About Timeline
==============

Timeline is a cross-platform application for displaying and navigating
events on a timeline.

Timeline is `free software <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html>`_,
distributed under the `GNU General Public License version 3
<http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>`_.

.. image:: /images/screenshots/main_window.png

See more :doc:`screenshots here<screenshots>`.

**Features:**

- Scroll and zoom with mouse wheel
- Different representation depending on zoom level
- Go to a specific date
- Search events
- Organize events in hierarchical categories
- Move and resize events with the mouse
- Duplicate events
- Export to image
- Available in multiple languages (`supported languages
  <http://translations.launchpad.net/thetimelineproj>`_)