Passages

About Passages

Passages creates historical timelines with citations. You can enter a dated list, import a spreadsheet, arrange events in separate lanes, or open an example, then export a figure for your document or save an editable project for later.

Free to use without an account.

Create a timeline →View example timelines

Build a timeline

  1. Choose New and add events, or use Paste or import for a dated list or spreadsheet.
  2. Add sources to your events. Use categories for color and lanes for separate people or subjects.
  3. Choose a layout and adjust the cards. Save a presentation view to keep an arrangement for later.
  4. Choose Export for a figure or Save project for an editable backup.

Dates and evidence

Your original date wording stays intact. You can enter partial dates or uncertain intervals, mark durations explicitly, and keep entries with unknown dates in the project; the date guide explains how each notation appears in the figure.

Sources appear beneath the exported figure. Private notes stay out of SVG, PNG, and PDF artwork, but project files and CSV exports include them, so check those files before you share them with another person.

Storage and privacy

Your projects stay in your browser. Passages processes imported files on your device and does not upload events or notes, run analytics, or synchronize your library with another browser, device, or address; download project copies to keep backups.

Browser storage is not a backup. Clearing site data or switching browsers can remove access to saved timelines, so use Save project to keep a file and Open project to restore it or transfer it elsewhere.

Move work from the preview

The original preview has separate storage. Open the preview in the browser where you used it, choose My timelines, save each project, then return to this site and use Open project to import each downloaded file.

This site opens older project files. The original preview cannot open the newer project format, so keep your original downloads if you need to use them there again after you make changes on this site.

Related tools

Passages is made by DodgeWell Collective. Use Marches for maps, or RECTO/verso for archive photographs and transcriptions with annotations and cited figures; each tool has its own project files and storage.

Send questions or feedback to hello@dodgewellcollective.com.