What's New

The Data Puller (beta) has more to pull from.

• MusicBrainz: search for a band or artist to get their albums, singles and EPs by release date, plus line-up changes showing who joined and who left.
• Companies & assets: search by ticker symbol for a company's recorded figures, such as revenue, net profit, employees and market cap, one point per year or per recorded month. These are figures recorded on Wikidata, not live market prices.
• From a link: bring your own data. Paste a link, drop in a file, or paste CSV, TSV or JSON. AtlasTrack suggests which columns hold the dates, titles and numbers, and you can change any of them before importing. The link is saved on every event. It's your source, so its own terms apply.
• Franchise timelines: search a film, series or game franchise on Wikidata and place its events on the story's own time scale, with your own labels for before and after, not just by release date. Wikidata suggests dates where it has them, and you confirm or type in the rest. Nothing is added without a date you've approved.
• Credits travel with your events: each pulled event's description now ends with its source, license and credit, so they stay with it when you publish or share.
• Stricter image checks: images with trademark or personality-rights restrictions, such as company logos, are now left out even when their copyright license is free.

World Bank is no longer a built-in source. Its dataset terms limit some data to non-commercial use, so we took it out. If its terms fit your use, you can still bring it in yourself with From a link.

Starting a timeline used to mean typing every date by hand. The new Data Puller fetches real, openly licensed data and converts it for you.

• Wikidata: search for a person, war, space mission, company or almost anything else. Every dated fact is collected and grouped into key dates (born, died, founded), linked events (battles, wars, missions, parts), dated statements (positions held, marriages, awards) and items linked to it.
• You choose what goes in: tick single events or whole groups. Then put them in one atlas, one atlas per group, or an atlas you already have. Periods can come in as start dates or as full ranges.
• Pull again to refresh: pulling the same item again updates it in place and keeps your own titles, colors and settings.
• Openly licensed sources: the built-in sources are limited to public-domain, CC0 and CC BY data. Images are only included when their own license allows it, and every event keeps its source link and credit. You're still responsible for how you use what you publish.

No project open? The Data Puller creates one for you. Open it from the database button in the top bar or the New Atlas inspector. On phones, it's under ⋯ → Pull public data. More sources arrived on October 4: see Data Puller: music, company figures and your own data.

An event still belongs to one atlas, but you can now tag it into any other atlas it involves. You keep one copy of the event and it shows up everywhere it's relevant.

• Tag from the Event inspector: use + Tag atlas when creating or editing an event. Solid chips are the atlases that own the event, and dashed chips are tags.
• On the timeline: a tagged atlas shows a small dashed marker at the same moment. When you hover, select or play over the event, all of its markers light up together.
• In the sidebar: show tagged events mixed in with an atlas's own events, or in a separate "Tagged" section. Your choice is saved with the project.
• Search finds events by the atlases they're tagged in. The Detail view can show or hide tagged events, and slides can link to them.
• On phones, you can add and remove tags in the event edit sheet.

Tags only add context, so graphs and metrics still count just an atlas's own events. Deleting an atlas also no longer deletes events that another atlas still uses.

Every atlas row on the timeline now has an expand button (▼) next to its name. An expanded row shows its events as cards with titles and descriptions, laid out along the timeline.

• Starred events stand out: they get larger featured cards with a thumbnail and more of the description.
• You set the height: choose how many rows of cards sit above and below the line, either from the gear next to the expand button or in the Atlas inspector under Expanded view card rows. Set both to 0 for a compact row of dots.
• Busy moments stay readable: when there's no room left, events merge into a group card. Hover it to see the full list in date order.
• Tagged events show as small chips with a tag icon, so you can tell them apart from the atlas's own events.

Card row settings are saved per atlas with your project.

Select an event and click Event Detail in the slide editor toolbar to add a card for it to your slide. The card is linked to the event rather than copied from it, so when you edit the event, the slide updates too.

• Choose a layout: Large image, Top-left, Top-right, or Custom, where you place the image and text boxes yourself.
• Save a Custom layout as a template and reuse it on other slides.
• Choose which attributes to show. If the event has several images, choose which one to use.
• Want different wording on the slide? Type your own title or text on the card. Reset to live brings back the event's own.
• Link the card to a different event at any time with Change….

On a phone, AtlasTrack used to show the cramped desktop layout. A phone held upright now gets its own interface.

• Made for touch: a large centered play/pause button, smooth pinch zoom on the timeline, and event details in bottom sheets instead of side panels.
• Timeline, Graph or Split: switch views from the header, or stack any two views in Split.
• Search and jump: tap the search button to find an event and move the playhead straight to it.
• Edit on the go: create and edit events and atlases, including their tags.
• Graphs on your phone: build Line, Bar, Bar race and Bump graphs with an editor sized for phones. You can add lines, style the legend (color, line, dot, show/hide) and follow the playhead with a compact tracker.
• Your projects: tap the project name to save a copy on your phone, download it as a .atlasx file, or open projects from your phone, your Vault or the Server Library.
• The ⋯ menu has everything else: sign in, the Server Library, Help and bug reports.

Some graph types (Bipolar, Distribution and 3D Correlation) are greyed out in portrait for now, and you'll get a notice if a project you open uses them. For big building sessions, landscape or a computer still works best. We're continuing to improve portrait mode.

• Unpublish removes your item from the Server Library and from your publications list, and its embeds stop showing it. No one else can import it after that.
• Nothing breaks for others: people who already forked or imported your item keep their copies.
• Fair credit when you remix: if you publish a project that includes someone else's atlas or event, it is published as your fork. AtlasTrack keeps a private record of the original so reports can be handled fairly.
• The publishing screen now spells out what everyone can see: the content you publish and your screen name, nothing more.

AtlasTrack's Server Library is built by the people who use it, so it now has its own page. The new Community page covers:

• Like the old internet: no data for sale, a screen name instead of a profile, and your drafts stay yours.
• What you can publish: history, lore and fandoms, sports analysis, business and markets, research and teaching.
• How the Server Library works: the four sort modes, forking, ratings, tags, search, embeds and reporting.
• Your choice: read, publish or both. You never have to share anything.

The new AtlasTrack Blog walks through real timelines: how each one was built, what was hard, and what the data shows. Every post includes the live project. Click it to load, then pan, zoom and click through the real data on the page, no sign-in needed.

The first post covers the public beta launch, and more case studies are coming.

• Consulting Firm: Client Ledger & Audit Tracker: five clients' monthly finances, with one hidden red flag for you to find.
• University Research Lab: Longitudinal Study Timeline: control and treatment groups tracked quarter by quarter.
• Solar System Exploration: Voyager, Cassini-Huygens, New Horizons, the Mars rovers and Juno, on their real dates.
• Historic Gap Discovery: The Bronze Age Collapse: five civilizations and the gaps in the record around 1200–1150 BCE.
• Chronicles of Eldrath: Power & Legend: a fantasy world on its own custom time scale, where characters' power levels rise and fall.

Open them from Project menu → Server Library.