After you have defined the chronology and pressed Finish, there are just a few things left to do:

  • Create some instructions about how you want particular columns to be used
  • Decide whether you want to protect the chronology with a password
  • Update, create or delete any Author Notes
  • Save the file

User instructions

It makes sense to tell people how you expect each column to be used. When you press Finish on the Summary tab, Chronolator generates an Information Table with a description of each column, including any information about what checks it will make. 


Before you press OK to create the chronology, you might want to open the sample email in the online Help.  You can open it directly by pressing here in this Almost there! panel. Copy it, and paste it into a new email or document.


After you press OK, you can paste the information into the new email or document.

You can update the pasted version with any information or instructions you want to include.


Press instructions at the top of this Almost there! panel for the following hints about pasting, which assume you are pasting into a new, blank document.

Use the Paste button on the Home tab, or press Ctrl+V.

Preserving formatting

Excel and Google Docs

Excel and Google Docs should automatically preserve the table formatting.

Microsoft Word and Outlook email

In Word and Outlook, you need to ensure that you paste using the Keep source formatting option on the small Paste Options pop-up menu

 (for more information, see the Microsoft article at tinyurl.com/paste-into-word).

Password Protection

If you want to protect the chronology with a password, use Edit > Password.

Author Notes

By default, Chronolator adds some Author Notes to the chronology:


These are there to remind you what to do next. You will probably want to delete them.


If you use an open document as a Model, any notes in the document dated in the year 0100 are copied across, and no default notes are created.


You can also add your own. Either use one of the buttons above the table, or right-click any event to display this Context Menu:

In the Source of Information column, type a single word beginning with one of the characters  # ^ ¬ ~.

You can add an Author Note wherever you like; give it a Date and Time to put it in the relevant place in the chronology. If you want it to be at the start of the chronology give it a date in the year 0100 (it will not appear in the Timeline views in Chronolator Review).

Save the file

Use File > Save to save as txt or File > Export to save as JSON.


You must save as txt if you want to use a password.