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

Release 6 Overview
Overview of New Features

YouTube Video Suite

• Welcome: Original home page intro video
• Chronologue-Mode: Chronologue Mode Volume 2
• Views: Overview of New Features
• Inquiry: Inquiry View Volume 4
• Author-Progress-Report: Author Progress Report (APR) Volume 5
• Gossamer-Mode: Gossamer Mode Volume 6

Volume 1 Intro

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-Mode and Chronologue-Mode 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.

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Visual Overview

Narrative Mode — story beats + subplot rings (dominant subplot shown via folded corners)

Hover synopsis — information-dense metadata + pulse triplet feedback

Progress Mode — schedule/status + progress stage view

Chronologue Mode — story chronology with duration arcs and overlaps plus adaptive time scale

Chronologue Shift — compare elapsed time between scenes and surface discontinuity gaps

Gossamer Mode — compare Momentum, Tension, Activity, and Interiority across beats

Getting Started

• Welcome: Opening Radial Timeline in an empty vault greets you with a quick-start guide.
• Fresh-Vault-Onboarding: Start from scratch with Book Designer and beats.
• Existing-Vault-Onboarding: Connect an existing manuscript to Radial Timeline.
• Migrating-from-Other-Apps: How Obsidian’s markdown workflow differs from traditional writing tools.
• Book Designer: Instantly generate a manuscript set with acts, subplots, and beats.
• Core Workflows: Learn the basics of Radial Timeline.
• Timeline-Modes: Compare Progress, Narrative, Chronologue, and Gossamer at a glance.