Views

Views

Radial Timeline has two co-equal views in Obsidian. You can open both as separate tabs and move between them depending on whether you are working scene-by-scene or evaluating the manuscript at a higher level.

Radial Timeline View

The Radial Timeline View is the primary visual workspace for scenes, structure, chronology, and beat-level analysis.

Open: Command palette → Radial Timeline: Open, or click the shell icon in the ribbon.

Full guide: Radial Timeline View

Inquiry View

The Inquiry View is the manuscript-level analysis workspace. It focuses on corpus scope, briefings, citations, and higher-level structural questions across a book or saga.

Open: Command palette → Radial Timeline: Open Inquiry, or click the waves icon in the ribbon.

Full guide: Inquiry View

Working with Both Views

The two views complement each other at different altitudes:

• Radial Timeline View — Scene-level work: writing, ordering, tracking status, chronology, beats, and AI Pulse Triplet Analysis.
• Inquiry View — Manuscript-level work: corpus controls, briefings, scene citations, and structural analysis across one book or a saga.

A typical workflow might be: draft and arrange scenes in the Radial Timeline View, then open Inquiry View to check the structural health of your manuscript.

Both views share the same AI provider configuration (Settings → AI) and the same source path, so they always analyze the same manuscript.