Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-4521917-20150810051444/@comment-3279282-20150810123148

Exactly. The Last was called chapter 699.5 => canon. Boruto: The Movie was said to be a continuation => canon. The novels were never stated to be canon. The timeline was specifically made for the novels, it doesn't show how the novels fit into the manga timeline, but how the manga timeline fits the novels. There's also a timeline which shows how the canon movies fit into the canon manga timeline and the novels aren't mentioned there, in that entirely canon timeline. I think that says it all, doesn't it?