Viewing Your Timeline
When an extraction finishes, Judicio lays out every date it found as a cited chronology. This page is a guided tour of that results screen — what each badge means, how to switch perspectives, and how to jump from any date straight to the sentence in the source document it came from.
Every row answers four questions: when (the date badge), what kind (the category badge, plus a red 🚩 Deadline flag if it is actionable), what happened (the one-line summary), and says who (the source file and its blue citation chip). The rest of this page walks through each in turn.
The four views
The view switcher sits at the top-right of the results, next to Export. All four views show the same extracted dates — only the grouping changes — and your filters, search, and chosen date format carry across every view. Switch freely; you never lose your place or your filters.
Timeline — the visual chronology, in date order
The chronology runs top to bottom, oldest first, with a light month header ("January 2026", "March 2026") separating each block. This is the view to skim the shape of a matter: where events cluster, where the quiet gaps are, and what comes next.
Reach for it when you want the story in order — a hearing-prep chronology, a "what happened when" for a contract dispute, or a first read of an unfamiliar file.
By document — grouped under each source file
The same dates, regrouped under the file each one came from. Every document becomes a collapsible section so you can fold away the files you are not looking at.
Reach for it when a counterparty questions the dates in one specific agreement, or you want to confirm you have pulled everything out of a single filing before moving on.
By category — grouped by date type
Here the dates are gathered by their category — all the Notice dates together, all the Amendments together, all the Deadlines together — so you can compare like with like across every file at once.
Reach for it when you are building a deadline tracker, or lining up the same kind of clause across several contracts to spot the outlier.
Table — every date in a sortable list
The Table view lays every extracted date out in a dense, sortable list — one row per event with the date, type, summary, and source side by side. It is the view for working through a long chronology methodically: sort by date, scan many events at once, and tick down the list as you verify each one.
Reach for it when you want the whole extraction in one grid — to sort, scan, or cross-check a large set of dates quickly.
Every row keeps its blue citation chip, so a date in the table is one click from the passage it came from — exactly like the other three views.
Reading a single entry
Whichever view you are in, an individual date is made of the same parts. Working left to right:
The date badge
A small block on the left shows the day number with the weekday beneath it — for example 15 over THU. This is the at-a-glance "when".
When a document only gives part of a date, the badge never invents the missing piece:
- A month-only date shows the month over the year — Sep over 2026 (rendered "Sep 2026" in text), not a guessed day.
- A year-only date shows just the year — 2026.
This is the date's precision. Judicio keeps a partial date sortable in the right place in the chronology, but it will not imply a specific day the source never stated. If a precision looks wrong, you can correct it — see Editing Dates.
The category badge
A coloured pill names the date type — Contractual, Notice, Amendment, Filing, Deadline, and so on. These are the same categories you chose (or accepted) when you set up the extraction. The category is what the By category view groups on, and what the category filter narrows by. See Date Types and Templates for the full set.
The red 🚩 Deadline flag
Next to the category, an actionable date carries a red 🚩 Deadline flag (a small alarm-clock pill). This marks a date that requires something to happen — a notice that must be served, a filing that must be made, a milestone that must be met — as opposed to a date that is merely informational (a contract's execution date, say).
The flag is what powers the Deadlines only filter, so you can pull up just the dates the team has to act on. If Judicio flagged something that is not really a deadline — or missed one that is — you can toggle it yourself in the edit panel.
The one-line summary
The plain-language line in the body of the row is the summary — Judicio's one-sentence account of what the date represents, written so it makes sense out of context. For example: "Last date to serve written notice of non-renewal — 90 days before the term end." You can copy a date's summary to the clipboard with the Copy action that appears when you hover the row.
The source file and blue citation chip
Beneath the summary sits the source file name — the document this date was extracted from — followed by a small, numbered blue citation chip (a circled 1, 2, …).
Click the chip and Judicio opens that source document in the Files panel, jumps to the right page, and highlights the exact passage the date was read from. This is the single most important habit on this screen: a date is only as trustworthy as its source, and every date here is one click from the words that produced it.
Extraction is accurate, but ambiguous wording or a poor scan can occasionally need a correction. Because every date is cited, a click confirms it against the original. If a chip ever fails to open, the source file may have been moved or deleted from your File Library.
Filtering, searching, and chat
Above the chronology is a toolbar that works the same in every view.
Filter by category
Open the category dropdown to tick the date types you want to see. Each option shows a count, and the chronology immediately narrows to the selected categories. Untick to widen again, or clear to see everything.
Show deadlines only
Toggle Deadlines only to hide every informational date and leave just the actionable ones — the dates carrying the red flag. The toggle shows a count of how many deadlines the extraction found, so you know the size of your action list before you open it.
Filter by date range
Narrow the chronology to a window of time — a single quarter, the run-up to a hearing, the life of one amendment — so a long timeline collapses to just the stretch you are working on.
Search
Type in the Search box to find dates whose summary or source matches your terms — "renewal", "indemnity", "closing". Search runs across the whole extraction (not just what is on screen), and combines with the category and deadline filters, so you can search within a filtered slice.
Chat with your timeline
Open the timeline chat to ask questions in plain language — for example "Which events are deadlines?" or "Are there any deadlines in the next 60 days?". Judicio answers from the dates in this extraction, and its replies carry their own citation chips: click one and the matching event scrolls into view and is highlighted, so every answer stays grounded in the chronology.
A date format control in the toolbar lets you switch how dates are displayed across the whole screen — day-first, month-first, ISO — to match your jurisdiction's convention. It changes the display only; the underlying dates and their precision are untouched.
Next steps
- Editing Dates — correct a date, fix its precision, toggle the deadline flag, or add a note.
- Date Types and Templates — the categories behind the badges, and how templates reuse them.
- Exporting Timelines — download the chronology, with citations, as PDF, Word, Excel, or CSV.