Project timeline template

Sometimes you need to see when things happen, not just what happens. This timeline puts the quarters across the top and gives each team a lane, so every piece of work sits under the quarter it starts in and stretches to the one it ends in. Change a date by changing a couple of characters, and everything else shuffles to fit.

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Outline

{*vertical} Project timeline
- [*horizontal *bold] Quarters
-- [q1] Q1
-- [q2] Q2
-- [q3] Q3
-- [q4] Q4
- [*horizontal] Research
-- Customer interviews ::q1
-- Market sizing ::q2
- [*horizontal] Design
-- Concepts ::q1..q2
-- Final designs ::q3
- [*horizontal] Engineering
-- Build the beta ::q2..q3
-- [launch *bold] Launch ::q4
- [*horizontal] Marketing
-- Campaign plan ::q3
-- [*dashed] Launch campaign ::launch

Diagram

What's in this template

A row of quarters that every lane lines up with
Research, Design, Engineering and Marketing lanes
Work that spans several quarters, and a bold launch milestone

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Put a step under a quarter by ending its line with ::q2. Steps and quarters line up in columns, so a long step pushes its quarter along with it.
Make a step span quarters with ::q2..q3: it starts under Q2 and stretches to the end of Q3.
Switch to months by renaming the quarters, e.g. [jan] January, and pointing steps at the new keys.

The full syntax is in the guide.

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1 Use this template It opens in the editor, no account needed. Sign up when you want to keep it, and your changes come with you.
2 Edit the text Change the wording, add lines, delete what you don't need. The diagram redraws as you type.
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