diff --git a/src/components/timeline/__tests__/chronicle-model.test.ts b/src/components/timeline/__tests__/chronicle-model.test.ts
index a2e6eec33..445d0b516 100644
--- a/src/components/timeline/__tests__/chronicle-model.test.ts
+++ b/src/components/timeline/__tests__/chronicle-model.test.ts
@@ -256,3 +256,18 @@ describe("standingChips", () => {
     );
   });
 });
+
+describe("notable lines", () => {
+  it("lists one line per kind on a day, however many metrics share it", () => {
+    const tl = fullTimeline();
+    tl.notable = [
+      { date: "2026-08-30", kind: "firstValue" },
+      { date: "2026-08-30", kind: "firstValue" },
+      { date: "2026-08-30", kind: "extremeHigh" },
+    ] as typeof tl.notable;
+    const lines = chronicleEntries(tl, TODAY).filter(
+      (e) => e.kind === "notable" && e.date === "2026-08-30",
+    );
+    expect(lines).toHaveLength(2);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/components/timeline/__tests__/timeline-geometry.test.ts b/src/components/timeline/__tests__/timeline-geometry.test.ts
index 0ea5ad030..e3eee440f 100644
--- a/src/components/timeline/__tests__/timeline-geometry.test.ts
+++ b/src/components/timeline/__tests__/timeline-geometry.test.ts
@@ -763,6 +763,12 @@ describe("label room (v1.42 final)", () => {
     expect(long[1].endsWith("…")).toBe(true);
   });
 
+  it("names a closed period right of its own bar when nothing follows it", () => {
+    const occ = new LineOccupancy();
+    occ.add("1:on", 100, 200);
+    expect(placeText(occ, "1:on", 206, "Away", 1000, 4)).toBe("Away");
+  });
+
   it("keeps a gap before the next mark, cuts a name short, or leaves it out", () => {
     const occ = new LineOccupancy();
     occ.add("0:on", 200, 210);
@@ -819,20 +825,20 @@ describe("label room (v1.42 final)", () => {
     }
   });
 
-  it("never lets two names of one lane line overlap or crowd each other", () => {
+  it("never lets two names of one band overlap, on a row or across two", () => {
     for (const width of [390, 700, 1100, 1600]) {
       const layout = layoutAt(width);
       for (const lane of layout.lanes) {
-        const byLine = new Map<number, ReturnType<typeof boxes>>();
-        for (const box of boxes(lane)) {
-          const list = byLine.get(box.y) ?? [];
-          list.push(box);
-          byLine.set(box.y, list);
-        }
-        for (const list of byLine.values()) {
-          list.sort((p, q) => p.a - q.a);
-          for (let i = 1; i < list.length; i++) {
-            expect(list[i].a).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(list[i - 1].b);
+        // Two names closer than a text line apart vertically share a band
+        // (a row's names and the names above the next row's bars): they
+        // must not overlap sideways either.
+        const all = boxes(lane);
+        for (let i = 0; i < all.length; i++) {
+          for (let j = i + 1; j < all.length; j++) {
+            const p = all[i];
+            const q = all[j];
+            if (Math.abs(p.y - q.y) >= 12) continue;
+            expect(p.b <= q.a || q.b <= p.a).toBe(true);
           }
         }
       }
diff --git a/src/components/timeline/chronicle-model.ts b/src/components/timeline/chronicle-model.ts
index 905ce85c9..d1c7e962c 100644
--- a/src/components/timeline/chronicle-model.ts
+++ b/src/components/timeline/chronicle-model.ts
@@ -211,7 +211,13 @@ export function chronicleEntries(
       }
     }
   }
+  // One line per kind of notable on a day: two metrics seen for the first
+  // time on one day are one "First value" line, not two identical ones.
+  const notables = new Set<string>();
   for (const n of timeline.notable) {
+    const key = `${n.date}:${n.kind}`;
+    if (notables.has(key)) continue;
+    notables.add(key);
     out.push({ kind: "notable", date: n.date, notable: n.kind });
   }
   const laneRank = (e: ChronicleEntry) =>
diff --git a/src/components/timeline/timeline-geometry.ts b/src/components/timeline/timeline-geometry.ts
index e79fd8554..bb95c69c5 100644
--- a/src/components/timeline/timeline-geometry.ts
+++ b/src/components/timeline/timeline-geometry.ts
@@ -242,14 +242,15 @@ export class LineOccupancy {
 
   /**
    * How far right a text starting at `a` may run on `line`: up to `margin`
-   * before the next thing there. `a` itself when `a` is already too close to
-   * something, Infinity when nothing lies to its right.
+   * before the next thing that starts to its right. `a` itself when `a` lies
+   * inside something, Infinity when nothing lies to its right. What ends
+   * before `a` (the mark the text names) is the caller's `fits` to judge.
    */
   room(line: string, a: number, margin = LABEL_MARGIN): number {
     let limit = Infinity;
     for (const [c, d] of this.lines.get(line) ?? []) {
-      if (a < d + margin && a > c - margin) return a;
-      if (c - margin >= a) limit = Math.min(limit, c - margin);
+      if (c <= a && a < d) return a;
+      if (c > a) limit = Math.min(limit, c - margin);
     }
     return limit;
   }
@@ -261,6 +262,23 @@ export const NEIGHBOUR_GAP = 12;
 /** A label cut shorter than this many characters is left out instead. */
 export const MIN_LABEL_CHARS = 6;
 
+/**
+ * A name on one row's line and a name above the next row's bar sit a few
+ * pixels apart vertically: the two lines share a band. Whatever is placed on
+ * one is written into the other too, so the two never stack two names over
+ * each other ("Moved into a bigger flat" over "Away").
+ */
+export function shareBand(
+  occ: LineOccupancy,
+  row: number,
+  where: "on" | "above",
+  a: number,
+  b: number,
+): void {
+  if (where === "on") occ.add(`${row + 1}:above`, a, b);
+  else if (row > 0) occ.add(`${row - 1}:on`, a, b);
+}
+
 /**
  * Put `text` on `line` from `a`: whole when it keeps {@link NEIGHBOUR_GAP}
  * from the next thing to its right and `margin` from everything else, else
@@ -816,6 +834,7 @@ function placeMedicationLabels(
       margin,
     );
     if (placed === null) return false;
+    shareBand(occ, row, where, a, a + estimateTextWidth(placed));
     labels.push({
       itemId: id,
       text: placed,
@@ -942,6 +961,7 @@ function placeLabels(
     if (a < scale.x0) return false;
     const placed = placeText(occ, line(s.row, "above"), a, text, scale.x1 - 2);
     if (placed === null) return false;
+    shareBand(occ, s.row, "above", a, a + estimateTextWidth(placed));
     labels.push({
       itemId: s.item.id,
       text: placed,
@@ -973,6 +993,7 @@ function placeLabels(
       BESIDE_MARGIN,
     );
     if (placed === null) return false;
+    shareBand(occ, row, "on", a, a + estimateTextWidth(placed));
     labels.push({ itemId: id, text: placed, x: a, y: y + 4, strong });
     return true;
   };
@@ -989,6 +1010,7 @@ function placeLabels(
     const a = b - estimateTextWidth(text);
     if (!fitsCard(a, b)) return false;
     if (!occ.tryAdd(line(row, "on"), a, b, BESIDE_MARGIN)) return false;
+    shareBand(occ, row, "on", a, b);
     labels.push({ itemId: id, text, x: a, y: y + 4, strong });
     return true;
   };