Upload up to 300 photos and let their dates and places make the events, or import up to 1,000 rows from a CSV file, checking every one before it is saved.
Nobody should type a long chronology twice. If the events are in a folder of photographs or in a spreadsheet already, Boromlia reads them from there, and you check the result before anything is saved.
Step by step
1. Upload a batch of photos. The dates and places fill themselves in. A photo carries its own timestamp and coordinates. Those get read before anything uploads, photos taken near each other in time and place are gathered together, and each group comes back to you as a draft event. Up to 300 photos at a time, picked or dragged in Dates and coordinates read off the originals, and the coordinates turned into a place name iPhone HEIC files converted on the way in Rename or drop any group before an event is made of it
2. Import a whole file of events. A chronology that already exists in a spreadsheet does not need typing out again. Point at the file, say which column is which, and check what it made of them before a word is written. CSV, TSV or TXT, with the delimiter worked out for you; save an Excel file as CSV first Your own headings matched to When, Name, Location, Source and the rest Every row in a preview with a checkbox, duplicates skipped, up to 1,000 at a time A column with nowhere to go is kept on the event anyway
Good to know
The photo upload is on every plan; the file import is on Advanced.
A file goes into the timeline you have open; an import adds events and never changes the ones already there.
Category takes one of five values: personal, travel, education, career or achievement. Leave the column out if yours do not fit.
Photos are not carried in a CSV. Add them afterwards with the photo upload, which dates and places them for you.
The easiest template is a CSV exported from Boromlia itself: the importer reads its column names first.
Questions
Can I import an Excel file directly?
No. Save it as CSV first, from Excel, Google Sheets or Numbers. The importer reads .csv, .tsv and .txt files up to 5 MB.
Does it work with iPhone photos?
Yes. HEIC and HEIF files are accepted and converted to JPEG on upload, so they show in every browser.