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Timeline

A timeline plots items along a line, by when they were opened, closed, merged or updated.

A timeline of issues and pull requests opened over the last month, with markers stacked by day and a Today line, beside a release draft and a dependency map.A timeline of issues and pull requests opened over the last month, with markers stacked by day and a Today line, beside a release draft and a dependency map.

Settings

Section titled “Settings”
In the picker
Timeline: What was opened, closed or merged between two dates, along a line.
New size
720 × 320
Refreshes
At least every 5 minutes while someone's looking
SettingStored asAcceptsDefault
Title (named after what it shows if empty)titleText, at most 120empty
Forge (only shown when the board has more than one)hostText, at least 1 character and at most 253github.com
What to followqText, at most 400empty
Plot when they were: Opened, Closed, Merged or UpdatedeventOne of created, closed, merged, updatedcreated
Over: Week, 2 weeks, Month, 3 months or DatesrangeOne of 1w, 2w, 1m, 3m, fixed2w
From (for Dates)fromA date, YYYY-MM-DD, or emptyempty
To (for Dates)toA date, YYYY-MM-DD, or emptyempty
No control: stays at its defaultlimitA whole number from 10 to 100100

What to follow narrows the search, usually to a repository (repo:owner/name). Tack adds the dates itself: created:2026-09-27..2026-10-10 for opened items, and so on, plus is:pr when you plot merges. Relative ranges are whole days ending today, and move on each day.

Using it

Section titled “Using it”

Markers stack by day, with density bars along the axis and a line for today. Circles are issues and diamonds are pull requests, coloured by state; the key along the top lists the ones on the timeline (open issue, closed issue, open, draft, merged or closed pull request). Where too many land close together they cluster (“12 items: zoom in”); click a cluster to zoom in, and Show the whole range to zoom out.

Point at a marker to see the item. Click it to add its card in free space beside the timeline, or, if it’s already on the board, to find that card. ⌘-click (Ctrl-click) opens it on GitHub. Drag it out to add a card somewhere else.