Exporting Aeon Timeline 3 to Obsidian

[Peter_T]

At the moment, I can read .aeon files, but I cannot write them (in contrast to Aeon Timeline 2 .aeonzip files, which I can synchronize with yWriter, for example).

For details, see this discussion thread:

What is the data format of an *.aeon file?

I would like to try and link/sync an Aeon timeline directly with an external data source (a bit like the Scrivener sync feature). I noticed that the timeline data is stored in a binary file in what looks like JSON format. I would like to create timelines directly from DB data and have changes made in the timeline written back to the DB, without going through an Import/Export procedure. Is this possible, and what would be the right format to read open/read/write the binary *.aeon file?

Currently, in aeon3obsidian.py is a lot of code that is reused from Aeon 3 to yWriter export. This is why the export is limited to a yWriter-like data structure. The development potential therefore lies in exporting all user-defined structural elements and relationships as far as possible.

Another problem, which would also apply to an Aeon 3 internal synchroniser, is that Aeon Timeline has a fixed data structure, whereas Obsidian only has a set of interlinked files with free-form content. I imagine that reconstructing a hierarchy backwards from this would be complicated and error-prone.