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Timeline Software

TheMirrorMage

Journeyman
Just posting to bring people's attention to a great program which allows you to make timelines. It's not designed for a fantasy novelist, but it's still a great thing to use to organise story events and build up an idea of what's going on in your world, and more specifically, when it's happening. Download it here: The Timeline Project.

If you have multiple POVs, it's near-essential and fits that type of writing perfectly, with custom event colours so you can sort events into different characters. It works on a Gregorian calendar, so there's no customising the hours in a day, or days in a week, etc sadly. It's also limited to the time between 10AD and 9,989AD for some reason, but it works for me.

I've been using the software for writing my most recent story, as well as organising family history research, so I'm fairly used to the program. If you need any help feel free to post a reply here, and I'll do my best to try and answer your questions

Hope it helps!
 
Oh wow...thanks for bringing this up. I could really use this thing to do plotting for my original work and figuring out how everything fits in a timeline.
 

Anniekins

Apprentice
Hi, newbie here. first i'd like to thank Themirrormage for the post they made about timeline software...while i didnt actually choose that one in the end... it brought to my attention programs that aid us with our work. I did find this one. it's free and ive found it extremely good, but it is the first program ive used so maybe some of the more experienced people could agree or disagree.
XMind: The Most Professional Mind Map Software
 
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