The timeline tool for creative thinking. Capture, create and explore ideas.
Get Aeon Timeline Version 1.1
- Version 1.1 is a free update for all existing Aeon Timeline customers.
- Choose "Check for Updates..." from the File menu to access the new version, or download it directly from the website.
- Version 1.1 has been submitted to the Mac AppStore and is awaiting approval before AppStore customers will be able to download the update.
- New customers can purchase Aeon Timeline via our webstore by clicking on the "Buy" button at the top of the page.
Help with Version 1.1
- Our videos page contains several videos demonstrating the new features in version 1.1.
- The User Manual has also been updated for version 1.1. You can download it from our website, or access it from the Help menu of Aeon Timeline.
- The example timelines have been updated for version 1.1, and a new example timeline has been added to demonstrate External Links.
What's new in Version 1.1
External links
- Add links to files stored externally from the timeline.
- Use external links to display images on the timeline.
- Adjust the size of displayed images in Timeline Settings
- Add external links by dragging from Finder, Desktop, or web browser
- Open linked documents directly inside Aeon Timeline using QuickLook.
- Open links in default application from within Aeon Timeline.
Timeline styles
- Existing standard timeline styles (absolute date/time formats)
- Geological style displays only the year and can span millions of years
- Floating weeks style counts in weeks from Week 0 (example date: Monday, Week 4)
- Floating days style counts in days from Day 0 (example date: Day 7, 11:00am)
- Zero hour style counts time forwards or backwards from zero (example date: 01:14:37)
- Set the maximum allowed precision across an entire timeline.
- Custom calendars can also use the new timeline styles.
Event precision and duration
- Decide what precision to use for each event individually.
- Omit time of day, day of month, or month of year.
- Directly enter a duration for an event instead of always calculating an end date
Printing
- Print your timeline across multiple pages
- Adjust the scale of the printed timeline
- Print the entire timeline or specify a date range
- Avoids splitting arcs across pages where avoidable
Better exporting
- Export images exactly as they appear on the timeline.
- Takes into account current settings for zoom, filters, display settings, text sizes, image display, relationship mode toggling.
Measure distance between events
- Hold down Alt-Shift while click-dragging between events to measure the time between the events.
Added "completed" event property
- "Completed" event property can be used to mark events that have been completed (useful for project management).
- Apply to filter to view only completed or uncompleted tasks
Minor changes
- Completely overhauled Timeline Settings window and options
- Changed appearance of right-shifted events when relationship mode is on
- Added ability to show or hide event lines
- Timeline span automatically expands and contracts with added and removed events.
- Right-click arcs and entities to show/hide items
- Right-click entities to sort by name
- Menu option added to bulk-shift events by an exact time amount
- Hold down "alt" while zooming to center on the selected event
- Labels can now be re-ordered in Timeline Settings
- Tags list is now automatically sorted and kept consistent with events
- Labels can now be re-ordered in Timeline Settings
- Added option to increase text size throughout application
- Added option to wrap words on the timeline display
- Improved event flow options to affect vertical ordering of events
- Scrivener synchronization will now look for documents at relative or bookmarked paths as well as absolute paths
- Added separate date formats for year-only, month-only, date-only and date+time events
- Context Bar now only shows events that are visible using the current filter
- Clicking on a relationship line selects an event
- Added dotted lines to show the lifetime of an entity
- Improved application speed for certain calculations
- Plus many bug fixes