Timeline View

The timeline view automatically organizes images by date. To access the timeline view, click the “Timeline” button near the bottom of the Image Archive pane.

The top of the timeline view has a drop-down list where you can choose the date by which images are sorted:

Order by Exif Date

This option sorts images by the creation date as recorded by the digital camera. You’ll quickly find last year’s vacation photos and can enjoy your memories day by day.

Order by File Date

This option sorts images based on the day that they were copied to your computer. This can be helpful for scanned and other images that lack Exif information.

Order by Modification Date

This option sorts images based on the date when they were last edited. This is an excellent way to locate images that you recently have been working on – regardless of which albums and subfolders they may reside in.

To drill down to a particular day, click on a year, and then a particular month. The calendar control will switch to the selected month, highlighting days with images.

Click a highlighted day to view all images for that particular day. Click the “right arrow” or “left arrow” button to browse to a different month.

In the preferences panel "Image Archive" (accessed via the item "Image Archive" in the "Preferences Menu"), you can choose that the timeline view will display matching images as soon as you have picked either a year or a month. To set your preference, click on "Timeline" and then click a checkbox under "Show Images in Month or Year View".

Keep in mind that this setting might result in larger number of images being displayed. Of course, starting from the yearly view, the number of images displayed typically will get less, as you drill down to a particular month or day.