Guides
Welcome to Aeon Timeline’s Guides! Browse the articles below to learn how to build, organize, and customize your timelines.
A quick tour of Aeon Timeline’s basics. Where to find key tools and how to start adding your first events and items.
Learn how Aeon Timeline’s views help you reuse the same data to see your timeline in different ways.
- Timeline: A visual timeline laid out across time.
- Spreadsheet: A table for easy viewing and editing.
- Relationship: A grid showing how events or items are connected.
- Subway: Parallel tracks that show related events running through time.
- List: A simple, ordered list of events or items.
- Mindmap: A freeform canvas for arranging events, items, and connections.
- Narrative: Cards used to organize your story.
Set up Aeon Timeline to match your project. Item types let you define what kinds of things your timeline contains (events, characters, places, tasks, and more).
Learn the different options for setting up your calendar, the different ways to enter dates in Aeon Timeline, and the settings you can use to customize how dates behave.
Connect Events, People, and More
Learn how relationships work, and how to connect events to people, locations, organizations, and more.
Categorize and Group Events and Items
Keep complex timelines organized. Learn how to view your timeline categorized into groups so it’s easier to sort, browse, and manage your work.
Nest Items and Manage Hierarchy
Create hierarchy inside your timeline using nesting. Learn how to break down large events and tasks into smaller parts using nested items.
See the different ways Aeon Timeline helps you compare what’s happening across different people, story arcs, teams, or projects.
Learn how Aeon Timeline can help you quickly see how much time has passed between events and items.
Manage Dependencies and Event Order
Use dependencies and constraints to control event order, keep sequences intact, and automatically adjust timing when one event shifts.
Attach links, files, and images directly to your events and items, so everything stays connected and easy to find.
Add Notes, Tags, and Extra Details
Aeon Timeline lets you add notes, tags, and extra information to your events and items. These details help you track details, progress, and anything else that matters to your work.
Organize a Separate Story Structure
The narrative lets you create a story-focused order for your project. Instead of organizing events by when they happen, you organize them by how they appear in your story.
Details on how to import CSVs into your timeline.
Exporting, Printing, and Sharing
See the different ways your timeline files can be exported or shared.
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