List view and event precision
List view shows every event with its era or timing label and a short description, and can be filtered down to a single storyline or to events flagged as clues. An event's timing doesn't need to be an exact date -- exact dates, relative order ("three days later"), and era labels are all supported, so a story that deliberately withholds the year still gets a working chronology.
Lanes view and storylines
Switch to Lanes view to see events organized into storylines -- parallel threads such as a character's arc, a faction's plot, or a subplot -- laid out side by side. Within a lane, drag an event to reorder it relative to its neighbors in that storyline.
Manage storylines from the same view: add a new lane, rename an existing one inline, or archive a storyline you no longer need. Archiving hides its lane and its filter chip without deleting the events already assigned to it.
Letting AI extract events from your drafts
The Extract timeline action scans the release version of your selected chapters for explicit events -- dated, relative, or era-based -- and flags any it finds that seem to conflict with each other, without trying to resolve the conflict for you.
As with canon extraction, this produces a reviewable list. Nothing is added to the timeline until you accept it, and newly accepted events land in a general storyline you can then reassign.
See it for yourself
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