Diagram template
Timeline: horizontal zigzag
A horizontal line ending in an arrow, with milestone cards alternating above and below it; each card has an icon badge on its top edge, a title, and a description, joined to its marker by a dashed connector, with an optional date by the marker.
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Included in
Free, Pro, Power, Max
When to use it
Use for three to eight milestones or phases in time order, such as a project rollout, a product launch, a company history, an incident timeline, or a quarterly roadmap, with or without dates. Not for comparisons, hierarchies, cycles that repeat, or items with no order in time.
Adjust after generating
Change the style, colors, and font, and these options, as often as you like without spending credits.
- Card shape
- Card fill
- Colors
- Card border
- Card shadow
- Typography
- Icon shape
- Icon size
- Icon fill
- Icon shell
- Spacing
- Alignment
- Material
- Connectors
- Line weight
- Milestones
- Milestone size
What you fill in
Describe your topic in plain words and the AI fills these in. You can edit every field afterwards.
- Milestones
- 3 to 8, each with title, optional description, icon, and optional date
Related templates
All timeline templates
Roadmap: Now / Next / Later columnsThree to fifteen pieces of work sorted by how soon they happen rather than by date, such as a product roadmap, a platform plan, or a team's priorities, with optional statuses and horizon notes.
Roadmap: swimlanes by team or themeTwo to four teams, products or workstreams with two to sixteen scheduled initiatives across two to six supplied periods.
Roadmap: winding roadThree to seven milestones on the way to a goal, such as a product's path to launch, a growth plan, a learning path, or a customer's journey to adoption, with or without dates.
Timeline: history gridThree to eight dated moments in a history where the years matter most, such as a company's founding story, the history of a technology, a brand's heritage, or an organization's anniversaries.
Timeline: horizontal icon nodesThree to ten events in time order that each need only a few words, such as a release train, a trip itinerary, a customer's first week, an incident log, or a year of launches, with or without dates.
Timeline: horizontal lineThree to eight milestones in time order that need a clean, typographic look, such as a product history, a launch plan, a release schedule, or key dates in a project, with or without dates.