Feature: Advanced Timeline

Kudos!  It is definitely a better timeline. I found the old very confusing. Thanks for the new!

I like the new timeline. It definitely is easier to find things and it looks great.

My main annoyance is that it goes all the way back to 15,000 BC just because one guy in one dictionary proposed that as the date for creation (apparently Adam and Eve didn't mosey along until 13,000 BC according to him). Leaving arguments about creation aside, I just find this functionally useless. It makes the timeline more difficult to use because there's so much empty (wasted) space just to accommodate two wildly speculative (exegetically irresponsible) dates.

I would prefer it began at 10,000 BC since you start to see more concrete dates for things at about 9000 BC, so 10,000 BC gives you some buffer space to play with. It would make the Timeline easier to navigate if it was focused more on recordable history and not wild speculation about primordial history. Everything on the timeline (and on the slider bar) is shifted too far to the right because it's going back too far in time. I'd like things to be more centered.

Or maybe you can add the ability to permanently fix our beginning date, so that we then set the timeline to ignore everything before 10,000 BC if we wish. It would be like "cropping" the timeline. This would make the slider at the bottom of the screen easier to use if it didn't go all the way back to 15,000 BC. Things would be more centered and evenly distributed instead of shifted to the right.

Although I think it would be easier and a better idea for FL just to remove Albright's proposed creation and Adam/Eve dates from the timeline and start it at 10,000 BC. It would greatly increase visual appeal and ease of use.

Timeline is actually usable now. I love the small marks at the bottom that show us where information is and that searching for a keyword actually brings us to the event rather than a bunch of empty space. Many of the other features look very interesting and I love how the events are linked to encyclopedias. This has been a huge improvement. over previous versions.

I know we can filter. I want to permanently remove anything before 10,000 BC from the timeline so that I don't have to navigate around that. It's literally 5000 years just to accommodate two speculative dates.

I understand the problem. And agree with the frustration.  But deleting data as a solution is what I'd never recommend:

- Report the data/estimates as authors see them

- Plan for potential other estimates being reported

I'd recommend a compress button (across the board). Remove centuries with no data (however filtered).

This is why I also suggested the "crop" option. Let me set my timeline to start at 10,000BC.

It sounds like you want to be able to set a default timeline view of your choosing. That's a feature a lot of people might appreciate.

A refreshed Timeline makes it simpler to focus on the events that matter most and see them in historical context.

Dear Ali Pope:

Advanced time line? I think the name is a bit presumptuous. Since Libronix (which actually gave you the option to create your own timeline), I haven't seen a well done or a finished timeline tool. A better name would be "tool under construction". And still is!

Apart from the filter possibilities (nothing new), what attracted me the most was the information sidebar. And it has also been the disappointment. It is supposed to display relevant information about a given event. But the event always targets the same two or three resources. For example, it doesn't show any result from AYB resources (neither dictionaries nor commentaries).

No matter what range of years you want the tool to show, allways have to go to "show all matching events"

A really cool tool would be to have the possibility of add custom events, tyded with your own readings, using the other calendars relevant to the biblical events, like the jewish or Babylonian calendars, don't know.

I wonder how this tool is tagged.

Some things are about perception, but I feel the tool still is crude.

Thanks for watching!

Some things are about perception, but I feel the tool still is crude.

That's a bit over the top? Or not.

My impression is that you'll never see 'graphics' fixed in Logos.  Maps will be limited.  Images low-res. And timelines a bit chaotic. But they're not meant for Bible class ... a simple display with your pointer, etc. Customizable to your points.  They're  meant for Faithlife-style study, sitting at your computer and squinting at the little boxes (for me anyway).

It's why each morning I open my Verbum, my Accordance, my own software, and then Kindle.  Accordance strictly for media. 

I used Canvas to do that... then embedded the in my notes  and bingo bango...

Hi Kiyah! Can you give us a little more? An example, a picture? Thanks!