Timeline (BETA)

Available for: All Miro plans
Available on: Desktop, mobile, interactive displays

Timeline is an interactive planning tool that strategically aligns stakeholders and teams. Use Timeline to roadmap your project, add visibility, and hit milestones more efficiently. Create, manage, and share your timeline directly from a Miro board.

A view of the timeline widget in action

⚠️ Timeline is in beta. Some functionality described or shown is subject to change.

Key features

• Customize an interactive timeline anywhere on your Miro board.
• Add and delete records inside the Timeline widget.
• Drag and drop Miro Cards into the Timeline widget.
• Create groups of records to organize information logically.
• Resize each time bar to change dates for individual records.
• Scale the Timeline view and time bars automatically when you adjust dates.
• Include multiple Timeline widgets with different data sources on the same Miro board.
• Share your timeline with team members and stakeholders.

Add Timeline to your board

1. Open a Miro board.
2. Select More apps (+) from the creation toolbar.
3. Search and select Timeline.
   Your cursor now shows as the Timeline icon.
4. Click anywhere on the Miro board to place your Timeline widget.

Timeline widget added to an existing Miro board

Timeline interactions

The Timeline widget provides several controls that enable you to manage your work.

Add a record

Click the plus sign (+) above the records column. A new record appears on the timeline.

To reposition a record, drag and drop the record higher or lower on the timeline. You can also drag and drop the corresponding time bar on the timeline itself.

Adding a new record to the timeline

Edit record’s text

Select the record or timebar, and then select the text. The blinking cursor indicates that the text is ready for editing.

Editing the name of a timeline record

Delete a record

1. Select a record or time bar for editing.
2. Press delete or backspace on your keyboard 
3. The record is now deleted

Change start and end dates

Select the calendar button inside the Timeline widget to choose your start and end dates.The planner scales automatically to match your selection.

To change the start and end dates for a specific record, drag either end of the time bar.

Record being visually adjusted on the timeline

Change record color

Click the color circle in the records column, then select a color.  Both the record and time bar color changes to match your selection.

Reposition records

In the records column, drag and drop a record to reposition it on the timeline. You can optionally drag and drop a time bar.

Create a records group

A group adds an additional level of hierarchy to your timeline, for example, if you want to order a roadmap by milestone.

To create a group, select the three dots (...) above the records column, then select Add new group.

Adding a new group to a Timeline widget using the More (+) icon

💡 You can drag and drop a record to another group.

Delete a records group

Select the three dots (...) above the records column, then select Delete group. All records in the group will be deleted as well. 

Add cards to your timeline

The Timeline widget visualizes data from Miro Cards. Simply drag and drop any card to a Timeline widget.

Adding a record by dropping a Miro card

Share your timeline

On your Miro board, follow these steps:

1. Select the Timeline widget that you want to share.
   The context menu appears above the widget. 
2. Select the more (...) menu.
   A drop-down menu opens.
3. Select Copy link.
4. Share the link with anyone who has permissions to view the board.