I’m a new user, using AT in conjunction with Scrivener to get a handle on my novel outline, which spans three distinct eras. It’s helpful to see dates for my scenes, but I wonder if there is a way to test out alternative narrative structures. I know Scrivener can do this with collections, but TBH I don’t love the way that feature works.
My other question concerns dependencies, which I haven’t tried using yet. In my story, there are things about the character in 1980 that require backstory from 1950 to fully understand/appreciate. I’m trying to find all these plot points that require flashbacks so I can structure the scenes properly. Would this be a good use case for dependencies?
I have windows version of Scrivener, but I find keywords the way to go as tag all the information, characters, locations, themes, flashbacks, red herrings, whatever and then add item categories as needed in Aeon Timeline and then could use filtering in Aeon to create “collections” like in Scrivener and can even do split timeslines to see this. I use text based custom metadata dates to pull in dates into Aeon timeline. I also added a custom text metadata based item called story notes to write notes from Scrivener to Aeon , or in Aeon to Scrivener when sync.
