When to use it
Company events, campus events, product launches and conferences. Three preparation tracks run in parallel (venue, programme, materials), promotion overlaps with preparation, and the event day is a milestone.
Making it yours
- Change the event name on the
titleline and the start date on the first task. - Swap the preparation tasks for your event type: booth construction and exhibitor recruitment for a trade show; registration, heats and finals for a competition.
- Add
crit,to highlight a track.
Mermaid code
gantt
title Annual event preparation
dateFormat YYYY-MM-DD
axisFormat %m-%d
todayMarker off
section Planning
Theme and budget :a1, 2026-11-02, 5d
Plan review :a2, after a1, 2d
section Preparation
Venue and vendors :b1, after a2, 10d
Programme and rehearsals :b2, after a2, 20d
Materials design and print :b3, after b1, 10d
section Promotion
Invitations and registration :c1, after b1, 12d
section Execution
Dress rehearsal :d1, after b2, 2d
Event day :milestone, d2, after d1, 0d
section Wrap-up
Settlement and retrospective :e1, after d2, 5dAsk an AI for one with this structure
Send the prompt below to ChatGPT or Claude, then paste the whole reply into the editor; the code inside is detected automatically.
Draw an event preparation schedule as a Mermaid gantt chart with dateFormat YYYY-MM-DD and five sections: Planning, Preparation, Promotion, Execution, Wrap-up. Theme and budget 5 days, plan review 2 days; venue and vendors 10 days, programme and rehearsals 20 days (in parallel with venue), materials design and print 10 days; invitations and registration 12 days; dress rehearsal 2 days and event day as a milestone; settlement and retrospective 5 days. Start on 2026-11-02. Output only the mermaid code block.
FAQ
- A task depends on two other tasks
afteraccepts several ids separated by spaces:Dress rehearsal :d1, after b2 b3, 2dstarts after the later of the two.- The text is too small
Export at 3x or as SVG. Shorten long task names, or split a long timeline into two charts.
- Can I add an owner to each task?
Write it into the task name:
Venue and vendors (Admin, Sam). Mermaid Gantt charts have no separate owner field.
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Updated 2026-09-05