A timeline of any topic, built from what you saved

Following a story means following it over weeks or months. The first report, the reaction, the correction, the consequence and the follow-up rarely arrive together, and they rarely use the same words. A folder of bookmarks keeps the pieces but loses the order; a feed keeps the order but forgets everything older than a few days.

A narrative timeline gives you both. Every related save sits on a dated axis, with the gaps between them labelled — “3 weeks later”, “5 months later” — so you can see when a story was quiet and when it moved. A short summary at the top says how it developed across everything you saved.

It finds related saves two ways. First by meaning: WHT.day understands what each save is about, so a post saying “another one burning off Fujairah” and an article headlined “Gulf shipping attacks escalate” are recognised as the same story even though they share no words. Then by name: it searches your archive for the places, people, organisations and terms the story involves.

It keeps only what belongs. Everything it found is read against the story, and saves that only share a word or a broad topic are left out. Each one it keeps gets a line on what that item reported happened.

It puts them in order. Saves are placed on the day you saved them.

Every timeline has two settings. Exact match follows one story: the same place, the same people, and what followed from it. Start from a report of a tanker attack and you get that campaign of attacks, the insurance rates that moved because of it and the naval response.

Broad follows the subject the story belongs to, wherever and whoever it involves. Start from a post about one drone strike and Broad gives you drone warfare across every conflict you have saved — the technology, its uses, the countermeasures and the companies behind it. Both versions are saved, so you can flip between them instantly.

The quickest way in is the calendar icon on any saved item: it builds that item’s timeline. The other way in is search. Search your archive for a subject — “AI safety”, “digital ID”, “Red Sea shipping” — and press Build timeline from these results. The same search always leads back to the same saved timeline, so you can return to it as the story moves. How search finds things by meaning.

You decide what belongs. Remove anything with one click and the next-best related save takes its place — chosen to resemble what you kept and not what you removed, so the timeline learns what you mean. Removed items are listed underneath and can be restored, and your removals are remembered when you rebuild the timeline with newer saves.

Click any entry to open the archived copy you saved, with the full text, or follow the link to the original on the publisher’s site.

Following a conflict or a crisis from the first report onward. Lining up the headlines behind a market move. Tracking a technology — AI, drones, digital identity — as it spreads. Preparing a piece, a podcast or a briefing with every claim tied to a dated source. Settling “when did that actually happen?” with the evidence in hand.

Timelines work on everything in your archive, including posts brought in by automatic X bookmark sync, so the more you save, the richer they get.