The Timeline lays your goals, subgoals, and projects out as bars across time, each one running from its start date to its deadline. Where the Goals list tells you what you're working towards, the timeline tells you when, and shows you the two things a list can't: what overlaps, and what you've quietly stacked into the same six weeks.

Think of it as your year seen sideways. Zoom out to five years for the long arc, or in to a month to see what's actually in front of you.

The Timeline is its own section in the sidebar, under Plan.

Note: The Timeline is a premium feature.

Reading the Timeline

The screen splits in two.

On the left is a compact list of your goals, subgoals, and projects, showing each one's name and how much time is left on it. Items with a deadline behind them show it in red, so an overrun is visible without opening anything.

On the right is the timeline itself. Each item is a bar spanning from its start date to its deadline, and a vertical line marks today, so where a bar sits relative to that line tells you whether you're ahead or behind.

Subgoals and projects nest under the goal they belong to. Expand a goal in the left panel and they appear as their own bars, which is how you see whether the steps inside a goal are sequenced or all landing at once.

Items without dates still show in the left panel. Hover the row and a gray placeholder appears on the timeline, click it to drop the item on and set when it runs. It's how you schedule the goals, subgoals, and projects you've never scoped, right where you spot them.

Changing the Time Range

Four zoom levels sit at the top of the timeline:

Next to them are three navigation controls: < steps back one period, > steps forward one, and the button between them jumps back to today.

Rescheduling by Dragging

Drag a bar along the timeline to change the goal's start date and deadline directly, without opening it. This is the fastest way to push a goal back a quarter when it's clear it isn't happening this one, and it's the main reason to plan here rather than in the list.

Grouping the Left Panel

The timeline uses the same three grouping modes as the Goals list, switched from the screen header:

Grouping by deadline is the one worth trying during quarterly planning. It puts everything due in the same quarter next to each other, so an overloaded Q4 is obvious before you commit to it.

Narrowing What You See

The Filter control in the top-right narrows the timeline the same way it narrows the Goals list:

Filtering to high-impact goals is a quick way to check whether your most important work has room to breathe or is stacked on top of itself.

The filter is remembered between visits, so the view you set up is the one you come back to.

New sits alongside it, so you can create a goal or project without leaving the timeline.

Timeline or Roadmap?

Griply has two views that lay goals out visually, and they answer different questions:

• The Timeline, its own section under Plan, covers every goal, subgoal, and project across your whole account, so you use it to see how your commitments distribute over time.

• The Roadmap is scoped to one place: inside a goal it shows that goal's subgoals and projects, and inside a life area it shows that area's goals and projects. See Goals and Life Areas.

Reach for the timeline when you're planning across everything, and the Roadmap when you're focused on a single goal or life area.

Best Practices

• Check the quarter view during planning → It shows overcommitment more honestly than a list does.

• Schedule your unscoped items → Undated goals, subgoals, and projects still show on the left; hover a row and click the placeholder to give it dates and pull it into the picture.

• Filter to high impact → If your most important goals are all in the same six weeks, something has to move.

• Drag rather than retype → Pushing a bar is faster than opening a goal to edit two dates.

• Zoom out once a quarter → The 5Y view is where multi-year goals stop feeling abstract. See Yearly, Quarterly & Monthly Planning.