Free Timeline Template for iWork (my Mac) or Word
I love and recommend the goal tracker site for setting and measuring progress on your goals. However, I still have a desire to use a high view time line of where I want my life and plans to go in the next few years.
I have had a hard time finding anything decent without paying hundreds of dollars, so, I’ve created my own and decided to share it for anyone that wants to use a visual, big picture format for planning out events, projects or milestones in their own family or business.
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Screenshot:
Free Timeline Template:
3 year monthly timeline on (11″ x 8.5″ horizontal)
- Timeline Template (Secure Download on Box.Net) iWork Pages 2009 Version (11 x 8.5 Inch Horizontal)
- Timeline Template (Secure Download on Box.Net) Microsoft Word 2003 Version (11 x 8.5 Inch Horizontal)
HOW TO USE:
To adjust the timeline, simply copy and paste the markers and stretch or format them to fit your needs. Change the text, colors, etc to whatever you’d like. Add notes for additional date specific details.
If you are having trouble with overlaps, select the item that you most recently added, right click and select “Bring to Front”.
I plan to use this and move the big ‘ol “NOW” along as I go and set it as my desktop or something so that I have a visual reminder of where I’m at and where I’m going. Of course my life WILL inevitably vere in different directions, but this way I can acknowledge that change and document what happened and what I’m going to do with the next phase. As I mentioned, I think it really complements the planning work that you can do in the goal tracker online software to get yourself organized!
Here’s to Planning!
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Thank you so much! I've been searching everywhere for a timeline! You saved my project!
My pleasure – glad it was useful for you!
I’ve been searching for this very template for a while! Thanks much!
YES AWESOME THANK YOU
This is fantastic! Thank you very much for sharing this.
Thanks for this. It helped a great deal!!!!