Frequently Asked Questions

A case is a grouping of of elements added to Timewebs. It can be a project, an investigation, a trip, a social event, etc. 

You are free to add as many cases as you want to. 

Events are records of something that happened or will happen. 

An Event will always have a start and end date/time. The start and end date/time can be the same. 

Identities are people, either real or fictional.

Depending on your use case an Identity can be a person of interest, a family member, a travel companion, a historic figure, an unknown perpetrator, a fictional character, etc.

Entities are objects of various forms. Currently, you can choose from Organization, Location or Object.

Organizations can by e.g. companies, clubs, gangs, families, etc.

An Object can be material object, e.g. a book, a weapon, a server, a car, etc. Or it can be an immaterial object, e.g. a piece of legislation, an intellectual product, or an idea. 

A Location can be any location you wish to have its own Entity. Remember, you can add Location to any object in Timewebs so choose this Entity type only when you have to.

You can share a case to as many Timewebs users as you’d like

Click the gear icon left of the case name to show the Settings menu, then click Share Case to add users by email address. 

If the user is not already using Timewebs the user will get access once he/she registers the first time.

Beware: Once you share a case the other users sharing the case are able to add and delete anything in the case, including the case itself.

Relationship are any links between objects in Timewebs.

A Relationship can be a friendship, family relation or another association directly

between two Identities. A Relationship can also be a relationship between a person (Identity) and a family (Organization). A relationship can also be between an Event and an Identity to record that this person is directly involved in this Event.

There are no limits to how many Relationships that may be created, nor which objects they can be between.

Beware, having too many Relationships defined can make the case more challenging to navigate, cause maps and Relationship diagrams to become overly cluttered.

For this reason, it is best practice to define principles of when direct Relationships are defined in your case, and when they defined indirectly via another object.

Files are any file you choose to upload to your case. It can be text files, e.g. documents. Or it can be pictures. It can also be containers, e.g. zip-files.

Files are uploaded and linked to objects, e.g. an Event, an Identity or an Entity. A file may also be unlinked and linked to another object at a later time. A file can be linked to an unlimited number of objects.  

Timewebs will attempt to index text in any file, even in pictures using OCR, so that it can be easily retrieved using search and linked to objects.

Currently, files inside zip-files will be indexed as one file. 

Timewebs support Emojis.
Just Right-click in your browser and choose your preferred emoji.

In the Classical Timeline view, it’s possible to colorcode the individual events.