Timeliner
What's New

Plan the capacity,
automate the rest

The two biggest additions Timeliner has shipped: a capacity planner that tells you who is actually free, and a rules engine that moves work forward without you. Plus rebuilt analytics, a rebuilt client portal, permanent task IDs, and storage you can finally clean up.

Workload & capacity planning

Agency+

Know who's free before you promise a deadline

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Drag a task onto a member's day to book it

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11h booked vs 8h capacity

Every agency owner answers “can we take this on?” with a guess. Workload answers it with hours. Set a daily capacity per editor, give tasks a time estimate, and the plan draws itself - with a warning the moment a new deadline overbooks someone.

  • Every team member gets a daily capacity in hours. Each task's time estimate - a single total, or broken down per assignee - spreads across the working days between its start date and deadline.
  • A backlog rail holds everything unscheduled. Drag a task onto a person's day and it's booked; the task bar sets how many hours it takes.
  • Time off and production blocks (shoots, admin time) take capacity like any task, and dropping work on a day off is refused outright.
  • Change an estimate or move a deadline and Timeliner warns you before you commit: "Tom is over capacity on Tuesday - 11h booked vs 8h capacity." Advisory, never a hard block.
  • Subscribe booked work into Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook through a read-only feed.

The Automations Center

Agency+

When this happens, do that - no Zapier bill required

AutomationsEnable automations

RULES

Approved → next stage

Status · Approved

Assign the Colorist

Stage · Grading

Brief due 21d before publish

Publish date set

Nudge after 3 days idle

Status · In revision

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A no-code rule builder that runs inside Timeliner, against your own tasks. Nothing to authenticate, no per-task automation cost, and nothing to repair when someone else's webhook times out.

  • Triggers: a status change (one status or several at once), a stage change on a custom Select column, a new version upload - optionally filtered by clip duration or orientation - a publish date being scheduled or moved, or a date column being set.
  • Actions: move stages, set a status, notify people, assign or unassign by member or by sub-role, set deadlines and start dates, set a time estimate, apply a pricing template, write a date column, and set a posting time.
  • "Assign the Colorist" resolves when the rule runs, not when you wrote it - so hiring someone new never means editing your rules.
  • Under a publish-date trigger, offsets count backwards: "brief due 21 days before publish" is one rule, and rescheduling the post recomputes the whole chain.
  • Off by default behind a workspace master switch, with a per-rule run history showing which actions ran, which were skipped, and why. Rules can also be created from the API and the Timeliner MCP.
Also in this release

Analytics, rebuilt from the card up

Every analytics card was redrawn, and each one now opens into a full-screen detail overlay instead of a cramped tooltip.

  • New cards: pipeline health, team performance, time tracking, stage duration & revisions, capacity & media - each with its own drill-down overlay.
  • A Finance section that answers the end-of-month questions: receivables, payouts, a payment ledger, and per-project profitability with a "why this amount" audit table behind every figure.
  • Social posting analytics rebuilt around views: channel performance, the post funnel, best time to post, top posts, and per-post performance.
  • Direct exports from every card, plus agency-branded PDFs you can hand to a client.

Every task now has a permanent ID

  • Each task is issued a stable handle at creation - TL-1042 and friends - that survives renames, moves between projects, and status changes.
  • Quote it in a brief, an invoice, or a client email and it still resolves years later.
  • Searchable and visible across list, kanban, and the task page.

The client portal, rebuilt

  • Board, calendar, and analytics views at every level - brand, project, and folder - not just a flat deliverable list.
  • A brand home with an all-media view and folder previews, plus poster tiles and inline deadlines in the stage timeline.
  • A redesigned list view with expandable folders, shift range-select, and hover scrubbing.
  • Clients get their own analytics: KPI tiles, status and media splits, and per-post performance - with your costs, margins, and internal deadlines never exposed.

Decide what clients see, comment by comment

  • Mark any comment Internal or Public straight from the composer - on video tasks and doc tasks alike - with a badge on the card and in the thread.
  • Internal revision rounds are hidden from clients entirely: they see versions renumbered from V1, so "we're on V6" never becomes a conversation.
  • The client brief is hidden by default, and you choose when to share it.

Storage Management

  • See exactly where your storage went - by brand, by project, and by category (current deliverables, old versions, raw files, attachments, brand files, comment files, trash).
  • Guided cleanup picks surface the biggest reclaimable wins, usually superseded old versions, and let you review before acting.
  • Everything you clean goes to Trash first and stays restorable for 30 days. Trashed items now record who deleted them.

HQ - boards for your own team

  • Private, team-only boards for the work that isn't a client deliverable: ops tasks, SOP docs, light CRM, and asset shelves.
  • Clients and guests never see them, ever.
  • Includes a built-in time-tracker field, item docs, comments, files, and templates. 5 boards on Studio, unlimited on Agency and up.

AI that learns how you write

  • AI now drafts YouTube titles and tags, not just captions - with a refine bar to push a draft shorter, punchier, or more on-brand.
  • It remembers your corrections: edit a draft and the next one sounds more like you. Promote a correction to the brand voice to make it permanent.
  • Voice-memo comments are transcribed automatically, so spoken feedback is searchable and readable.

