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Create a single-page timeline on a horizontal artboard sized 1200×400 px showing five key project dates and one-line c…

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AExecute — “help me do it”Create a single-page timeline on a horizontal artboard sized 1200×400 px showing five key…+
Create a single-page timeline on a horizontal artboard sized 1200×400 px showing five key project dates and one-line captions in chronological order; set guides at 100 px margins and enable the grid so spacing is consistent.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.
BImprove — “do it better”Before finalising, make the timeline instantly scannable for museum visitors: surface the three…+
Before finalising, make the timeline instantly scannable for museum visitors: surface the three most consequential dates with larger dots and bolder captions, align all dates to the grid, and export one PNG sized for the handout and one SVG for the exhibit page.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

The real tasks

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Create a simple timeline graphic that communicates key dates and events from a research project so readers can grasp sequence at a glance.

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Questions people ask

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Because you rarely think 'I want the redaction tool'. You think 'I have to share this without leaking the client's details'. Start from the need, and the feature finds you.

Real. Every job here was drawn from what people in real roles were actually seen doing in Illustrator — not a feature checklist.

No. Each page gives you a ready prompt you can paste into an AI assistant, plus the plain steps to do it yourself. Start with either — the goal is the finished job, not the tool.