Timeline
The Timeline answers the planner’s question: what lands, and when. Every dated item in the loaded scan is plotted on a horizontal month axis, grouped into swimlanes by jurisdiction, so you can see the next four quarters as shapes rather than a list.
It is the tab for sequencing work — which obligations stack up in the same month, which jurisdiction’s cluster hits first, how much clear water you have after the current crunch.
The masthead states the scope (“What lands, and when — EU, UK”), and its meta line carries the two numbers that frame everything below: how many dated items the scan holds and the span they cover (for example SPAN AUG 2026 – MAR 2028).
Dated versus undated
Only items with a real expected date are plotted. Items whose date is unconfirmed (TBD) are excluded from the canvas and counted honestly in the toolbar — 4 undated. They still exist everywhere else in the app; the Timeline refuses to place them at a fictional point on an axis.
An empty-looking Timeline does not mean an empty scan. Check two things before concluding nothing is coming: the undated counter (early-stage proposals often have no date yet), and the filter chips — the Timeline plots the filtered items, and a narrowed Status facet can empty whole lanes. R resets the filters; the empty state also reminds you.
The controls
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
− Zoom Out / + Zoom In | Steps the horizontal scale between 0.3× and 3.0× |
Reset | Returns to 1.0× |
▶ Today | Scrolls the canvas so today is centred |
ZOOM 1.3× | The current zoom readout |
Showing n of m | Appears only when filters are narrowing the view |
The tab opens already scrolled to the neighbourhood of today, so the first thing you see is the near horizon, not last year’s left margin.
Reading the canvas
From top to bottom:
- Month axis — months across the top, with the year marked at each January.
- Key deadlines strip — the scan’s headline deadlines (the same ones the Overview’s agenda panel lists) plotted as small ticks on the same axis:
Key deadlines — 5 in span · 2 beyond →. Hover a tick for its title. - TODAY marker — a labelled vertical rule:
TODAY · 20-07-2026. - Jurisdiction bands — one band per jurisdiction, each labelled with its item count. Within a band, overlapping items stack into parallel lanes automatically.
Each item is a chip: a status glyph, the title, and up to two tags. Hover (or keyboard-focus) a chip for the tooltip — title, status, likelihood, impact, date, regulator and summary. Click it to open the full item in the shared item-detail panel.
The status legend
The legend under the canvas orders the five statuses by risk exposure:
| Glyph | Status | Risk reading |
|---|---|---|
| ● | Effective | Highest risk — a live obligation |
| ▶ | Implementation Phase | High risk |
| ■ | Final Rule | Medium risk — final text, clock running |
| ○ | Consultation | Lower risk — still shapeable |
| ◇ | Proposed | Lowest risk — direction only |
Two edge treatments carry extra encoding: Proposed chips have a dashed edge, Consultation chips a dotted edge — the two “not yet settled” statuses are visibly provisional even at a glance.
Worked example: sequencing Q4
Your scan covers the EU and UK and the compliance plan for Q4 needs dates.
- Open the Timeline; it lands centred on today,
18 DATED ITEMS · SPAN AUG 2026 – MAR 2028. - In the filter cluster, narrow Likelihood to Confirmed + Likely and Status to Effective, Implementation Phase and Final Rule. The toolbar now reads
Showing 9 of 18 · 3 undated— the plan should rest on these nine. - Zoom out one step. October–November shows an EU cluster of four chips stacked in two lanes; the UK band is clear until January.
- Hover the October chips: two share the same effective date. Click each, read the detail cards, and note the regulators. That double-landing is your Q4 pinch point — the rest of the quarter is sequencing, not scrambling.
A non-obvious tip
Use the key-deadlines strip’s “beyond →” count as a horizon alarm. 2 beyond → means two headline deadlines fall outside the plotted span — typically past the right edge of your scan’s horizon. If that number is non-zero when you plan, re-run the scan with a longer horizon before committing dates; the strip is telling you the picture is cropped.