Radial Timeline

Radial Timeline maps your manuscript in Obsidian. Explore scenes, subplots, story time, and revision progress in four timeline modes, and use Inquiry for AI-assisted analysis across a book or saga.

01YouTube Video Suite02What It Does03The 4 Critical Timelines04Visual Overview05Getting Started

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YouTube Video Suite

Volume	Video	Guide
2	Chronologue Mode	Chronologue Mode
3	Release 6 Overview
4	Inquiry View	Inquiry
5	Author Progress Report	Author Progress Report
6	Gossamer Mode	Gossamer Mode
8	Radial Timeline Community	Community
9	Turn Your Editor’s Notes Into a Revision Schedule
10	Quick Start	Getting Started
11	Turn Your Notes into a Finished Manuscript	Manuscript export
13	Writing a Novel This November? Come Write With Me	Community
14	A Tour of Radial Timeline	Getting Started
Short	Build Your Novel Structure Instantly	Book Designer
Short	Watch a Novel Progress Across Scenes & Subplots

What It Does

Arrange scenes by act, subplot, and manuscript or chronological order. Hover for a synopsis and saved Pulse feedback; highlight a scene across its subplots to follow connected story threads.

The Timetable opens beside the timeline as a table, scene panels, or an outline: review scene properties, write sketches, drag notes into the book, promote notes to scenes, map subplots on a Canvas, and turn a Canvas straight into scenes. Manuscript export also publishes folders and standalone Markdown files.

The 4 Critical Timelines

Radial Timeline™ captures and visualizes all 4 critical timelines:

• Narrative time: the sequence you reveal events to readers.
• Chronological time: when events happen in your story’s world.
• Author time: your scene writing progress with target due dates tracking Todo, Working, Complete and Overdue.
• Progress stages: manuscript revision stages from Zero draft through Press-ready.

Narrative and Chronologue use subplot colors to show story structure. Progress Mode gives each subplot its own ring and colors scenes by writing status and revision stage.

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Visual Overview

Narrative Mode — story beats + subplot rings (dominant subplot shown via folded corners)	Hover synopsis — information-dense metadata + pulse triplet feedback
Progress Mode — schedule/status + progress stage view	Chronologue Mode — story chronology with duration arcs and overlaps plus adaptive time scale
Chronologue Shift — compare elapsed time between scenes and surface discontinuity gaps	Gossamer Mode — compare Momentum, Tension, Activity, and Interiority across beats

Getting Started

• Getting Started — fresh vault setup, existing vault setup, migrating from Scrivener, and the core workflow.
• Book Designer — instantly generate a manuscript set with acts, subplots, and beats.
• Story Vaults — explore Pride & Prejudice, The Odyssey, and Sherlock Holmes, fully analyzed, with no API key needed.
• Radial Timeline View — the four modes at a glance: Progress, Narrative, Chronologue, Gossamer.
• Community and Desk Lamps — share your progress with other writers, and see when your writing friends are at their desks.
• How to — task recipes for reordering scenes, managing subplots, and search.