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Welcome to the Radial Timeline Wiki!

Radial Timeline™ transforms your manuscript into a live visual map where you can see your entire story structure at a glance.

Radial Timeline Release 6 overview of new features

Release 6 Overview
Overview of New Features

YouTube Video Suite

Volume 1 Intro

Original Radial Timeline introduction video

Volume 1 Intro
Original home page walkthrough

What It Does

Radial Timeline™ arranges your scenes by act, subplot, narrative or chronological order in a striking radial layout—revealing the structure, rhythm, and scope of your story. Each ring represents a subplot; hover interactions surface important details like scene synopsis and AI story pulses. Scenes highlight across subplots to show interrelationships. Multiple modes dissect your novel like an X-ray.

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 keep subplot colors front-and-center so you can compare structure without workflow noise. When you need to see Todo/Working/Overdue status or progress stage colors, switch to Progress Mode — the combined outer ring is replaced by a single-subplot view and scenes inherit the author-status and progress-stage palette.

Visual Overview

Narrative Mode: all scenes outer ring, subplot rings, and story beats (e.g., Save the Cat)
Narrative Mode — story beats + subplot rings (dominant subplot shown via folded corners)
Hover synopsis: metadata + AI pulse triplet analysis (previous/current/next)
Hover synopsis — information-dense metadata + pulse triplet feedback
Progress Mode: author status (Todo/Working/Overdue/Complete) and progress stage colors
Progress Mode — schedule/status + progress stage view
Chronologue Mode: scenes ordered by When/Duration with overlaps and adaptive time labeling
Chronologue Mode — story chronology with duration arcs and overlaps plus adaptive time scale
Chronologue Shift mode: elapsed-time arc between selected scenes and infinity gap markers
Chronologue Shift — compare elapsed time between scenes and surface discontinuity gaps
Gossamer Mode: beat-level scoring with multiple signals, saved runs, and momentum ranges
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.
  • Radial Timeline View — the four modes at a glance: Progress, Narrative, Chronologue, Gossamer.
  • How to — task recipes for reordering scenes, managing subplots, search, and rotation.

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