Managing Timelines

Timelines are the primary containers for your events. They allow you to isolate different research projects—such as a specific military campaign, a family lineage, or a town's founding—while keeping the underlying data shared across your entire database. > [!TIP] > **Focus with Sub-Timelines**: You can create hierarchical timelines (e.g., "Civil War > Battle of Gettysburg"). Filter for the parent timeline to see everything, or select a sub-timeline to focus on a specific subset of events. ### Visibility & Ownership Each timeline is owned by the researcher who created it. By default, timelines are private, but they can be shared with other researchers in your group. > [!IMPORTANT] > **Data Integrity**: Deleting a timeline does NOT delete the events within it. Events can exist in multiple timelines simultaneously, or even in no timeline at all.