HAUSE

Timeline

Dated entries, in order — history as prose, not a widget.

MEET THE FORM ↓
01 / THE ENCOUNTERA STATEMENT — THE READER READS

A STUDY IN TIMELINE

Time leaves a record.

Follow the recorded development of HAUSE. Dates anchor what happened; they do not prescribe what must happen next.

From extraction
to exhibition.

EVOLUTION

2026-08-29

Extracted from chrishayuk into its own repository, grown by the vindex3.org build, and renamed HAUSE.

2026-08-30

The legibility layer: the Answer form, the seo builders, machine legibility stated as doctrine.

2026-08-31

The citable surface: cite.ts, Provenance and Citation — publishing becomes part of the grammar.

2026-09-05

CHRISHAYUK contributes shared film and publication capabilities.

2026-09-06

The specimen book connects its records through Ask, introduces a four-choice act demonstration, and gives newcomers direct routes to forms, examples, evidence and implementation. Its homepage follows the act demonstration with the selection mechanism, measured CHOOSING-1 result and installation, before film and provenance.

2026-09-08

The front door states the practical AI proposition first, demonstrates containers against semantic forms, and restores the recorded lineage from exhibition and cinematic composition to machine-readable acts.

2026-09-09

The homepage restores Give meaning a form and the cinematic exhibition sequence: Space, Time and Scale. The containers-to-acts thesis leads directly into CHOOSING-1 and the act demonstration; the complete archive remains on the origins page. Why, Forms and individual problem chapters gain authored light and dark treatments.

2026-09-09

Each of the 35 form pages gains an authored exhibition study: typographic statements, reader-operated mechanisms and finite performances. Studies distinguish illustrative data from the source-backed library specimens and publication records. Film remains held, with an explicitly labelled storyboard rather than a substituted video.

These entries come from the site's publication history. A Timeline records events; a Ladder governs progression.

INSPECT THE REUSABLE LIBRARY COMPONENT

EVOLUTION

2026-08

Extracted from chrishayuk into its own repository, once a second consumer made copy-pasting the design system the wrong move.

2026-08-29

The vindex3.org build grows the library by fourteen forms in a day, and the three modes get their names.

02 / THE DECISION

An act.
Not a container.

YOU ARE MOVING THE READER ON

Telling what happened, in order.

Does every line carry a date? If they do not, this is prose, not a history.

EXPLORE THE SELECTION GRAMMAR ↗
WHEN THE ACT CHANGES

Provenance

Use Provenance instead when the history belongs to one published object rather than to the subject.

What is the Timeline form in HAUSE, and when do you use it?

The Timeline form is a HAUSE statement — dated entries, in order — history as prose, not a widget. History as prose, not a widget.

THE LIBRARY’S OWN ACCOUNT

Behind the form.

components/forms/Timeline.tsx

History as prose, not a widget.

Dates in accent evidence voice, entries in system voice, and nothing between them: no rails, no dots, no scroll animation. What makes a history legible is that every line carries a date and says what happened, which is a writing problem the design cannot solve for you.

Where a Ladder governs what may happen next, a Timeline records what did. Provenance holds the same facts for one published object.

A statement: the reader reads.

THE STATEMENT’S DISCIPLINE

Every statement is prose in the three voices — editorial for claims, system for explanation, evidence for measurement. Server-renderable, no interaction: the reader reads, and nothing about the form depends on JavaScript arriving.

03 / MAKE SOMETHINGINSTALL HAUSE ↗

Give it your subject.

The opening study is an authored demonstration, not an additional component API. Expand the library specimen above to inspect the reusable form. Its props below come directly from the source.

REACT · Timeline

import { Timeline } from "@chrishayuk/hause/components/forms/Timeline";

export type TimelineProps = { entries: { date: string; text: string }[] };

export function Timeline({ entries }: TimelineProps)

The import and the complete props contract. For installation and composition, follow the Build guide.

NOT INVENTED IN ISOLATION

A page needed this.

Used in vindex3.org and hause.design. These exhibitions share an author; this is evidence of reuse, not independent adoption.

04 / THE PROBLEMNOTHING TO CITE ↗The idea was published. Months later there is a page that has quietly changed, an updated timestamp where a publication date should be, and no version anyone can point at.

PUBLISHED 31 AUG 2026 · REVISED 9 SEP 2026 · VERSION 0.1.0

CITE

source components/forms/Timeline.tsx · site build 3ee5339 · built 2026-09-09

CITE THIS

Web page · 0.1.0

Hay, C. (2026). Timeline — a HAUSE statement. In HAUSE — a design system for AI (Version 0.1.0). hause.design. https://hause.design/forms/timeline

The specimen, the source account and the props share one form record. Cite this page or follow its source identifier to inspect the implementation.