Timeline View for Databases (Historical)
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River Kenna
My whole life I've been looking for a really good way to just drop historical figures and events into a database and over time build a rich timeline of historical events and figures and patterns. "Aeon Timeline" is the closest I've found, but it would be much better if such a feature could be built in the
same place
as robust notes on the topics of the timeline. Something like this would be a gamechanger.Log In
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Alice Moore
Just want to throw in another market niche here that currently Aeon is one of the only products to do (and not super amazingly well), which is customizable timelines with arbitrary dates.
Why? Fiction. Novel-writing. Game development. All creatives who need to track arbitrary timelines.
Some things that are near-impossible for me to find in tooling:
- Relative timelines (4 days after X event, 5 days before X character dies). These are the most useful for creative planning, as most people don't world-build to the point of putting things on an actual calendar. Rather, meaning in plotlines comes from where are we in relation to this arbitrary thing?
- On that note, it's really nice to see character ages or other arbitrary data that calculates itself relative to dates (maybe this is a formula field, oops). If we're writing a story that has flashbacks, it's great to see immediately that X character is 7 years old in this scene, because it happens at this time.
- Past/future timelines that have an option to change the "today" button to center instead at the center of the events you're working with. Once, I was writing a book that happened in 2012, but the timeline became such a headache to scroll around, because there was no way to quickly get to 2012 without opening the calendar date picker every single time I logged in.
- And of course, arbitrary timelines (though less crucial). A story might use a 28-day calendar based on the moon and have 13 months in a year and wish to reflect that in planning on the timeline.
Just some thoughts. :)
Steffen Bleher
Merged in a post:
Requested Feature: Different Calender levels / unrestricted expandable timeline
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Carolin Schmidt
I'd like to use the calender in multiple ways and have everything connected to time in one place. For that it would be helpful to be able to add a time or time frame without a specific date, to be able to add information just on the more general levels of Months and Years, maybe even centuries too, and being able to change the view of the calender accordingly into a view of all months in a year, all years in a century, a timeline of all centuries from the first personal note to the last without restrictions into the past or future. It would be great to be able to Zoom in on specific days, even hours, and out to a general timeline from the beginnings of our thoughts to their future.
I'd like to be able to navigate my space through such a feature, as would, I think, anyone with a slight interest in the history (of things) or studying humanities. Sometimes we just don't have exact dates, especially going further back in time, but broad frames to locate information in, which I would like to be able to see in context and not forget about.
It would be a dream coming true!!!
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Melanie Moore
Yes, this. I'm using Capacities (and just became a believer after 3 opens!) for building out a plan for a novel. This would be a huge help as I make notes on the ideas I have for various plotlines. Having the ability to link to a timeline for those notes and then move them around would be a huge help.
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Enrique German
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Andie Go
A visual time line would truly be a game changer.
hope you guys are still considering it!
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Faizan Munir Khan
I'm in the same boat and could not recommend it more, never found a timeline builder to add associated details of a event/location/person
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vision assemblies
Timelines are simply the extension / adaptation of the calendar to the 'long now'.
So, their time is rather now than later! ;-)
Steffen Bleher
Great idea, we're both also big fans of timelines, especially in historical context. We'll keep it in mind and it might find its place in Capacities. Let's keep it here to see if other users are also interested in that.