About Timescrolly
What is it?
Timescrolly is an online tool to create and share scrollable, zoomable timelines of arbitrary scale.
Best tool I've ever seen on the internet.
- Martijn (founder of Timescrolly)
What is it for?
It is great for visualizing historical events, fictional storylines, personal life events, and anything else you can think of that involves a sequence of events and/or periods over time.
Who built it?
Martijn did, a software developer from the Netherlands.
I guess this could be useful for someone.
- Martijn (creative director of Timescrolly)
Why though?
My autobiographical memory is terrible. I used to keep track of life events and periods in a notepad. But I wanted to have some visual temporal context - to see how events and periods relate to each other over time. So I built Timescrolly to create a timeline for this purpose.
While building it I realized it could be useful to create other types of timelines as well: historical, fictional, scientific, you name it. So I continued to develop it for general-purpose use.
I'm 36. No... wait. 37? What's 2025 minus 1988? Ah, yeah, I'm 37.
- Martijn (mathematician at Timescrolly)