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Recently, the product was redeveloped with “3d” capabilities, which mostly refer to a new layout for online and presentations that shows your timeline in a relief with single events standing out. You can also add images and make some minor adjustments to the visual layout. Just throw in some events along with their dates (and the program does support importing from a few different types of sources including spreadsheets and websites) and the program will pull together a pretty nice looking timeline. Timeline 3d screen with an event editor open The strength of BeeDocs timeline lies in simplicity.

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I was an early adopter of this software and have been using it since version 1.0.

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I’ve gravitated towards two desktop software products for different reasons.īeeDocs timeline ( MacOS only, $25USD / £18.99 or free with a’la carte feature purchasing) was written initially for lawyers. There are a wide array of timeline-makers that are web-based or make for tablets and smartphones, but having tested about a dozen of these, I’d say that none are really worth the effort. As a grant-writer, timelines can also also be a really helpful way of visualising a project, setting milestones, etc.

Over the years I’ve found that the ability to bang out a quick timeline can really help as a handout for students or a visual for your powerpoint while you’re teaching to quick anchor a subject in its context. Because my work is so interdisciplinary, I’m always trying to situate my teaching on a particular text or subject within a historical context. A simple filter system enables you to see all the events affecting a specific entity, or with a specific tag, arc or label.Timelines are an amazingly useful tool. Events may be dragged along the timeline either singly or in groups. Either way brings up a dialogue box for you to enter and adjust details. To create a new event, you either click on the button to create your arc, entity or event, or double click in the right place on the timeline. The reminder of day of the week and time of year is also useful – having given a season for one event, you can clearly see what point in the year other events happen. It’s very easy to combine simple view, arc view and entity view in any combination, to see different parts of your project in detail and check the timeline is feasible. You can also create birth and death events for people, and once you have created a birth event, each event that you link with an entity will keep you informed as to their age – a very useful feature that also helps you avoid linking them to events outside their lifespan.Įach entity may be linked as an observer or a participant, enabling you to keep track of whose point of view the section is to be written in. Again, colour coding plays a large part in planning out your timeline. This enables you to create entities – people or places for example – and link them with the events on the timeline.

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The windows update for this feature is currently in development, and will be made available as a free update when released.Īnother useful feature is entity view.

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You can also provide a link to an external file – in fact the mac versions of Scrivener and Aeon Timeline will link with each other, so you can generate a scrivener file from your timeline and keep the two synced.

Colour coding can be used for different events, and they can be events for a single moment in time or longer events, recorded to within the degree of accuracy you need, whether this is to within the year, the month or even the second.Ĭlicking on any event on the timeline gives access to the details of that event – here you can record which story arc it belongs to, the time and duration of the event and any other details you need. The timeline across the top shows the date, the events are listed in order on the timeline and at the bottom a bar shows how the current view relates to the overall timeline.

Aeon Timeline is very simple to use, while providing many tools that are useful for organising your planning.

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