Aeon Timeline

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Posted by Paul Korm
Oct 13, 2013 at 04:01 PM

Looks like Aeon Timeline is now available for Windows in addition to OS X. (See it at scribblecode.com.) On Mac, Aeon will sync with Scrivener, but that feature is not yet available on Windows. IMO, Aeon has a better feature set than BeeDocs’ Timeline 3D

Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 13, 2013 at 10:49 PM

Paul Korm wrote:
Looks like Aeon Timeline is now available for Windows in addition to OS
>X. (See it at scribblecode.com.)

Thanks, Paul, it does look interesting. Only just watched the video, so I don’t know if the settings can be changed, but I wish there were more options to characterise the “entities’” involvement in a timeline event than just birth, death, participant or observer. Then this software could be used for other kinds of timeline related analysis than just fiction writing.

We had a discussion about timeline software a while ago:
http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/2503/0/historical-timeline-modelling

Posted by Paul Korm
Oct 14, 2013 at 10:51 AM

I agree—that’s an occasional topic on Aeon’s support forum. There’s a fixed set of entities {object, organization, person, place, project, technology, theory, time span} and each entity interacts with an event as one of {observer, participant, start, end, “none”} with “start” and “end” occasionally having different labels depending on the entity. It would seem that’s a simple entity design scheme to expand on—says me, who doesn’t have to write the software to make that happen ;-)

Dr Andus wrote:
>I wish there were more options to characterise the “entities’” involvement in a timeline event
>than just birth, death, participant or observer.

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