Truly Simple Timeline was built by a professional author to help keep track of narrative arcs, story beats, and which characters participate scenes across the span of a novel.
It’s customizable to make it useful for all sorts of purposes, though, and its visual, drag-and-drop interface and cross-device functionality makes blocking-out events across centuries or the hours in a single day (and then adjusting those events later, as things progress) easy.
There’s an in-app purchase that allows for an unlimited number of timelines, but all other features are available in free version.
Features:
• Intuitive drag-and-drop interface
• Large-scale arc events (for delineating acts or other macro-scale periods), single-date events, and duration events with beginning and end dates
• Add events one at a time, or add batches of them all at once
• Vertical and horizontal modes on both iOS and MacOS
• All features available for free (paid ‘pro’ version unlocks ability to have more than one timeline going at once)
It’s customizable to make it useful for all sorts of purposes, though, and its visual, drag-and-drop interface and cross-device functionality makes blocking-out events across centuries or the hours in a single day (and then adjusting those events later, as things progress) easy.
There’s an in-app purchase that allows for an unlimited number of timelines, but all other features are available in free version.
Features:
• Intuitive drag-and-drop interface
• Large-scale arc events (for delineating acts or other macro-scale periods), single-date events, and duration events with beginning and end dates
• Add events one at a time, or add batches of them all at once
• Vertical and horizontal modes on both iOS and MacOS
• All features available for free (paid ‘pro’ version unlocks ability to have more than one timeline going at once)
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