Zotero TimelineEvent timelines that cite your library

A Zotero timeline plugin. Author research chronologies inside Zotero, where every event links to the sources that support or contradict it.

Getting started

Contributing

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Events, not items

An event is an authored object with its own title, date, description and tags. Your collections and exports stay bibliographic.

Typed source links

Each link to a library item carries a named type from a vocabulary you control, so "supports" and "contradicts" stay distinguishable.

Several timelines, one axis

Timelines are separate documents, drawn together on one chronological axis to compare what preceded what.

Rides Zotero sync

Data lives in note items, a native field, so it syncs with everything else. No WebDAV and no file-sync setup.

Who this is for

Researchers building a chronology where the sources matter as much as the dates: a literature review tracing how sources answered each other over time, a historical timeline for a thesis chapter, or a research timeline you want to defend with citations rather than just assert.

This is not a restoration of Zotero's removed Create Timeline, which plotted items by publication date. Zotero Timeline places events: authored objects with their own dates and citations.

Status

Pre-release, 0.9.0: everything planned for the first release is in. Install the .xpi from GitHub releases.