Your archive holds a story. TimeWeave lets everyone see it.
TimeWeave reads your historic magazines, newsletters and yearbooks, finds the people, events and photos inside them, and weaves everything into one living, searchable timeline.
Set up your archive free. Scan up to 3 of your own magazines and see the full result before you choose a plan.
No re-typing. No manual tagging.
If your history lives in PDFs, TimeWeave can read it. Bring the publications you already hold and let the archive build itself.
From pages to people, events and photos
TimeWeave does the cross-referencing a researcher would otherwise do by hand, across every publication you upload.
Ingest
Upload your PDFs. TimeWeave counts the pages and works through them in order, remembering where it got to.
Read
Page by page, it finds people, events, photos and the evidence for each, with the exact page they came from.
Reconcile
Mentions of the same real-world occurrence across different publications are brought together into one event.
Explore
Everyone can browse the result as an interactive timeline, by person, by peer year, or across the whole institution.
No single tool does all of this. TimeWeave brings together a combination of technologies, each used where it is the right fit, and leaves the final say with your people.
An archive people actually explore
Everything is linked, sourced and ready to browse, not filed away.
One living timeline
Filter by highlights, people, category, source or year and watch decades of history fall into place.
People, connected
Every person found is brought together into one record and can be matched to the records you already hold.
Events, not just mentions
Three articles about one prize night become one event, with all three sources kept alongside it.
Photos in context
Photos are lifted from the page and attached to the right event. One click opens the original page.
Evidence behind every fact
Publication, PDF page and printed page number are kept, so a claim can always be checked at its source.
Weaves to collect and share
Anyone can gather their favourite cards into a weave - a team, a year group, a family - and share it with one link.
What your community will see
Examples from an imaginary school, Westbrook College. Your archive looks like this, built from your own pages.
One event, every source
A cricket final reported in the magazine, the newsletter and the yearbook becomes one card.
- The photo is lifted from the page. Click it to open the magazine at that page.
- Each source keeps its publication, page number and the words that support it.
- Names link to that person's own story.
One person, one thread
Pick a name and the timeline becomes that person's story, from their first class photo onwards.
- Personal mentions and the bigger events they were part of, in date order.
- Switch to a peer year to see a whole cohort - ready-made for reunions.
- Add more people to see where their stories cross.
Weaves: stories people build themselves
A weave is a hand-picked set of cards with a name of its own: a team's season, a family across three generations, the history of a building.
- Add any card to a weave with one click.
- Share a weave with a link, or make it public for everyone to browse.
- Administrators can see and manage every weave in one place.
Archives store items. TimeWeave tells stories.
A traditional archive is organised by issue, date and page. To follow one person or one event, the reader has to open issue after issue and join the dots by hand.
TimeWeave links people and events across every publication into a single continuous thread, so the story is already assembled when someone arrives.
A say for the people in your pages
A printed magazine never asked anyone how they wanted to be remembered, and a shelf of scanned PDFs simply repeats it. TimeWeave gives your community a voice.
- Hide my mention. Anyone can ask for their own mention to be hidden from the timeline, search and weaves.
- Reviewed by your team. Every request goes to your administrators, and nothing changes until they agree.
- No account needed. People who can't or don't want to log in can use the contact form instead.
- Corrections welcome. The same button lets people fix a date, suggest a better photo or add what's missing.
Any institution with a history worth telling
Students and alumni, staff and faculty, members, trustees, employees, volunteers, donors: TimeWeave looks for everyone who appears in your publications.
Schools and alumni
Reunions, cohorts and decades of school life, by peer year.
Charities and foundations
Show supporters the story of the people and the impact behind the cause.
Clubs and associations
Seasons, teams, office holders and milestones kept and celebrated.
Businesses and institutions
A heritage record of people, projects and moments across the years.
TimeWeave does the heavy lifting. Your archivists keep the final say.
- Source-linked. Every event points back to the publication and page it came from.
- Cautious by design. When TimeWeave is unsure two mentions match, it keeps them apart.
- Human edits are protected. What an archivist corrects, hides or highlights stays that way.
See your own archive as a story
Set up your own TimeWeave archive and scan up to 3 of your magazines free - see the full result before you choose a plan.