Writing a novel with aeon timeline and scrivener

#Writing a novel with aeon timeline and scrivener movie
#Writing a novel with aeon timeline and scrivener update
#Writing a novel with aeon timeline and scrivener full

However, the file output by Aeon is really just xml, so Storyist could likely come up with a way to allow you to open Aeon files in Storyist and copy the data over.

#Writing a novel with aeon timeline and scrivener full

That makes it very unlikely that full integration will happen, as it would require both developers working together (we can hope!). It started out as a small app before getting its own sub-forum at Lit&Lat, where users helped to define scope, and then it was built out to be integrated with Scrivener. I would really love to see this too, but Aeon was written specifically for Scrivener. As it is, all I have to do is glance at it when I'm using Storyist, and if I'm working with beta reader comments in WORD, it's still only a glance away. There are a lot of features I'd like to see in Storyist more important to me than some sort of complicated timeline integration. There is so much data in the Aeon file for the story it really needs a huge monitor and I still end up scrolling from time to time. I have two monitors (Mac 5K + thunderbolt monitor) so I just open Aeon on the 'other' monitor as a ready (move eyes) reference. It's instantaneous, doesn't do anything to disturb my location in the document, and it doesn't pull me out of the zone. There is no better system than moving the eyes. I use EXCEL to define and track the structure of parallel plot threads. I can populate it with all sorts of arcs - important events in real history that need to be integrated into the story, my significant characters life (birth date, education, formative experiences), and so forth. I use Aeon timeline and find it to be an essential tool for writing a contemporary thriller. You can then look down to see which characters are involved in which events - and even turn on features that allow you, for one example, to immediately see the age of each character at the time of each event - and tons of other useful and time saving features. You can then easily create new plot points on the timeline, instantly shift them around, and do all kinds of other things. Or you can zoom way in and see day by day or hour by hour detail of your storyline. In this way you can easily see the whole overview of your story at once no matter how many years (or hundreds of years) it may span.

#Writing a novel with aeon timeline and scrivener movie

The timeline itself moves across the screen horizontally allowing you to zoom in and out of it - in the same way a film editor does in editing programs like Final Cut or Avid where you have the whole movie in a timeline, and can scroll around on it and zoom in and out of different parts to make changes.

Then turn arcs on and off depending on what you look at. You can group them into different arcs like вЂњbackstoryвЂќ or anything else you like. Then you can easily create and move around plot points.

You can enter all your characters (or anything else you want) as вЂњentities'. Several events may occur in a scene and several scenes can be needed for a single event.Aeon Timeline is a simple and extremely powerful tool for tracking plots, arcs, characters, backstory etc. Not all events can be reasonably linked to a document or chapter, and the same is true in the other direction. Oh yeah вЂ¦ you asked if I also link my chapters.

Besides, the original scenario was a Scrivener project with all its Timeline metadata deleted вЂњbehind TimelineвЂ™s backвЂќ so to speak, so thereвЂ™d be nothing to link.Д«ut thanks for the question! I learn something every time. If it HAD worked - with Aeon creating matching events for documents - it would have left out events that were never linked in the first place, including everything I added in the past year. Project sync never creates documents or events, AFAIK. The Timeline was empty and stayed empty, and thatвЂ™s no surprise.

#Writing a novel with aeon timeline and scrivener update

I just now made a copy of the current Scrivener project (full of Timeline metadata, though not for all documents), opened a new Timeline file, opened Project Sync, went through the settings for it, clicked the Update button вЂ¦ and precisely nothing happened.