As a dedicated Scrivener user, I’ve recently delved into OmniOutliner and Aeon Timeline for its purported seamless integration with Scrivener. While the potential of OmniOutliner was immediately apparent, Aeon Timeline’s complexity has given me pause. It’s undoubtedly powerful, but its analytical slant seems less intuitive for the early brainstorming and planning stages of writing. Moreover, navigating its features, especially the outline mode, has been more cumbersome than anticipated, leaving me to ponder if its true value emerges only in the later stages of the writing process.
Have any of you incorporated Aeon Timeline or OmniOutliner into your Scrivener workflow?
Initially, I was focused on establishing the foundational plot and setting the key scenes.
That was my initial research for companion apps.
I understood that syncing Aeon with Scrivener would be beneficial for this purpose. However, upon further reflection, I realized that Aeon thrives on extensive details, which might not make it the best tool for initial brainstorming sessions. So I was just wandering how it is used by the Scrivener people.
FWIW - I use Aeon Timeline as an aid to my Scrivener projects - a lot, my work is in the history of medicine - but I don’t use the integration function at all (that simply wouldn’t work for my use case).
I mention this just to illustrate that although the integration might come at a later stage, the foundational stage you mention could still benefit from non-integrated uses of Aeon: an additional thought and planning tool.
I think you’re right, I guess it depends upon your approach to writing. Personally I’m a plotter and I find Aeon Timeline invaluable, however I can imagine that a pantser, or somebody less analytical, will find little use for it.
