How-to guides¶

Recipes for a task. They assume you know the basics from the tutorials.

Getting started

• Install anytimeline
• Plot your own tables
• Use your time column: datetimes, time zones, durations, numbers, order only

Drawing events

• Arrange the lanes
• Colors, symbols and sizes
• Labels and tooltips
• Join events into routes
• Draw a Gantt chart
• Tell a story with a timeline: each event's text in a box on a stem
• Schedules and spans: bars from a start to an end, packed per lane
• Plot traces: spans under spans, folded, with the critical path
• States and values: what state a lane was in, a number over time
• Groups and linked plots: hosts, days or runs in one plot; plots that zoom together
• Share a plot: one HTML file, or a PNG
• Several layers in one plot

In the plot

• Zoom from Python
• Text and mark size, height and full screen
• Plot many events

Notebooks

• Use anytimeline in marimo
• Fix a plot that doesn't show