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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



  • 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