A Kanban board answers one question well: what is happening right now? The columns show who is working on what and what is waiting for review. While a project has twenty tasks, that is plenty.

At eighty tasks it breaks. The "To Do" column gets its own scrollbar, due dates hide on the cards, and the question "will we make it by the end of the month?" cannot be answered without someone reading every card and writing dates into a notebook.

So every project in CTM now has four views over the same data. The switcher sits in the project header and your choice is remembered per project.

Timeline — when the question is "when"

The timeline is the Gantt view of a project. Each task is a bar from its start date to its due date, and the scale switches between days, weeks, and months. Project phases are drawn as milestones above the bars, so you can see where the project is supposed to be in any given week.

It is not just a picture to look at. Dates can be changed right there:

Dragging a bar moves the start and the due date together — the whole task shifts a week later
Dragging an edge changes only that end — you extend a task without moving its start
A date preview follows the drag, so you do not land a day off by accident

If the server refuses the change — because the task is in review or already done and its due date is locked — the bar snaps back and tells you why. Tasks without dates are not lost either: they are listed in a footer below the axis, so you can see what is still unplanned.

List — when the question is "who and in what state"

The list is one long column of tasks, grouped by whatever you are dealing with: status, priority, assignee, due date, or phase. Grouping by assignee answers "who are we overloading?" in three seconds. Grouping by due date shows what is burning this week.

Finished work is ticked off directly in the list, without opening the task detail. Going through the list after a meeting, that is the difference between one minute and ten.

Table — when you need to compare

The table has nine columns — status, priority, assignees, start, due date, phase, labels and more — and sorts on any header. It is the fastest route to the two uncomfortable lists every project has: what is overdue, and what has nobody assigned.

Kanban — when the question is "what now"

Kanban has not gone anywhere and stays the default view for daily work. Drag and drop between columns works exactly as before. The only change is that it no longer has to answer questions it was never built for.

How to switch between them

The switcher is in the project header next to the project name. Your choice is saved for that project — a development project can stay on Kanban while a client engagement with hard deadlines opens straight into the timeline.

The selected view is also reflected in the page address. A link ending in ?view=timeline opens exactly the view you are describing in a message — no need to explain where to click.

No surcharge, on every plan

All four views, timeline included, are part of core task management and work on the Free plan too.

It is worth saying why we stress this. A Gantt view is typically the ticket into paid tiers elsewhere: Asana offers Timeline only on its paid plans, Monday.com's Gantt starts at the Standard tier, and ClickUp's free Gantt is limited by usage. Since these tools charge per user, "we want to see deadlines on a time axis" quickly turns into hundreds of euros a year for a team of ten.

In CTM there is nothing to unlock. The paid plans add meetings, vacation approvals, integrations, and AI — not basic ways of looking at your own tasks.

Open any project and switch to the timeline. If it immediately shows you that three tasks are due on the same day and one of them belongs to someone who is on holiday that week, it has done its job.

When Kanban Stops Being Enough: List, Table and Timeline Views