TimeLineContinuum_personal (TLC_P) is a tool that has been developed to assist you, as a user, to write your personal stories and present them in a timeline. You can write a story about your life, your family, your business, a project you are working on, or even about your football club!

To sign up, click on any of the Get Started buttons on the Home page and About Us page.

Once you’ve clicked on any one of them, a signup window will appear. Provide the required details, comply with the password requirements, hit Continue, and that’s it! You now have an account with TLC_P. To login, just use the email you provided and the password you created.

In TLC_P, a story is called a Continuum. A Continuum is a specific timeline showing chronological events of a story or purpose. You can create multiple continuums with TLC_P.

Each event in your continuum must have a title. A Catchclause is the short eye-catching title or name you give to an event in your continuum.

Event view and timeline view are the two viewing modes of your story or your continuum.

Event view is the vertical presentation of your continuum and works great when you are using TLC_P on your phone or tablet. In this view, you can arrange your events by date or by catchclause in ascending or descending order.

Timeline view is the horizontal and graphical presentation of your continuum where you can see how your events relate to other events in a horizontal continuum. You can increase or decrease the timescale here to view more, or less events.

To create a continuum, make sure that you are on the Select/Create Continuum tab. In this tab, you either “Select continuum” or “Create a new continuum”.

Creation of continuums are done on the right panel where it says “Create a continuum”.

To create a continuum, enter a continuum name (say, My Life) and description (what it’s about, if you need to), and hit Save Continuum.

The list of continuums you have created are listed on the left pane of the Select/Create Continuum tab.

When you are viewing a continuum, the title of the continuum is displayed near the top of the page. At the right side or under the title is a Continuum Details button to edit the title and description.

You can click on this button and a Continuum details window will appear. To edit, click on the Edit button. After making your changes, click the Update button.

Well, yes you can. But we strongly recommend that you do this with double and extreme caution. You might unintentionally delete a beautiful story and we don’t want that to happen. Assuming you’ve done your checks and you are quite sure you don’t need a continuum any more, click on the Continuum Details button.

On the Continuum Details window that appears, click the Delete button. TLC_P will ask if you are sure.

If you are, click Yes and your password shall be required to proceed with the deletion. After entering your password, either hit Delete to permanently delete the continuum or Abort if you’d had a change of mind.

To write an event, three things are a must-have, a catchclause, the date of the event, and the narrative detail of the event. Each of these need to be entered in their respective text boxes in the Event Entry tab then hit Save as new button to save the event.

A catchclause is the short eye-catching titles or names you give to events in your continuum. The date of the event must have a start date. The end date is optional. In the narrative detail, you can enter the detail of the event and you can include photos and images, YouTube videos, and web links, for a more detailed and attractive presentation of your event.

There are two ways to do this: by Drag and Drop, and by clicking the Insert Image icon in the tool bar.

While writing an entry, locate your image or photo in your computer and drag and drop it to the entry window. A status indicator will appear green if the image is uploaded successfully.

To insert an image using Insert Image icon, click the icon on the toolbar to access the Image Properties window. The location of the Insert Image icon is shown below.

In the Image Properties window, click on Upload tab then click the Choose File button to select your image. After selecting the image hit the Send to the Server button to upload your image.

To resize your image, hover your mouse over the image until the black square dot appears in the lower right corner. Point your mouse on this square dot until the cursor turns to a double arrow, click then drag to resize.

If your image is too large to see the lower right corner, double-click on the image then on the Image Properties window that will appear, click on the Image Info tab and set the desired width or height. By default, your image ratio is locked so if you set your width the height will set itself accordingly or vice versa.

The images in your events can be moved around in between paragraphs. To do this, hover on the image until a crosshair appears on the upper left corner of the image. Point your mouse on the crosshair until the mouse pointer turns into a crossed arrow, click, then drag to move it between paragraphs.

To set image alignment, double-click on your image then, click on either None, Left, Center or Right buttons, near the bottom of the Image Properties windows.