Structure, templates & sub-folders

  • Projects can hold sub-folders now, not just a flat task list.
  • Snapshot any project's task structure as a template and apply it to the next one.
  • Per-sub-role hourly rates: a colorist and a rough-cut editor can bill different rates on the same project, and rates freeze on approval so later changes never rewrite past numbers.
  • An audit-grade activity log with from→to status moves, actor roles, and CSV export.
Previously - July 2026

Content Calendar & Social Posting

Beta

Plan, approve & publish your clients' posts - without leaving Timeliner

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Every approved deliverable has one more step: getting posted. The new content calendar closes that gap - drag tasks onto a month, week, or day view (per brand, per project, or across all clients), compose the post, collect the client's sign-off, and let Timeliner publish it on schedule.

  • Compose once, publish everywhere: a shared caption with per-network overrides, platform options (YouTube title, tags & Shorts, Instagram feed/reel/story, TikTok settings), hashtag groups, and a live phone preview.
  • Client approval built in: clients sign off on the caption, thumbnail, and timing right from their share link - an unapproved post is held, never published.
  • Auto-publishing is live for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube & LinkedIn - X is coming next. Plan those posts on the calendar today.
  • Clients connect their own accounts through a no-login invite link - no passwords changing hands.
  • Best-time suggestions, drag-to-reschedule, and posting analytics (reach, engagement, top posts) close the loop.

Your AI can write the captions now

New in the API

The Timeliner MCP & API got smarter - they can craft posts and captions for you

Any AI connected through the Timeliner MCP - Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT - could already read your posting calendar: captions, publish status, live post links. Now it can write, too. Tell it “draft captions for next week's posts” and the copy lands directly in each post's composer, ready for your review.

  • Ask your AI to draft the copy: it reads the post's context from your workspace and writes the shared caption or per-network versions - a punchier TikTok hook, a longer YouTube description.
  • Safe by design: AI can craft captions but can never schedule, move, or publish a post - and if a client already approved a caption, an AI edit sends it back for re-review.
  • Works ahead of the plan: caption deliverables before they're even on the calendar, and the copy is waiting in the composer.

Janet keeps getting sharper

Janet - Timeliner's in-app AI - picked up a memory for what happens in your workspace, and a completely rebuilt first-run experience.

  • Ask about history: "who did what today?", "which tasks were approved this week?" - Janet now reads the activity log and status-move history.
  • Her actions and undos show up in the UI instantly - no page refresh.
  • New onboarding: Janet interviews you, sets up your workspace, and shows a live preview of your client portal as it takes shape.

Client portal & share links

  • Clients now see the posting plan on brand-level share links - the shared calendar shows every scheduled post.
  • Your branding follows the client everywhere: per-brand portal design and per-link theme overrides now apply to logged-in guests too.
  • Guest approvers can do more themselves: rename tasks, organize files in Raw files & Assets, and recreate share links.
  • Bulk review is back and better on the share grid - approve buttons plus marquee drag-select.
  • Quieter for clients: no notifications when your team moves statuses on a client's behalf, "Forever" links really last forever, and the end-client column is clearly labeled "Awaiting End Client Approval".

Downloads, files & imports

  • Every bulk download now asks: one ZIP or separate files - on tasks, projects, folders, and share links alike.
  • Brand folders zip server-side, so big raw-file folders download reliably, and project ZIPs are named after the project.
  • Import brands & projects from CSV or XLSX, straight from the sidebar's + menu.
  • The Raw files & Assets dialog now uses nearly the whole screen, and MXF footage is recognized as media.

Transcripts & audio

  • Downloaded transcripts are named after their task (transcript-<task name>.srt/.txt).
  • Audio files now transcode reliably on their own pipeline, and silent videos no longer leave transcripts stuck at 99%.

Polish & under the hood

  • Insert tables in the media-task Instructions tab, and hover a variant thumbnail in list view for a live video preview.
  • Variant approvals reset when the parent task advances to a new review stage - no stale sign-offs.
  • File uploads batch into a single notification per upload session, with a new "File uploads" group in batch notification settings.
  • Task creation now shows in the Activity Log, and discarding a running timer keeps your saved time logs.
Previously - June 2026

Timeliner MCP

Connect Timeliner to your AI tools

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Built in too - meet Janet, your in-app AI

Plug Timeliner directly into AI agents like Claude, Cursor, and VS Code using a workspace API key. Find it under Settings → Developers → “Timeliner MCP” with copy-paste setup snippets and one-click key generation.

  • Automate Timeliner straight from your AI tools - create tasks, pull project status, draft post captions, and more.
  • One workspace API key with copy-paste setup snippets for Claude, Cursor & VS Code.
  • Your workspace becomes something your AI can actually read and act on.

Janet AI

Elite · Beta

Your AI assistant, built into Timeliner

Prefer your AI built in? Meet Janet - Timeliner's in-app assistant. Ask about your workspace in plain language and let her take action, with every change confirmed before it happens and undoable after.

  • Ask anything in plain language - "what's overdue?", "how's the team doing?", "where does Ep.12 live?"
  • Take action: create brands, projects, tasks and folders - every write is confirm-gated and undoable.
  • Grounded in your real workspace and scoped to exactly what you're allowed to see.

Everything else from the June batch

  • On-demand video transcription (Elite) - select words in the transcript to comment on the exact moment, with full RTL support.
  • Intake forms - polished live preview (mobile + desktop framing), now available on Basic-template workspaces too.
  • Client review & sharing - shareable brand raw files, one unified project brief, private folders that stay private, faster downloads, and auto-revert when clients comment via share links.
  • Smarter boards - custom colored-pill Select columns and group-by on any list or kanban board.
  • Live doc collaboration - true real-time co-editing with presence, no conflict banners.
  • Smarter notifications - task assignments batch into your digest; announcement banners target team, guests, or both.

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