Timeline maker

Effectively planning project timelines before beginning work is key to ensuring alignment in development and design projects. A project timeline displays task dependencies, helps team members plan their work, and ensures leaders remain updated on the expected completion dates of important deliverables.

Cacoo's online timeline maker empowers teams to collaborate on creating, maintaining, and reviewing project timelines to create beautiful visual illustrations of their project workflows.

Users can get started by selecting one of Cacoo's pre-built timeline templates and then can work together to customize their timeline to the unique requirements of their project. Multiple team members can work on this timeline simultaneously.

When the timeline is finalized, it can be exported to a wide range of popular apps, shared with project teams, or embedded in web properties such as company intranet sites, ensuring high levels of visibility.

As tasks are completed, team members can update the Cacoo timeline, ensuring everyone has an up-to-date understanding of their team's work status.

Effectively planning timelines before beginning work is key to ensuring alignment in development and design projects. A project timeline displays task dependencies, helps team members plan their work, and ensures management remains updated on the expected completion dates of important deliverables.

All of this, and more, can be easily managed from the Cacoo platform: an intuitive online diagramming tool that's easy for everyone to use.

Yes. Collaboration is core to everything we do at Nulab, and the Cacoo platform offers a wide range of features that enable seamless real-time collaboration between team members. Some of Cacoo's most popular collaborative timeline maker features include:

• Multi-user editing: Several team members can work on the same timeline together in real-time, regardless of location, making Cacoo the perfect solution for remote and hybrid teams.
• Live cursor view: Teammates can watch each other's cursors move around the screen, making it easy to understand what everyone is working on.
• Chat and video call: Each Cacco timeline has a dedicated chat thread. Cacoo also has a built-in video calling feature that allows teams to start a videoconference directly from their timeline.
• Revision history: Users can view the revision history for their timeline to understand when and what changes were made. This provides teams with a helpful way to know how a project progresses over time.
• Sharing tools: With a suite of integrations to communication tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams, task management platforms like Backlog, and cloud storage providers including Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, Cacoo makes it easy for teams to share a live version of their timeline with key stakeholders. New users can be invited to contribute to the diagram.
• Presentation mode: Cacoo's built-in presentation tools empower teams to share their timeline with a wider audience and secure the support they need to move forward.
• And more: Cacoo is the engine for creative collaboration. You'll constantly discover new ways to collaborate with your team using the platform. To appreciate the breadth and depth of collaboration tools available, we recommend you try it yourself for free.

Cacoo provides users with a raft of features that enable them to visualize their project timelines more effectively. The best place to start is with one of Cacoo's project timeline templates: options include a visual product roadmap template, a Gantt chart roadmap template, and our project timeline template. Alternatively, users can create their own timeline from scratch using Cacoo's shape library and drag-and-drop timeline builder.

Once you've picked the perfect structure for your project timeline, it's time to customize your timeline to the unique needs of your project. Add text, tweak fonts, color-code different project milestones, or add new sections to your timeline. You can even import your own branding to bring a layer of customization to your timeline.

Remember to invite other project stakeholders to weigh in on the creation of your project timeline. Cacoo has a wide range of collaboration features that help teams work closely together to build a timeline everyone supports.

Once your team has finalized its project timeline, it's time to share your visualization with others. You can export or print your timeline to share it offline or invite others to view it by sending them a link.

Cacoo is renowned for being easy to use; in fact, it's one of the things that our users love most about Cacoo. Get started by using one of Cacoo's pre-built templates. From there, you can customize your timeline using the platform's intuitive drag-and-drop interface, adding new shapes, changing text, and customizing the color scheme of your timeline.

If you need some support getting started, you might find the following resources helpful:

• Help Center: Browse a collection of support articles that provide step-by-step instructions for Cacoo's most essential features.
• Video Tutorials: If you're more of a visual learner, you'll love this collection of how-to videos.
• Learning Center: Explore a library of articles that dive into various topics in great detail, from project management to software development. If you're interested in project timelines, there's no better place to start than with A simple guide to creating a project management timeline.

Absolutely. Cacoo integrates seamlessly with Backlog, Nulab's all-in-one project management software platform.

Setting up this integration empowers your team to share, view, and discuss project timelines directly from their Backlog account. Backlog displays a summary of your project timeline. If users want to examine the timeline in more detail, they're just a click away from viewing and editing the diagram in Cacoo.

Cacoo provides users with endless customization options: the only real limit is your imagination! Users can customize the colors and fonts of their diagram to match their project or brand guidelines more closely, and it's also possible to import your own images, such as a company or project logo.

Integrations with a wide range of cloud storage providers and external design tools like Visio and Adobe Creative Cloud allow you to import assets from almost anywhere and incorporate them into your project timeline design.

Yes – and there are dozens to choose from. To find the perfect template for your project timeline, head to the Cacoo Template Library. You can browse various categories to find the perfect fit or search "project timeline" and browse from the available options.

Some of the best timeline maker templates in the Cacoo Template Library include:

• Project Timeline Template: This simple template makes it easy for project managers to track the milestones and progress of any task in a simple chronological order.
• Gantt Chart Timeline: Perfect for multi-stage projects, this template allows teams to organize their workflow by phase.
• Research Plan Template: Map out the structure of research projects with this step-by-step project timeline.

Yes. Cacoo provides users with a variety of different ways to do this, including:

• Hyperlink: Send stakeholders a hyperlink to your diagram. Users can choose whether to make this link public or restrict access to specific individuals.
• Embed: Cacoo timelines can be embedded into web properties like wikis and intranet sites. Your timeline will update in real-time wherever it's embedded as your team makes changes.
• Integrations: Add your Cacoo timeline to your team's cloud storage platform. Cacoo offers integrations to Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, and Box.
• Export: Download your Cacoo project timeline in your preferred format. Choose from PDF, PPT, PNG, SVG, and more.
• Print: You can print your project timeline directly from Cacoo – no downloads or extra formatting are required.

Cacoo comes with all of the security features you'd expect. Our servers are located in secure facilities protected by round-the-clock security and surveillance. The Cacoo web app uses HTTPS to encrypt all user data.

If you're looking for an additional layer of security, consider Nulab Pass, our enterprise-grade security solution. Adding Nulab Pass to your organization's existing Backlog and Cacoo subscriptions gives you access to user provisioning, audit logs, SSO sign-on (SAML) technologies, and more - giving you the peace of mind to move forward confidently.

We believe Cacoo is a feature-packed timeline maker tool that offers users fantastic value relative to other timeline maker solutions in the market. Luckily for us, our users tend to agree: over 2 million people use Cacoo, and our reviews and testimonials are overwhelmingly positive.

Reviewers on independent review sites such as Capterra rate Cacoo favorably, awarding the platform just shy of a 5.0-star rating. If you're looking for comprehensive reviews of Cacoo, we suggest you check out our Customer Stories to learn how designers and developers all around the world are using Cacoo to unleash their teams' creative talents.

If you're still unsure if it's the right fit for your team, why not take Cacoo for a test drive? We offer a free plan to all users that provides access to most of our features. Sign up for your free account to try it today.