Community Suggestion: Make it possible to load the timeline page using different criteria than starting year.
Make it possible to load the timeline page using different criteria than starting year.
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
When the timeline gets long, everytime you load the page it goes back to the first entry or closer to the starting year. If most of your events happen in the same year the page aways loads on the first event. Making the timelines harder to work using tablets because the user needs to keep one tab for each timeline isntead of being able to jump between them in the same tab. ( using the same tab breaks the flow because you need to scroll back everytime you change timelines or jump back from another page )
How does this feature request address the current situation?
By letting the timelines page load optionaly by some extra criteria, the timelines page would be much easier to use on a single tab, enhancing the flow.
Some sugestions of loading criteria:
1. latest event created
2. specific event
3. precise date and time ( load closer to DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM isntead of only YYYY )
Follow up
"You can already set a custom opening year in timeline settings. Did you want something more flexible?" Yes, If most of your events happen in the same year the page aways loads on the first event. being able to choose a precise date instead of only the year would help maintain the flow. The same is true for loading on the latest, if its common in your project to write outside of cronological order, you need to scroll to where you left everytime you open a new tab.
The Team's Response
Thanks for your suggestion! As you mention in the follow-up, there's already a way to set a year to load in timeline settings. Your other ideas are good and we'd be willing to work on them, but the suggestion would need more support from the community for that to happen.19/300 Votes · +3602 points
Votes Cast
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+300
by SrSpaceCadet
on 2026-06-05 01:20 -
+300
by JetpackMonkey
on 2026-06-01 20:25 -
+300
by Elb Tenebris
on 2026-05-29 14:24 -
+100
by illenva
on 2026-05-27 01:52 -
+100
by Owlinthsnow
on 2026-05-22 04:52 -
+300
by Adcheryl
on 2026-05-22 03:55 -
+1
by A Mischievous Goblin
on 2026-05-19 22:32This is a really good idea, because my Year 0 -- let alone all the years before -- is NOT when my story events take place, it's just important world events. I haven't messed with timelines yet but I'm backing this requested feature; maybe you can set / reset a "sticky" year even?
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+100
by Mahdi Avendesora
on 2026-05-15 18:37 -
+100
by Drawkill Dragon
on 2026-05-15 05:23 -
+1
by Ononomad
on 2026-05-10 23:22You can already set a custom opening year in timeline settings. Did you want something more flexible?
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+100
by DramaticDragons
on 2026-05-10 03:02 -
+100
by FictionFan1995
on 2026-05-08 19:17 -
+100
by Michael Chandra
on 2026-05-08 00:15 -
+100
by kaixabu
on 2026-05-07 13:53 -
+100
by JoellaKay
on 2026-05-06 17:02 -
+300
by ss2020
on 2026-05-06 06:46 -
+300
by WeStanNikolai
on 2026-05-05 14:25Yes please! I could see this working similarly to how family trees automatically load to the family leader
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+300
by GM Ryu
on 2026-05-05 07:23 -
+300
by ISpeakDragonese
on 2026-05-05 01:17 -
+300
by biuzenho
on 2026-05-04 20:02
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