Know the timeline wherein you were born. This is always important for the time traveler. You need to know the facts of certain events in your past, or beyond. For instance, wars always differ, as does their boundaries and dates. One key event is the moon landing. Who was the first person on the moon. Heinlein postulated that in all the universes, each one was named after the person who first landed on the moon. Mine (and possibly yours) is Neil Armstrong, in 1969.
Future dates, you will have to discover. Try to pick events that you think might be pertinent. Why pick future events? These are not for general reading by anyone (usually). They are for your reference when you travel to the future. So far, no one seems to be able to travel beyond the date of their death, just as in the other direction, they cannot travel beyond their birth. If you are worried about anyone getting hold of your list, keep it in your head. Or provide false dates and names on your list that stand for true dates and names that only you know about. However, I see no benefit to hiding anything. What can anyone do about future dates? (I know, they can make book on them. Good luck with that.)
It is good for the time traveler to personally verify each of these dates when you make your own timeline. First, it gives you something to do when you time travel. Second, it gives you a set of goals to work toward, knowing how things will work out. Third, if somehow things are not working out as you remember, that means that someone has screwed up your time line. You will need to fix these things, if that is the case.
What about traveling to other timelines? You can know if you are in another timeline just by asking who was first to the moon. That is, if such questions are permitted, and if there is anyone left to ask. It is a pretty good indicator to you, if you end up in a timeline that is not yours where such questions are not allowed, or nobody knows, or if there are no people around to ask. You likely will not spend much time in such places anyway. Try to always look before you leap, just in case you need to rescue yourself from such a place. Always try to follow the rules of time travel (a previous chapter).
1945 Roger is born in Maysville Kentucky.
1969 Neil Armstrong is the first person to walk on the moon.
1978 Roger marries his dear wife.
1984 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak introduce the Macintosh computer.
1992 Jonathan Ive joins Apple Computer Corp.
1994 Roger’s cancer is discovered, and tumor removed.
1995 Roger dies from undiscovered cancer (alternate timelines)
1997 Steve Jobs returns to Apple.
1999 Roger begins writing science fiction for mymac.com
2004 Steve Jobs diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
2007 Roger discovers time portals and timelines.
2008 Roger uninvents time travel by removing the source of its discovery
2010 Roger1 comes home after being lost in time.
2015 The war with the Story Writers is concluded.
2018 Stevo and Mary’s race overcome their world dictatorship.
2025 The Ringship is discovered at a Lagrange point in the moon’s orbit.
2028 Stevo kills the Virtual World Wide Net and enters Mary’s world.
2032 Man’s first interstellar flight takes place on the Ringship.
2035 Mary’s race begin to freely distribute Nanocytes to Mankind.
2042 The locations of 50 known habitable worlds are given.
2062 The means of Time Travel through portals is openly revealed.
2065 Portals are modified for many uses, including stellar travel without ships.
2100 The world’s population falls below a billion, due to off-world expansion.
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