See Rules & Filters for details on filtering syntax and presets.

  • Year / Month / Day inputs: Type a date and press Enter or click Go to jump directly to that date.
  • Today button: Instantly centers the timeline on the current date and updates the input fields.
  • Pan: Click and drag the timeline horizontally to move forward or backward in time.
  • Zoom: Scroll up/down to zoom in (minimum 1 day) or out (maximum 10 years).

The default view shows a one-week window centered on today.

Event Rendering​

Each event appears as a colored range on the timeline:

  • Color: Uses the event's resolved category color (from color rules or integration color).
  • Text color: Automatically picks the primary or alternative text color based on contrast with the event's background — same logic as the calendar view.
  • All-day events: Rendered as 4-hour blocks.
  • Stacking: Events that overlap in time stack vertically so nothing is hidden.
  • Tooltips: Hover over an event to see its full details — title, dates, times, and categories.
  • Visual indicators: Skipped events and all-day events have distinct styling so you can tell them apart at a glance.

Click any event to open its Event Preview Modal.

On-Demand Loading​

The timeline only loads events for the time range you're currently viewing (plus a small buffer ahead and behind). As you pan or zoom, new events are fetched automatically. Ranges that have already been loaded are cached, so scrolling back to a previously visited area is instant.

This means the timeline opens fast regardless of how many events are in your vault — it never loads everything at once.

Live Updates​

The timeline updates automatically when events change — new events appear, deleted events disappear, and edits are reflected instantly.

Command​

Use Show all events timeline (Prisma Calendar: Show all events timeline) to switch directly to the Timeline tab from anywhere.

The Timeline is also available as a toolbar button (enabled by default).