Getting started with Timeline
This is the shortest complete path through Timeline: eight screens, from an empty home to a downloaded chronology. Each step names the control you press and says what happens next.
You need at least one document in your File Library and enough credits for the pages you are about to process. Timeline accepts up to 50 files in a single run.
Open Timeline
Select Timeline in the left sidebar. The home opens on the hero What would you like to timeline today?
Three buttons sit beside the hero subtitle. Watch demo plays the product demo in a modal. Take tour walks you through the screen in place. View guide opens this documentation in a new tab.
Beneath the hero is a step trail: Pick documents, Choose how to start, Generate date types, Review and run. The trail marks where the run currently stands, and the jurisdiction the run will be stamped with sits at its right-hand end. The third step is named after the route you take: it reads Review suggested date types under Smart Suggestions and Pick a template under Templates.
At the foot of the home, a Recent activity strip lists your last few timelines, grouped under Today, Yesterday and Earlier. Selecting one reopens it; View all opens the full history. The strip hides itself when you have no runs yet.
Choose your documents
The dashed band below the trail reads Choose the documents to build a timeline from, with the note Date types are proposed from what you pick.
Choose files opens the shared Files panel on its Files tab. Upload opens the same panel on its Upload tab. Neither opens a picker of its own, so your selection stays in one place.
Once files are selected the band turns solid and summarises them: the file count, the total page count when every file has one, and a chip per file with a remove control. Add more returns to the Files panel and Clear all empties the selection. Past six files the rest collapse into a single +N more button. Within five files of the 50-file cap the band adds a running readout, and over the cap it tells you exactly how many to remove.
Timeline cannot run without documents, so the primary button on every start path stays disabled until you pick at least one, with the reason Add at least one document to start.
Describe the timeline you want
The panel below the band carries three modes.
- Ask Judicio - Describe the timeline you want to build.
- Smart Suggestions - shows how many documents are ready to work from, or Needs documents when none are selected.
- Templates - Browse timeline templates.
On Ask Judicio, an examples block sits above the composer. With files selected it is headed Suggested from your documents and offers up to three prompts drawn from them, with a Regenerate button to ask for a fresh set. With no files it offers jurisdiction starters instead. Selecting an example drops it into the composer.
Type your request into the composer, or dictate it with the microphone. Two chips sit on the composer rail: Deep Mode, and a Settings chip that opens a small band holding a read-only Jurisdiction stamp and an editable Response language. Language sets the language of chat, memos and briefs for the run; extraction stays source-faithful and quotes are never translated.
Press Generate date types to submit. Requests shorter than ten characters are refused with a message asking for more detail.
Review the generated date types
Judicio replies with a named set of date types under the heading Template recommended by AI. Your request stays visible above it, with a Change query button to go back and rewrite it.
The bar above the list shows the suggested template name and a count in the form 2 of 6 date types selected, next to two buttons: Regenerate asks for a different set, Save as template keeps this one for later.
Each row has a checkbox, an edit control and a delete control. Editing opens an inline form headed Edit date type with a name field and a description field, and Save and Cancel buttons. Add date types at the foot of the list opens the same form headed Add new date type.
The footer holds the Deep Mode toggle and Start timeline. Start stays disabled while nothing is ticked.
Smart Suggestions and Templates skip this screen. Opening a card reveals a panel with the same list of date types and its own Start timeline button. See Date types and templates.
Confirm the estimate
Start timeline opens a modal of the same name, subtitled Review the documents and date types before starting. Nothing is billed until you confirm.
It lists the selected documents with their page counts, your request when you came from Ask Judicio, the template name and date types, an Estimated time banner noting that the run continues in the background, and the credit cost against your remaining balance.
When Judicio's estimate recommends a different mode from the one you have set, a panel appears reading Recommended: Deep mode or Recommended: Concise mode, with the reason underneath and a link reading Switch to Deep mode or Switch to Concise mode. The Deep Mode toggle sits at the foot of the modal, so you can change your mind here.
Start timeline begins the run. Cancel closes without spending anything.
Judicio reads every page
Judicio confirms that the extraction has started and moves you to the Timeline history. The run appears on the In progress tab straight away, showing the name, the number of date types, the file count, the started date and a live progress cell. The row expands in place to show per-file progress and a Stop generation button; the same action is available from the row itself.
A banner under the list reads Timeline generation is running in the background. You'll be notified when it's ready. You can leave the page. The run does not stop.
Read the cited chronology
When the run finishes, the results screen opens under a header bar carrying the run name, its jurisdiction, a chip counting the dates found, and an information button whose tooltip gives the file count and completion date.
The control bar below holds a Search box, the Categories filter, a Deadlines only chip with a count, a Status filter, a Party filter, the four-way view switcher, a Date format control and the Assistant toggle.
The four views are Table, Timeline, By document and By date type. They show the same dates and share your filters. Table is retained as the grid view; there is no separate Matrix tab.
A line pinned below the results reads Judicio can make mistakes. Please double-check responses. Every date carries a citation chip, so verifying one is a single click. See Viewing your timeline.
Export the chronology
Export in the header opens the Export timeline modal. Pick a format, keep Include source citations on, edit the file name if you like, and press Download.
PDF and Word show a live preview and can carry a Source Pack appendix and verifiable citation links. Excel is options-only. Calendar (.ics) adds its own Deadlines only toggle so your calendar takes just the actionable dates. Save to Judicio in the footer writes the export back into your File Library instead of downloading it. See Exporting timelines.
Next steps
- Date types and templates - reuse a set of date types across matters.
- Viewing your timeline - every control on the results screen.
- Editing dates - correct a date, its precision or its status.