The timeline editor holds everything about a wedding day: the blocks that make up the schedule, the notes attached to each one, and the coverage window that marks your booked hours against the rest of the day. Your first timeline covers the basics of getting a day built. This article covers how the editor itself works.
The agenda view
A timeline opens in the Agenda view: the day as a list, first block to last, with each block's start time in the margin and the golden hour, sunset, and coverage markers threaded through at their own times.
The block palette runs along the side, one row per event type: Getting Ready, First Look, Portraits, Wedding Party Photos, Family Photos, Ceremony, Cocktail Hour, Reception, Party Bus, Travel, and Buffer / Break. Drag a row into the list and the gaps between blocks light up as drop targets. You can also skip the drag: hover any gap and a plus appears, and clicking it opens a picker for the block type.
Either way, the new block's times come from its neighbors. Drop it above an existing block and it ends where that block starts, so it tucks in cleanly. Drop it after the last block and it starts where that block ends. The very first block on an empty day opens its editor with placeholder times, ready for you to type the real ones.
To move a block, click it to select it, then press the up or down arrow keys. Each press proposes a fifteen-minute shift, earlier or later, and the timeline asks you to confirm before anything is saved. Shift-click to select a run of blocks and move them together. To change one block's schedule precisely, open it and edit its start and end times directly.
The 24-hour view
The toggle at the top of the timeline switches between Agenda and 24-hour. The 24-hour view lays the same day out against a time scale, so an hour of the day is always the same height on screen. Use it to see the day in proportion: long blocks look long, dead gaps in the schedule show up as empty space, and blocks that overlap sit side by side so a conflict is visible at a glance.
Editing works more physically here. Drag a block up or down the scale to move it, snapping to the nearest fifteen minutes, or drag its top or bottom edge to change its length. The view you pick is remembered on that device, so if you prefer to work in one of them, the timeline keeps opening there.
Times and durations
You never type a block's duration directly. Duration is always the gap between the block's start and its end; move either edge and the duration follows. The end-time field in the block editor accepts shorthand: type 230 after a 2:00 start and it reads as 2:30. Type a bare hour like 9 and it reads as whichever of 9 AM or 9 PM falls after your start time, rather than defaulting to whichever comes first.
Notes and subtasks
Every block has two note fields, and they behave differently:
- Notes travel with the block wherever it's seen: in your account, and by the couple if the block itself is visible to clients.
- Internal notes stay inside your studio. They never appear on the share link or the exported PDF, no matter how the block's visibility is set. Use them for a vendor contact, a parking note, or anything else you'd rather not put in front of the couple.
Subtasks break a block into smaller steps. Each subtask can carry its own time or stay untimed. Untimed subtasks list first, followed by timed ones in order. Travel time between locations shows up here too: when you place a block with a location next to another timed block that also has one, Daymarked offers to add a travel subtask between them. Travel subtasks always sort to the bottom of the list, so they read as connective tissue between stops rather than a task in the day.
The coverage window
Coverage is the window of hours you're actually booked to shoot, and it's separate from the full day on the timeline; a wedding can run well past what you're covering. You enter the number of coverage hours when you create the wedding, but the window itself doesn't appear until you place a Ceremony block with a start time and place the window. A nudge invites you to place it once the block is in.
Placing the window centers it on the ceremony's start time. In the agenda view it appears as "Coverage" and "Coverage ends" marker rows at the right points in the list; in the 24-hour view it renders as a shaded band across the day. To adjust the hours or the exact start and end, click either coverage marker in the agenda view to reopen the coverage editor, or drag the markers directly in the 24-hour view.