diff --git a/src/client/state/usePrefs.ts b/src/client/state/usePrefs.ts
index 58eb8cd..6f03aa2 100644
--- a/src/client/state/usePrefs.ts
+++ b/src/client/state/usePrefs.ts
@@ -86,6 +86,19 @@ export interface Prefs {
    * A stored pref wins, so shipping this moves nobody's view.
    */
   timelineGroup: TimelineGroup;
+  /**
+   * Whether the board plots events that have not started yet.
+   *
+   * Off by default, and that is a claim about what the board is *for*: it
+   * answers "how does the time I am in lay out?", and a reader with fourteen
+   * lanes has a next patch queued behind every one of them. Plotting those by
+   * default pushes the right edge of the board weeks past today, shrinks every
+   * running bar to make room, and fills the space with things nobody can do
+   * yet. Nothing is lost by leaving them off — the checklist's "Not started
+   * yet" section has listed them all along, and the toggle in the board's
+   * header says how many are being held back.
+   */
+  timelineUpcoming: boolean;
   /**
    * Whether to guess which events repeat daily from what the source printed.
    * Off leaves only the ones the reader marked themselves; it never discards a
@@ -124,6 +137,7 @@ function defaults(): Prefs {
     view: "soon",
     timelineDayWidth: DEFAULT_DAY_WIDTH,
     timelineGroup: "game",
+    timelineUpcoming: false,
     detectDaily: false,
     showCompleted: true,
     showIgnored: false,