August 2025 Product Update – Create richer, more collaborative, and interactive stories
Jim Verburgt
Digital Marketeer
Timepath Product Update – August 2025
This month, we’re rolling out three major improvements designed to make your storytelling more interactive, flexible, and engaging. And we have a sneak peek at what’s coming next.
1. Comment Feature – Now live
Collaborate directly on timelines by adding general or event-specific feedback. This feature is designed to support teamwork and editing of timelines. You can also mark comments as open or completed to track progress.
Key points:
Provide general feedback or event-specific feedback.
Mark comments as completed or "to do."
Tag users in the comments.
Getting started:
Go to the timeline editor
Click on 'comment' in the top navigation
Add comments and tag users
Monitor and manage comments easily through the comment panel.
2. Advanced Timeline – Now live
Our most advanced timeline template ever gives you greater control over how events are displayed and how your audience can explore them.
What’s new:
Start and end dates for events – perfect for showing events as time periods, not just single points.
Relative positioning – events are placed based on their time span, helping readers understand sequence and overlap.
Event cards – choose between simple dots or detailed cards with summaries, images, and links.
Zoom levels – navigate through centuries, decades, 5-year spans, years, months, weeks, and days.
Full-screen view – click any event to see it in a distraction-free, full-size display.
Extra controls:
Advanced control panel for intuitive zoom and scroll.
Flexible views to switch between compact or detailed mode.
Custom date range for the whole timeline to keep focus on relevant periods.
3. Quiz with open questions – Now live
Quizzes are no longer limited to multiple choice. You can now create open-ended questions where participants type their answers.
New options:
Multiple correct answers – accept different valid responses.
Case sensitivity – choose if answers must match exact casing.
Image enlargement – when an image is attached, participants can click to see a larger view.
How to create an open question:
Open the Quiz Editor and add a new question.
Select “Open Question” as the type.
Add your question text and optional image.
Enter all valid answers and set case sensitivity.
Publish your quiz and review responses.
*Coming soon – Map-based navigation
Launching in early September, map-based navigation will add a spatial dimension to your stories. You’ll be able to link events to specific locations and let readers “fly” across a map from one moment to the next.
Why it’s exciting:
Place-based storytelling – combine when and where something happened.
Interactive maps – pan, zoom, and follow a guided route.
Perfect pairing – use alongside the Advanced Timeline for richer context.