From Custom Solutions of Maryland:
TimeLine lets you plan food preparation and save the planning information. Each Occasion has a Master Timeline plus up to five timelines with start, stop, duration times and comments. The start and stop times generate colored lines up to the Master Timeline. A Cooking Calculator is included. Each Occasion can have a Note to use for recipes, etc. Timeline and Note information is saved automatically when the application is closed; you can also use File Save As to save the information with a different name. Files are saved in a 'TimeLine' folder in the User's Documents Folder. Screenshots can be made for viewing and printing. The Help and Note information can be printed. TimeLine is $10 shareware which can be used in Demo Mode for ten launches before it must be registered.
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Timeline SmartArt diagram slide (white on dark gray, widescreen) PowerPoint Timeline slide (blue horizontal chevrons, widescreen).
What do you need to know about free software?
In the Chart Data table that pops up, add your project data as follows:
i.List your project’s key events (milestones) in the first row, the one populated by default with the month name. Keep the milestone descriptions as short as possible as these will be later displayed on the graphic and you want them to be fully visible.
ii.Use the X column to enter the due dates for each milestone, as shown in the image below.
iii.In the Y column of each milestone, on the same row of the milestone's due date, add a digit such as 1, 2, 3, or 4. These numbers will act as plotting elements that set the milestone bubbles' vertical positioning on the chart. Bubbles that have smaller plotting numbers will be shown closer to the X axis, while those with bigger digits will be placed higher up on the chart.
iv.Lastly, in each milestone's Size column, enter a number like 10, 20, 30 to set the size of the corresponding bubble on the timeline. In my case, I used the value 20 for all my milestones.
After adding all the project data, the resulting chart looks will look this: