Radial Timeline View
The Radial Timeline View is the main authoring and analysis workspace in Radial Timeline. It is where you work directly with scenes, subplots, chronology, beats, and scene-level AI feedback.
Open: Command palette → Radial Timeline: Open, or click the shell icon in the ribbon.
The Radial Timeline View arranges your manuscript as a radial workspace and lets you switch between four modes depending on the question you are asking:
- Progress Mode — drafting status, revision stages, and completion tracking
- Narrative Mode — manuscript reading order and visual scene reordering
- Chronologue Mode — story-world chronology, time gaps, and duration relationships
- Gossamer Mode — beat-level scoring across Momentum, Tension, Activity, and Interiority
Use the Radial Timeline View when you want to:
- write and reorganize scenes
- switch between one book and Saga scope from the title-bar book selector
- compare subplot balance and structure
- check chronology and elapsed time
- score beats and compare Gossamer runs
- review scene-level AI feedback via AI Pulse Triplet Analysis
Each mode highlights a different layer of the same manuscript:
| Mode | Key | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Progress | 1 |
Writing status and revision stages |
| Narrative | 2 |
Manuscript order and subplot structure |
| Chronologue | 3 |
Story-world chronology and duration |
| Gossamer | 4 |
Beat-level scoring and comparison |
See the individual mode pages for full behavior and controls.
The tab title bar includes a book selector. Choose an individual Book Manager profile to focus the timeline on one manuscript, or choose Saga to view all configured books together in Narrative Mode.
Saga scope is intended for multi-book structure checks: act balance, subplot distribution, and series-wide scene order. Other timeline modes remain book-focused.