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Eric Rhys Taylor edited this page May 2, 2026 · 23 revisions

Advanced workflows for authors who want more.

Pro Mode extends Radial Timeline with deeper analysis, polished exports, campaign tools, and specialized visualization modes. The core writing experience remains free — Pro adds capabilities for authors ready to go further.

This page is also the main reference page for the PRO settings tab.

Early Access: During the Open Beta, all Pro features are available free to early adopters. Your feedback shapes the future of Radial Timeline. When paid licensing launches, early supporters may receive special perks.

What Pro Adds

  • Inquiry+ — Additional custom question slots per zone (up to 7 vs 2 in Core)
  • Runtime Estimation — Screen time, audiobook duration, and manuscript length analysis
  • Advanced publishing layouts — Pro PDF styles, imported LaTeX templates, screenplay, and podcast formats
  • Chronologue Runtime sub-mode — Blue wireframe showing scene runtime duration arcs
  • Campaign Manager — Multiple Author Progress Report campaigns with independent schedules and Teaser Reveal
  • Website Exclusives — Template vaults, Omnibus Inquiry briefings, and guided workflow demonstrations

Runtime Estimation

Runtime Estimator modal with mode selection and progress
Runtime Estimator — select mode and scope for duration analysis

Estimate screen time, audiobook duration, and manuscript length with precision.

Runtime Estimation analyzes your scenes to calculate realistic duration estimates for different content types. Create multiple profiles for different projects or formats.

Capabilities:

  • Screenplay mode — Separates dialogue and action line pacing, with parenthetical timing for (beat), (pause), (long pause), (a moment), and (silence)
  • Novel/Audiobook mode — Unified narration pace calculation for prose content
  • Custom word rates — Fine-tune words-per-minute for dialogue, action, and narration
  • Session planning — Track drafting speed and daily writing minutes for completion projections
  • Scene hover metadata — Runtime estimates appear in scene hover tooltips
  • Chronologue integration — Duration arcs visualize scene length in the timeline

Explicit duration patterns are always parsed when found in your scene content:

  • (30 seconds) or (30s)
  • (2 minutes) or (2m)
  • (runtime: 3m)
  • (allow 5 minutes) — for demos, podcasts, presentations

Settings: Runtime estimation

Advanced Publishing Layouts

Extend the Core publishing flow with extra Pandoc layouts and deeper publishing customization.

Core already includes Pandoc-based PDF export and the bundled Core publishing layouts. Pro adds extra bundled layouts, imported LaTeX templates, and deeper publishing customization.

Supported formats:

  • Screenplay — Industry-standard screenplay formatting
  • Podcast Script — Structured audio content with timing
  • Novel Manuscript — Standard submission format for prose

Configuration:

  • Primary and fallback Pandoc binary paths
  • Imported or duplicated LaTeX templates per format
  • Output to your export folder alongside analysis files

Full guide: Publishing — template catalog, Modern Classic setup, Chapters, Parts, act epigraphs. Settings: Publish

Campaign Manager and Teaser Reveal

Run multiple Author Progress Report (APR) campaigns and reveal your timeline over time.

Campaign Manager lets you manage multiple APR configurations for different platforms (Kickstarter, Patreon, newsletter, website) with independent schedules and export targets. Teaser Reveal adds a progressive reveal system that exposes more detail as your completion percentage rises.

Capabilities:

  • Multiple campaigns - Separate refresh schedules, export sizes, and embed paths per platform
  • Update frequency - Manual, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly auto-updates
  • Refresh alerts - Custom reminder thresholds for manual campaigns
  • Manual reveal options - Toggle acts, subplots, status colors, and percent display when Teaser Reveal is disabled
  • Teaser Reveal presets - Slow (15/40/70), Standard (10/30/60), Fast (5/20/45), or custom thresholds

Settings: Social

Chronologue Runtime Sub-mode

Visualize scene duration in the chronological timeline.

The Runtime sub-mode is one of three sub-modes within Chronologue mode. It replaces elapsed story time with runtime duration arcs. Toggle it using the RT button in Chronologue mode.

Features:

  • Blue wireframe overlay — Distinct from the Shift sub-mode (gray) and Alt sub-mode (red)
  • Duration arcs — Arc length represents estimated runtime, not story elapsed time
  • Runtime cap slider — Adjust the maximum arc size to emphasize shorter or longer scenes
  • Scene selection — Click scenes to compare their runtime visually

Usage:

  1. Enable Runtime Estimation in Settings → PRO
  2. Switch to Chronologue mode (3)
  3. Click the RT button to enter the Runtime sub-mode
  4. Adjust the cap slider to tune visualization

Sub-mode details: Runtime

Access and Entitlement

  1. Open Beta — Pro is active by default during the beta period.
  2. Pro access key — When paid licensing launches, enter your key in Settings → PRO to unlock Pro features.
  3. Core remains free — The core writing, timeline, and analysis experience is always available without Pro.

Pro workflows appear throughout Radial Timeline in magenta.

Questions or feedback? Visit radial-timeline.com/feedback

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