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Create Timelines with AI
on Your Whiteboard

Generate visual timelines instantly with AI. From project milestones to historical events,
create complete timelines with dates, descriptions, and cover images for your brainstorming sessions.

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Create Timelines with AI on Your Whiteboard

Timelines That Tell the Full Story

Stop spending hours building timelines manually. Describe your topic or project, and AI generates complete timelines with events, dates, stages, and visuals—ready for team collaboration on your whiteboard.

AI Generate

Describe a Topic, Get a Complete Timeline

Tell AI about your project, historical event, or process, and it generates a detailed timeline with events, descriptions, and chronological flow. AI intelligently chooses between date-based timelines for real events and stage-based timelines for processes.

"Create a timeline of the Apollo space program milestones"

"Timeline for launching a SaaS product from idea to market"

"Map the stages of building a mobile app from concept to app store"

Describe a Topic, Get a Complete Timeline

Smart Modes

AI Picks the Right Timeline Format

AI analyzes your prompt and automatically selects the best format. Historical topics get date-based timelines with real chronological dates. Processes and workflows get stage-based timelines with meaningful phase labels—no manual configuration needed.

Date Mode Real dates for historical events, company milestones, project deadlines

Stage Mode Phase labels for processes, lifecycles, step-by-step workflows

Horizontal & Vertical Choose layout orientation that fits your whiteboard space

AI Cover Images Auto-generated visuals for each event to make timelines vivid

AI Modify

Refine Timelines Through Conversation

Talk to Mida, your AI design assistant, to adjust your timelines naturally. Add events, change dates, update descriptions, or restructure the entire flow—all through simple conversation while keeping your existing timeline intact.

You: "Add a beta testing phase between development and launch"

Mida: "Added a beta testing phase with user feedback collection and bug fixing milestones, positioned between development and launch."

You: "Extend the timeline to include post-launch marketing activities"

Mida: "Extended the timeline with post-launch events including social media campaign, press coverage, and user onboarding webinars."

AI Convert

Transform Timelines Into Actionable Formats

Convert your timelines into other whiteboard components. Turn milestones into task boards, create documents summarizing your plan, or build flowcharts mapping the dependencies between events.

Milestones → Kanban Board

Project Plan → Gantt Chart

Event Sequence → Flowchart

Timeline Summary → Document

Transform Timelines Into Actionable Formats

Multi Visual Planner

Timelines as Part of Your Bigger Picture

Paste a project brief, product requirement, or meeting transcript, and AI generates an entire whiteboard with timelines alongside mindmaps, kanban boards, flowcharts, and more. Your timeline becomes one piece of a comprehensive visual plan—all created in a single prompt.

"Plan the launch of our new mobile app including roadmap, tasks, and architecture"

"Create a project board from this PRD with timeline, task breakdown, and user flows"

Timelines as Part of Your Bigger Picture

Free AI Access

Create Timelines with Your Favorite AI

Use Claude or ChatGPT to generate timelines directly. Our MCP server and GPT Actions let you create timelines from your preferred AI assistant—completely free.

MCP for Claude

Generate timelines directly from Claude Desktop using our Model Context Protocol server.

GPT Actions

Create timelines from ChatGPT conversations using our custom GPT integration.

How AI Timelines Work

From a simple description to a visual timeline in three steps

Describe Your Topic

Type a project plan, historical subject, or process you want to visualize—a product roadmap, company history, or development lifecycle.

AI Builds the Timeline

AI generates events with titles, descriptions, dates or stage labels, and optional cover images—choosing the best format for your topic automatically.

Refine and Collaborate

Edit events, ask Mida to add more detail, convert to other formats, or share the whiteboard with your team for collaborative planning.

AI Timelines for Every Use Case

From product launches to history lessons, AI creates the timeline you need

Product Roadmaps

Generate product launch timelines with milestones from ideation through release, complete with phase labels and deliverables.

Company History

Create chronological company timelines with founding dates, key hires, funding rounds, and product launches with real dates.

Project Planning

Build project timelines showing development phases, sprint milestones, testing periods, and deployment schedules.

Historical Events

Visualize historical events like the space race, industrial revolution, or technology evolution with accurate chronological dates.

Process Workflows

Map out multi-stage processes like hiring pipelines, onboarding flows, or manufacturing stages with clear phase labels.

Educational Content

Create teaching timelines for biology lifecycles, scientific discoveries, literary periods, or any curriculum topic.

Try These AI Timeline Prompts

Copy and use these prompts to create timelines instantly

"Create a timeline of the major milestones in artificial intelligence from 1950 to today"

"Timeline for building and launching a startup from idea validation to Series A"

"Map the stages of a software development lifecycle from requirements to deployment"

"Create a product launch timeline for a new mobile app over the next 6 months"

"Timeline of the evolution of web technologies from HTML to modern frameworks"

"Map the key phases of house construction from permits to move-in"

Frequently Asked Questions

What does an AI-generated timeline include?

Each timeline includes multiple events with titles, descriptions, and either real dates or stage labels. You can also enable AI-generated cover images for each event to make your timeline more visual and engaging.

How does AI decide between dates and stages?

AI analyzes your prompt context. Topics with documented historical dates (like company histories or world events) get date-based timelines. Processes, lifecycles, and workflows get stage-based timelines with meaningful phase labels.

Can I modify the timeline after it's generated?

Yes! Use Mida, the AI assistant, to add, remove, or change events through conversation. You can also directly edit event titles, descriptions, and dates on the whiteboard.

What is the Multi Visual Planner?

The Multi Visual Planner lets you paste a project brief or transcript, and AI creates an entire whiteboard with a timeline alongside mindmaps, kanban boards, flowcharts, and other components—all from a single prompt.

Can I convert timelines into other formats?

Yes! You can convert timelines into kanban boards, Gantt charts, flowcharts, documents, and other whiteboard components using AI Convert—making your timeline data actionable.

Is the AI timeline generator free to use?

Yes! You get free AI credits with IdeaBoard. Plus, you can use our MCP server with Claude or GPT Actions with ChatGPT to generate timelines completely free.

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