Keeps a dated lifecycle log on the tags of an idea, from when it was created to whatever stages a ladder of its own names, and draws the rail that orders them.

A lifecycle is a dictionary of stage names to dates, folded into the note’s own tags, so it travels with the note and any view that can read tags can read it.

#import "@rookery/core:0.1.0": idea, rookery
#import "@rookery/timeline:0.1.0": timeline-tags, timeline-view
#show: rookery

#let NOW = datetime(year: 2027, month: 1, day: 5)

/* Three stage names are reserved: scheduled, deadline and closed. Every other
   rung is vocabulary you invent for the thing you are tracking. A stage may
   also be a dictionary rather than a bare date, needing a timestamp: and
   taking an optional note:. */
#let wolf = timeline-tags(
  deadline: datetime(year: 2026, month: 11, day: 1),
  timeline: (
    submitted:         datetime(year: 2026, month: 10, day: 28),
    longlisted:        datetime(year: 2026, month: 12, day: 15),
    "first-interview": datetime(year: 2027, month: 1, day: 20),
  ),
)

#idea("wolf", tags: wolf)[A round in flight.]
#timeline-view((created: datetime(year: 2026, month: 10, day: 1)), wolf, today: NOW)

Taking the dates as arguments

The package also ships a skin, so the stages can be arguments instead of a fragment you merge yourself.

#import "@rookery/timeline:0.1.0": idea, rookery, window

/* Writing the same stage twice, once as an argument and again inside
   timeline:, is an error rather than a last-one-wins. Number a stage that
   genuinely happens more than once (review-1, review-2) and match it with a
   review-* family rung. */
#idea("ship", deadline: d, timeline: (submitted: d2))[Cut the release.]