Yes, you can caption your images. To do this, double-click on your image then click on the Captioned image checkbox at the bottom.

After clicking OK, your image will have a caption box, with the word "Caption"’" as the default text.

Click on the “Caption” text to replace it with your own caption.

Yes, you can edit and make updates to an existing finished or unfinished event entry.

You can edit or update your event by clicking the Edit button either on the Event Tab view or on the Timeline view. This will bring you to the event entry tab where you can make edits or update your event as you would any event entry.

Don’t forget to click Update to save the changes you made.

Of course, you can! This is your story, anyway. Though we strongly recommend that you do this with caution. But assuming you are a cautious person and you’ve done your checks, just hit the Edit button either on the Event Tab view or on the Timeline view then click Delete button at the bottom. The site will ask for confirmation and it’s all up to you.

The first thing you need is the link to the YouTube video. In YouTube, click on the share button at the bottom of the video then click copy. This will copy the link to your clipboard.

In your event in TLC_P, click the insert video button on the toolbar.

The Embed YouTube Video window will appear where you need to paste the link you copied in the Paste YouTube Video URL text box. Make sure all checkboxes are unchecked except for the Show Player controls check box. Hit OK and your video is inserted.

There are two modes of viewing your continuums: vertical view and timeline view.

Vertical view

The Events tab serves as the vertical view of the timeline. By default, it is arranged according to Start Date where the first event appears on top.

Timeline view

To view your continuum through this mode, click on the Timeline View tab and you will be shown the main timeline.

You can navigate forwards and backwards through the timeline by:

      Click-and-drag of the mouse. Click and hold within the timeline then drag left or right to move.

      Mouse wheel. Hover your mouse pointer within the timeline then scroll your wheel forwards or backwards to move.

The yellow area represents the span of your continuum. In the screenshot below, it shows that the first event entry was on 2017 and the last entry is on 2019.

The default timeline view is shown in a monthly unit. At the bottom of the timeline are the buttons to navigate and control how the timeline is presented.

To change the time unit, click the down arrow on the Select Time Unit text box to see the options. You can view your timeline by Day, Week, Month (default), Year, or Decade.

Once you have made a selection, click the Change Time Unit button to effect the change.

Yes, you can show more, or less events in timeline view. The Decrease Scale and Increase Scale buttons are used to scale up or down the space between periods throughout the timeline. Periods on the timeline are separated by a vertical line.

If there are too many events on the period currently shown on the timeline, you can click the Increase Scale button to see events spaced better.

If your events are too widely scattered across your timeline, you can click Decrease Scale to show events closer to each other.

For example, the above continuum will look like as shown below if you click the Decrease Scale button twice.

Yes, you can. For now, you can only share your continuums to other users of TLC_P. To do that, select the continuum you want to share, then click on the Share tab, then click the Share button this continuum button.

You need to create a Password (other than your account password) that others will have to enter to access your continuum and the Share Until date which indicates the last day you want others to have access to your continuum, and then click Save.

Once saved, a success message will appear and you can now share the above details to other TLC_P users to view it on their own timeline. You also have an option to update the share details in case you want to change your password or the last date of your sharing.

To do this, click on the Share tab, then click on the Download Continuum.

You will need to enter the details of the shared continuum to be allowed access.

Click on the Get Timeline button and the shared continuum will now be available on the list of your continuums on the Continuum Selection tab ready for viewing.

Shared continuums are read only and you will not be able to make changes.

To access your account details, click on the account icon on the navbar.

To update your details, click the Edit button. To change your account password, click the Change Password button text.

A window will appear where you need to enter the current or Old Password before you can enter a New password. If all password requirements are complied with, click Update Password to make the change.

To save your changes, click the Update button.

Yes, you can. To access your account details, click on the account icon on the navbar.

To update your details, click the Edit button.

To save your changes, click the Update button.

We wouldn't want that. But for now, please contact support.