Yes, you may find yourself cleaning up some unwanted timeline events.
Tell me the new narrative sort option can filter the timeline and subway.
In 3.5, yes. In the Timeline Spreadsheet custom tab type, you can use the Sort function to reorder items by narrative order (rather than the default chronological order). But in my case, I prefer to create a Narrative Spreadsheet custom tab that follows the narrative order by default; indeed, this tab type does not allow switching to the timeline/chronological order.
I should admit that, in 3.5, my preference to create a custom narrative-type tab rather than using the sorting function of a custom timeline-type tab to show the narrative order may be a root cause of my proliferation of custom tabs. I have yet to meet a custom tab I didn’t like, which is probably why I ran out of keyboard shortcuts and had to find this workaround.
Now that I am fluent & confident with AT metadata and the Scrivener sync process, I should, periodically, simply create a new AT project. Perhaps with each draft or manuscript snapshot.
I do that every few days. The reason I don’t obsess about it is that I sync to Scrivener every day. Since my sync includes all of the metadata, I figure if something goes terribly wrong with AT, I can start a fresh project and sync with Scrivener to get all the metadata back. As I have Scrivener set to make a new zipped backup at the end of every writing session (which in turn is redundantly backed up), I think I’m okay not being obsessive about saving AT to a new version.
Wouldn’t it be cool to script that?
Don’t give me ideas! 