I dunno, this doesn’t look like a full-fledged timeline or even any sort of timeline at all – so much as an expansion of the existing corkboard concept into some sort of swimlane (maybe categorizing notecards by metadata)? This seems like a relatively straight-forward evolutionary step – from what we see. Definitely not a replacement for Aeon Timeline…
You’re probably right. Still better than nothing, though.
“Swimlane View.” Yes. We can only hope. 
Wait, has Keith been watching the Olympics? Perhaps we will finally get the Uneven Parallels mode we’ve all been dreaming of, too!
Indeed. A full-fledged timeline would not fit into Scrivener at all, for all the reasons I’ve given in the past. This is a way of using the corkboard to get a different view of what labels are assigned to each document, and to change labels by moving documents between the lines. If you are using colours for PoV in a novel, then you have a sort of story threads view, though. It’s a feature that integrates and fits with the whole, allowing you to get a different view of data that has always been part of the app.
Thank you so much for the hints and quick preview!!! I hope that development is going well.
I’ve seen several posts on FB over the past few months of people loosing data in Scrivener. Is there any attempt to improve “robustness or reliability” (if these are the correct words)? I do not know if the issues were truly bugs or user error. In the later case, perhaps some additional warning messages that can be turned on or off to let users know they are moving data around or inadvertently removing it??
Just some thoughts.
-Tim
Just to say, timj - I’ve been using Scrivener day in, day out for nearly ten years (including Scrivener for iOS over recent months, synced via Dropbox) and I’ve never lost a single word.
Thanks Hugh. I’ve played around with Scrivener, but done nothing serious with it yet. I suspect that most have no issues. But there does seem to be a post every couple of months where someone has lost data.
It very well be user error – Scrivener is a fairly “complicated software” (I think because there is so much you can do.) Thus, people may be doing something incorrect. For example, on FB a recent post was a user whose entire project showed up within the Tutorial?? Kind of weird.
Yes, almost certainly user error. There was a rash of similar cases on this forum a few years ago, and quite plainly the users concerned had gone through the Tutorial and then got straight down to work, forgetting instructions on how to set up a project.
Incidentally, it really does pay to go through that Tutorial pretty carefully before doing any writing in Scrivener (if by chance you have not done so yet). It will probably take you about an hour or so, but Scrivener is somewhat different from some of its potential rivals - for good reasons - and the time and effort involved in getting to understand the Tutorial are well worth it.
Will definitely walk through the videos and the tutorial. I’ve skimmed them.
Some programs offer an “easy mode” and “advanced”. I wonder if that might be a good option for Scrivener – offer an easy mode such that warnings are turned on for any thing that might delete a section, etc.
Just a thought.
The Tutorial is the Easy Mode. Playing through the Tutorial–not skimming–gives new users a comprehensive view of how Scrivener works, and helps them understand its peculiarities are features, not bugs.