Timeline tracker allows you to watch as your tasks progress through their essential steps, following a timeline and status flow. It allows monitoring project steps or events over a certain period of time along horizontal or vertical line (bar) representing chronology, from left to right or top to bottom. Usually it is software with Calendar view that provides you with special visual mode to track timeline , but project tracking function also refers to simple software that represents project chronology in tabular or list form, so almost every example of organizing program that provides possibility to work with time-ordered to-do list can be called tracker .

Special timeline tracker implies the possibility to easily navigate, update, and retrieve information by using a versatile toolset which all operations are carried out through. Let's consider some specific products that provide database supported by versatile toolsets to plan and track working hours of projects and processes.

• Specific examples

VIP Task Manager is well-featured client-server tool for timeline tracking that enables all team members to use common database and switch between different viewing modes in order to plan, assign, schedule, overview and report tasks. This project timeline tracker ensures team collaboration and data updating through server component which should be placed within your LAN and/or on a server opened to Internet access.

VIP Organizer is individual software as it has no calendar tool to track working hours on time grid, but instead of this it provides effective and versatile to-do list mode. VIP Organizer , as proper tabular timeline tracker , allows you to schedule, be reminded and track timeline of events (tasks, appointments etc.) in terms of dates, priorities and categories.