Follow a running story as a chronology: dated events with sources, updated as it moves, embedded live in the article so readers always see the current version.
A running story is a chronology whether or not anybody writes one down. The value of writing it down is that the twelfth development lands in a structure instead of a pile.
Keeping up with a story that moves
Add each development as it lands: the date — down to the minute where the day matters — what happened, who was involved, and the source it came from. "Has a source" is one of the filters, so unsourced entries stand out before publication rather than after.
Tags cut across a long story: every event tagged "court", or "statement", in the order they happened. The Log style is the same events as a sortable table, which is the view to open when a colleague asks for everything in a given week.
Publishing it inside the piece
Advanced adds an iframe snippet for a published timeline. It goes into the article as one tag, with no script and no key, and every event added afterwards shows up in the frame — so a story updated for six months does not need the article re-published each time.
The frame is served with a noindex header by design, so it never competes with your own article in search. The timeline’s page on boromlia.com stays a separate, linkable URL if you want one.
Taking it away
Export writes a print document built for A4, a CSV with one row per event and every field, and a zip of the images with a manifest. The CSV is the same file the importer reads back, so a chronology moves between a spreadsheet and a timeline without being retyped.
Views worth leaving open
Log: Everything in a given week, sorted, in one table.
River: The reading view: what happened, in order, with the pictures.
Map: Where a story happened, when that is the story.
Questions
Does an embedded timeline update by itself?
Yes. The frame loads the live timeline, so an event added an hour ago is in the article an hour ago. Nothing is exported or re-published.
Will the embed compete with my article in search?
No. Embed URLs carry a noindex response header, so the frame stays out of results and the article keeps the ranking.
How precise can a date be?
As precise as the story needs. A timeline’s horizon runs from years down to seconds, and any event can be a single moment or a range.