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Timeline 1.0.0 is the first tagged release: a self-hosted team project planner built around a canvas-drawn Gantt timeline, with a board, and one-click status reports you can export as editable PowerPoint.

Try it: live demo (demo / demo12345), or run it yourself:

git clone https://github.com/vakahnke/Timeline.git && cd Timeline
SEED_DEMO=1 docker compose up --build      # then open http://localhost:5173

The first tagged release. Everything below is in it.

Planning

  • A canvas-drawn Gantt timeline: drag to pan, Ctrl/⌘-drag to move an event, drag an edge to
    resize, smooth zoom from months to minutes, a minimap, dependency arrows, and the critical path
    highlighted automatically. Undo and redo for every change.
  • Three views of one plan: Timeline, List, and a Board that groups tasks by status.
  • Events with notes, percent complete, key-milestone flag, predecessors and successors, sub-tasks
    with owners and due dates, and a comment thread. The API refuses dependency loops.
  • Project templates: 21 built-ins for business, engineering and hobby projects, plus your own
    saved templates, instantiated at a start date you choose.
  • Works on a phone: drag to pan, pinch to zoom, press and hold to move an event, grab dots to
    resize. The layout survives rotation.

Status report

  • A one-page status report filled in from the schedule: a status derived by rule with the rule
    printed, a drafted headline, the decision you need, five numbers against a reference, a
    simplified timeline, what finished, what is next, and the top risks. Click any text to reword it.
  • Print or save as a PDF (16:9 slide, or a Letter/A4 handout), or download a native, fully
    editable PowerPoint file.
  • Optional, per report: slip against a frozen baseline, "what moved since last report", and a
    milestone trend chart. Per-project limits for At risk and Off track.
  • On a phone: a Report tab, the slide shown whole, and a readable version below it.

Working with other tools

  • Export to iCalendar (.ics) for Outlook, Google Calendar and Apple Calendar.
  • Export to Microsoft Project XML, validated against Microsoft's published schema.
  • A documented REST API (OpenAPI, Swagger and ReDoc) behind everything the app does.

Teams and access

  • Private projects with four roles (viewer, commenter, editor, owner), teams that grant access to
    a whole group at once, and a workload view across members.
  • Authorization is decided on the server from the caller's current membership, never from anything
    the client sends, with an adversarial test suite to keep it that way.
  • Password reset by email, account approval for new sign-ups, and a people directory that only
    shows the people you already work with.

Running it

  • SEED_DEMO=1 docker compose up --build gives a working instance with sample projects in about
    two minutes. Production compose file with nginx and gunicorn; a single-container image for
    platforms like Railway.
  • Django 6.1, React 19, Vite 8, PostgreSQL 15+. Dependabot, secret scanning and CI are enabled.

New here? The issues marked good first issue are a good place to start.

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