You can also change the meta data fields. You can add relationships, character types, event types, etc. Some relationships are equal like "friends" but others aren't like "parent/child." If you say Abby is the parent of Claire, Claire's page will update to say she's Abby's child.Įverything is customizable. When you relate one person with another person, it updates the other person's file with that relationship as well. You can relate items with one another-events happening at places, involving people. When you add events, people, and places to your timeline, you can add in meta-information like motivations and relationships. You can add characters and then check to see how old they were when certain events occurred. Then, within each, create child events that details rises and falls in power, cultural events, plagues, etc. Do you have two rival empires in your world? Create a parent event for each empire that spans its lifespan. You can create long blocks of time and then create events within that long block of time (basically, parent-child structure). You can name your eras, months, and days whatever you like. You can create a year with 18 months of alternating 17 and 18 days each and 3-day weeks. This is one thing you can't edit in later). You can design your own calendar and select the start date for 'today.' You can create five eras, each starting over again at 1 (note: if you do this, do it at the outset. This is a valuable worldbuilding tool with functionality that is not, in my experience, native to any other program. Everything you add is very relational, which makes it easy to remember how different element-events, places, people-work together. It is highly customizable, which means that it will fit your world rather than your world having to be made to fit to it. It works on Windows, Mac, and, apparently, iOS.įor context, this program is helpful both for plotting out the history of a world and also for structuring the timeline of a story. This downloadable bit of software is not free ($65), but I think the price matches its value. I just want to share something cool.Īeon Timeline is all kinds of amazing. Note: I am not affiliated with this company in any way and am not profiting from this review. (The last mentions of it that I saw here were 3 and 6 years ago, as well, so). I didn't see this on the resource list and I think it is amazing, so I wanted to share.
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